Companies
Export Audits
Performing a similar audit as for the market due diligence with the difference that forthcoming actions will be implemented by the company individually
Target market and partner identification / entry preparation
- Improve the company’s capacity to identify suitable [new] export markets vis-à-vis the products / services offered
- Improve the company’s capacity to understand, identify and approach target market partners
Product / service and process adjustments – Certification management
- Support the company to offer suitable products and services on the selected target market
- Increase the company’s capacity to adjust its production / manufacturing processes according to the requirements in the [new] target market
- Increase the certification capacity of the company be means of analysing the operation and the existing portfolio / make adjustments according to the requirements in the [new] target market
Communications
- Capturing the company’s external communication portfolio
- Improve a company’s capacity to developand use state of the art communication tools vis-à-vis the requirements in the [new] target market (electronic, print etc.)
Intermediaries / national ministries and agencies
Structural support
- Creating a new intermediary organisation: Statues, membership, service portfolio etc.
- Analyse the operational structure of existing intermediaries to establish coreareas of intervention
- Adjust existing / propose new business support structures, services and sources of revenue
- Create new / consolidate existing [international] network structures
- Adjust existing / elaborate new [external] communication concepts and tools
- Introduce adequate ITC tools and solutions
- Legal advice: Adjust existing/introduce new guidelines for internal procedures, KPI, etc. / preparation and processing of call for tenders etc.
International Market Cooperation
- Adjust existing / elaborate new concepts for participation in international trade fairs – programme implementation, trade support (see ‘market actions’)
- Adjust existing / elaborate new member [export promotion] services
- Create strategic partnerships worldwide, culminating in the creation of formal cooperations and concrete joint projects
- Plan, establish new or enhance existing foreign commercial representations
- Lobbying for conducive market access in target export markets / receiving preferential market access status (e.g. EU GSP, AGOA etc.)
Foreign Direct Investment
- Resource analysis (offer / incentive)
- Elaboration and development of FDI portfolio
- Identification and reaching-out to potential investors worldwide
- External communications
