Sme mapping and engagement

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Delivering effective SME-based Regional Job Strategies


The SME Job Creation Proposition

The best way of retaining and building high value jobs lies with a Region’s growth SMEs


What do SMEs have to do?

• To create sustainable jobs, SMEs have to lift their activity levels (Sales) through investment in new business development;

• To achieve a sustainable growth rate of ≥10% pa, SMEs need to invest up to 10% of annual Sales in:• Identifying and validating additional business opportunities;• Making the best of these market-ready;

• And, they need to spend another 10% of annual sales on marketing and selling their existing and new offerings.


Effective Strategies

Success requires :• Identification of SMEs;• Engagement of SMEs ;• The direction of appropriate support to them so

they can make investments in the right areas of business growth – and are willing to do so;

• Appropriate levels of expert service provider support.


Which brings us back to the SME Regional Jobs Pyramid

Set Key Industry, other Strategies

Set Regional Job Goals

Garner Stakeholder Commitment

Jobs

Project Evaluation

Support local growth community

Support targeted SMEs

Identify Growth SMEs

Jobs

Sustainable Growth


To Strategy Implementation

Set Key Industry, other Strategies

Set Regional Job Goals

Garner Stakeholder Commitment

Jobs

Project Evaluation

Support local growth community

Support targeted SMEs


Jobs

Sustainable Growth


Voyager Strategies helps you implement effective strategies



We help you research Key Industries, or other SME groupings, to identify growth SMEs and their growth requirements.

This provides you with target companies whose potential investment decisions can lead to the achievement of your job targets.


Engage and Support Targeted SMEs

We help you engage the targeted SMEs.

And, to provide them with initial services to orient them towards winning support from other providers and thus leveraging your investment.


Support Local Growth Community

We can work with local expert service providers to deepen the pool of skills locally available – and thus accelerate local progress.

We can help you set up a local growth community bringing together like-minded SMEs and competent experts.


Project Evaluation

We ensure all projects are undertaken against milestones with KPIs set. We report at agreed intervals against these.

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