The Book of Practical Inventing
FINNbiz Consultants’ Alan Finn has co-authored, project managed and edited a book with the Wessex Round Table of Inventors (WRTI), a group based at Southampton Solent University. The WRTI’s Book of Practical Inventing describes all the phases of new product...Read More →
The Richmond Group re-invigorates!
The Richmond Group of independent consultants (RG) – of which FINNbiz Consultants is a member – began a process of re-invigoration at meetings on May 10th & June 14th at the Hilton Hotel in Cobham, Surrey. A body of the membership...Read More →
Sales IS a part of marketing
Summary: Frequently, I see confused comments in the business press about the place of sales among all the different disciplines in business, and, in particular, with regard to Marketing.However you view sales, it is always an integral part of the...Read More →
Just what is Marketing?
Summary: So very often, I read or hear business-to-business organisations describing the business discipline of marketing in terms which relate only to marketing communications, such as advertising. What about all the other marketing activities such strategy, market and competitor research,...Read More →
Smaller, often technical, businesses misjudge the difficulties and importance of marketing
Summary: Smaller, often engineering and technical businesses frequently misjudge the difficulties and importance of marketing in the new product development cycle. They assume that the technical development of the product is the hard part and that taking it to market...Read More →
Writing books
Alan Finn has been writing, editing and project managing a book about inventing and new product development, the Book of Practical Inventing, for the Wessex Round Table of Inventors (WRTI), a group based at Southampton Solent University. Bookboon.com (see: http://bookboon.com/blog/en/bookboon-com/),...Read More →
FINNbiz Consultants and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Alan Finn for FINNbiz Consultants was invited to a meeting at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London on Wednesday, June 11th, 2014. Subsequently, FINNbiz Consultants are registered now as consultants with EBRD to tender for international...Read More →
Increase sales thru’ business partnerships with UK companies
Why don’t more US-based companies exploit our common language and try to increase their sales through business partnerships with UK companies to enter UK markets and /or those on mainland Europe? The UK’s economy is beginning to boom right now. Money that...Read More →