Formulate, evaluate and promote business projects

Tons of tools, tips and techniques to evaluate and promote any project from scratch. Learn how to leverage the power of the latest technologies and collaboration tools available to become a serial business developer.

About this book

How do successful people take ideas from scratch and transform them into valuable assets that create huge benefits?. How can they do this multiple times and replicate the success over and over again?. How do they manage to find the right people to partner to develop and promote a project?. How do they identify value on things that no one ever thought of?.

No matter what your background is or who you are working work for, you are always providing at least a piece of a business plan that someone else ideated.

  • Wouldn’t it better if you could learn how to formulate, evaluate and promote complete project packages?.
  • How many projects would you be able to create using your unique knowledge and expertise?.
  • How could you link those skills with the many technologies and collaboration tools available out there to generate multiple successful projects over and over again?

Disruptive technologies, smarter customers and an increasing market of global and local competitors have redefined how products and services are developed, marketed and measured. No matter a company’s size or industry, new creative ideas and solid, well-crafted projects are necessary to preserve value creation and permanence.

Most people know many things about businesses and projects but they normally lack a formal understanding of how business decisions are interconnected to each other or how to generate ideas with commercial potential and move them through the corresponding evaluations up to implementation and development mode. But, among so many different business opinions and noise out there, what approaches should I follow?, how can you learn different tools that can be put together to promote projects of any size and at any location?

This book does exactly that for you.

In Project Developers 2.0 we have combined handpicked tools and techniques developed by the most brilliant minds in the industry, with the real life experience of our business development teams and different technologies available today, to create a systematic approach that will take any business initiative from scratch to the implementation stage

At Innovatar and TurnKeyMasters, much of the day-to-day work and research of our Development Team and our Business Plans Assistance Program (BPA) focuses on formulating, evaluating and promoting new investment projects. Likewise, the unique experience of Innovatar Connections on managing collaborative business networks around the world provides a perfect complement to take the business development process to the next level: Business Networks.

This book is based on the extensive experience of both companies and a rigorous analysis of many successful cases from our projects database.

The result is a comprehensive guide that will take the readers step-by-step through the stages of creating new project opportunities, making them financially viable and implementing a cost-effective promotion plan.

Different tools available to everyone such as Microsoft Excel, Google Maps and Google Trends are built-into the book as a normal part of the process for market research, demand forecasting and location decisions.

In essence, this book is aimed at bridging the gap between a business-related person, and a professional business evaluator, capable of successfully undertaking different projects of varied nature.

"The content of this book was born right from the trenches. It is based on our own experience promoting industrial projects, as well as an extensive research on the best practices of the most recognized consulting firms and personalities in the industry such as McKinsey, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, Black and Veatch and others."

Who should read this book?

Wherever there is a human need, there will be a business opportunity

Areas of application

The book includes a systematic approach which is followed throughout all the chapters, to move any project idea from the initial evaluation stages through a complete strategy development, feasibility study and a successful implementation:

  • If you have unique knowledge and experience in your field this book provides you a complementary knowledge about how to use different tools and techniques to generate your own project ideas and take them through development and implementation.
  • If you have ever though of taking a online business offline we show you how to craft your strategy and helping you select the best locations for your projects (industrial, retail or services), the right size or how to develop an organizational chart for performance and growth.
  • Conversely, the book also details "in depth" how to implement a complete online strategy for companies which mostly operate offline, including some tricks to generate traffic and buzz around the web for pennies a month. As a bonus, we include a blueprint of the online strategy used to promote the book itself.
  • The books covers in an extensive manner the application of multiple approaches to define the characteristics and features of new products based on specific data to be collected and techniques that have been successfully proven in other industries.
  • For companies that own products but want to open new markets for them, the book explain how to implement a successful promotion strategy overseas (without even traveling), how to identify markets, find local representatives and how to prepare a complete export plan.
  • For Software, Mobile App and Videogame companies, the book explains how to craft powerful product definition, platform and design strategy, how to dimension the work and how to size each step of growth. 
  • The book includes a step-by-step process to develop a cost-effective marketing plan, leveraging the power of the many online collaboration tools to create buzz online.
  • Practically any company would love to have its own IT platform, a proprietary website with background processes that generates valuable information and connect with customers and suppliers, or even having its own software or mobile applications to manage the particularities of the business. For that reason, we have devoted a whole section to explain how companies can do that for a just couple of dollars a month by outsourcing the technical side of their business (for as low as two dollars per hour).
  • The same outsourcing model may be used to develop projects for customers so the book also explains how to do that in an efficient manner and how to manage whole empire of multiple projects, teams and people using online Project Management tools (for as low as US$ 24.99 a month).

Here some examples...

New Product Development

To define product characteristics and expected performance of the product, taking into account the current knowledge about competitors and markets as well as the production process that will be implemented.

Learn how to use BOS techniques in combination with multiple checklists and surveys in order to identify the features that will help the product disrupt the market at the customer level, and how to use Google SketchUp and MakerBot to create a physical representation of practically any product. Also, how to develop the product business model, select the price to consumers and set the maximum costs allowed to lock down the profits in the long term.
Market Research

Collect relevant information about Competitors, Products and Suppliers as the platform of a good strategy development process and implementation.

See what happens when the best of Porter meets the data collection systems and market intelligence services available out there today. Learn where to find critical information about competitors, their people and product development processes online, including potential partners overseas. Also, how to automate the collection of information which is the ultimate component of the competition intelligence system, and how to create powerful in-house sales forecasting using the many free add-ons included in Microsoft Excel.
Project Location Decisions

Choose the right location for a project manufacturing, retail or service operations no matter what country or region the company is targeting.

How to identify the elements that make a location a competitive advantage to any business. Learn how to use demographic information available online to develop a profile of potential customers, and how to use Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Warehouse to make a 3D representation of the project location and to learn about the potential competition. Learn how to analyze maps to identify traffic patterns and how to develop a layout of the installation distribution.
Finding Partners

The current production capability, combined with the global reach and standard “commerce” language provided by the internet and all of its web technologies have produced a powerful global platform, in which finding a company to manufacture your products or supply raw materials is as easy as buying a book from Amazon.

Learn how to use Alibaba, and other B2B directories online to find the right partner to manufacture your products or for the supply of cheap raw materials. Also, how to find local companies that will negotiate prices, check orders before they are shipped and manage payments from you.

Going beyond the existing demand

Believe it or not, but many products have the capability of being successfully promoted in markets that were not attainable or thought of in the past. All you need to know is how to get the information to pre-evaluate those markets and the contacts that will help you make it happen.

Learn how to identify markets overseas where the products can be sold, and how to find the right partners to do it. We have even developed a complete website solely dedicated to help readers find partners overseas, to contact official representatives in the target country embassies and for finding information about local markets and business environments

 

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