Client

Mission

 HBO Network's role

Countries concerned

Regional study on the participation of local SMEs in public markets in the UEMOA (Western Africa)

 2011

A team of 14 consultants (7 African nationals and 7 French consultants) are working on this mission

Benin

Burkina Faso

Cote d’Ivoire

Guinee Bissau

France

Mali

Niger

Senegal

Togo

The challenge of the study is to formulate solutions regarding the legislation, the regulation and actions to support the private sector which will contribute to the improvement of the presence/set up of SMEs in public markets.

The process targets:

·  The diagnosis of SMEs positioning in public markets

·  The proposals and recommendations on a national, communal, regional level

·  The elaboration of a communication strategy

Elaboration and implementation of a prospecting strategy for foreign Investors for the benefit of the Hauts-de-Seine (France) 2011-2015

Mobilization and framming of HBO partners in the targeted countries Implementation of prospection tools

Carry out the prospection in the targeted countries

France

USA

UAE

India

China

Japan

The mission consists in:

·  Strengthening the department's visibility and emophasizing on its attractiveness to potential Investors from the USA, UAE, India, China and Japan

·  Prospecting in key sectors of the department, notably in the ICT/numerical field, financial services and services for companies

International prospecting for the Ontario (Canada) province 2007-2009

Mobilization of HBO partners for the search of projects and participation in fairs 

Canada

France

United-Kingdom

Germany

In the perspective of reinforcing its Lifes Sciences pole (3rd pole in North America) :

·  Prospection in France, the United-Kingdom and Germany in the Life Sciences sector

·  Detection of potential projects and presence in European fairs

·  Obligation to honour contract objectives

Definition of a strategy in the economic and territorial development of the Namur province (Beligium) 2011

Use of the network's expertise

Belgium

Need of a prospective analysis of the territory to define the strategy and positioning in the medium term

through :

·  Territorial and economic diagnosis on the basis of a documentary analysis and working seminars emphasized on the exploration of actors and companies on the territory

·  Prospective analysis of sectorial and technological issues regarding the availability of resources and roles played by major actors

·  Definition of a territorial development strategy in the medium term

·  Proposal of an operational action plan

Research of industrial load 2009-2010

Industrial prospection

United-Kingdom

Germany

Spain

Israel

Canada

Scandinavia

Sagemcom missioned us in the international prospection in the collection of industrial load sub-contracted or in partnership with products with high added-value 

through : 

·  Definition of a prospecting strategy

·  Implementation of the prospection in targeted countries

·  Engineering of the implementation and assistance in negotiations

Forecasting approach : search of alternative solutions to the "employment protection scheme" and outsourcing of activities 2010-2011

Research of partners and buyers

 World

The Board would like to be assisted in its upstream approach on the research of alternative solutions to the "employment protection scheme" for the benifit of its employees : 

·  Research and identification of alternative projects

·  Assistance in the implementation of selected projects