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To successfully drive our growth, our services are deployed through five strategic business units as represented in the diagram above. Brief descriptions of each are documented below:
Under both Ventures and Business Advisory units, we provide the following services:
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Ventures and Business Advisory – Financial Services & Payments
We offer ventures and business advisory services in specialized areas involving: |
Financial Services & Payments:
We are in the business of providing advisory and company set up services for the Financial Services & Payments Markets and aim to build and transform financial services & payments businesses for phenomenal success.
Non Financial Services: We provide advisory and enterprise building services to new and existing businesses outside the Financial Services sectors. We create value for our clients by providing a one-stop-shop for enterprise building while also ensuring delivery of workable business solutions.
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Under both Ventures and Business Advisory units, we provide the following services: |
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Strategy Development: NEXTZON is passionate about working with clients to articulate and implement appropriate winning “Blue Ocean Strategies". |
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Business Modeling and Business Plan Development: Part of our knowledge/solutions offering involves assisting entrepreneurs, start ups as well as existing businesses in developing bankable business plans, models and strategies that will position them for phenomenal success. |
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Mergers and Acquisition & Privatization: Provision of business case and post-acquisition modeling and strategy development as well as assisting with overall acquisition strategies. This also covers bidding assistance, due diligence and documentation as well as target sourcing and negotiations. |
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Regional & International Expansion:We work with our clients (typically well established organizations) to successfully and speedily enter attractive regional and international markets. |
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Group Integration: This service involves working with diversified and diversifying groups and conglomerates to develop operating models which allow them to benefit from scale economies and sharing. |
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Others:Other services in this area for public sector entities include:
- Economic Development Planning
- Institutional Capacity Development
- Economic & Investment Promotion & Development
- Entrepreneurship development
- High Performance Bureaucracies
These are services are delivered in strategic partnership with a top ten global management consulting firm.
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E-Business
We offer clients the know-how to remodel their operations and business services using technology, e-payment and other e-business functionalities. This complements work done in all the other areas and also provides us a platform to support the nation in the ongoing e-government initiative. Our services include: |
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E-Payments Consulting: Our e-Payments practice focuses on conceptualizing and implementing world-class e-Payments products, systems and ventures. We work with our clients and other market leaders to develop industry-redefining e-Payment models and systems. |
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eBusiness Advisory: We design, develop and implement winning e-Business concepts, models, processes and solutions. We aim to accentuate operational effectiveness and capacity by automating back office and core business processes for our ventures and clients. |
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eGovernment Advisory: We leverage our deep technology competence and sound business management skills in developing and implementing appropriate e-Government systems, operating models and strategies for public sector entities. |
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Enterprise Portal Design & Development: We design and build enterprise software systems for clients. Our solutions include enterprise work flow systems, collaborative platforms and sales and marketing portals. |
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e-Venturing:We originate or collaborate with entrepreneurs to create new technology businesses designed for blue ocean markets particularly in the shared platform/shared services technology space. |
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VENTURES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Our team offers entrepreneurs and business persons an end to end service to support start up ventures. This is achieved through the following service offerings: |
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Business Incubation: We provide a shared business environment which covers provision of shared incubator/office space and infrastructure, shared corporate services, etc. This has the effect of significantly reducing the commencement costs for start-ups. To facilitate the operation of this incubator, NEXTZON has in the past enjoyed the support of the World Bank via benefiting from one of their grants for Business Development Service providers. |
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Fund Raising: As part of NEXTZON's one stop enterprise development solutions, the VDM unit also supports companies in the incubator as well as third parties in raising venture funds for their businesses from high net worth individuals and corporate financiers. |
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Strategic Business Oversight: In our experience, a key factor in the performance of early stage businesses is the quality of management the business can access. In view of this, VDM, as part of the enterprise development package provides management oversight service to businesses in the incubator and third party businesses. |
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Management Buyouts: Supporting management teams with proven track record to take over the businesses they manage by working out creative funding structures and raising funds for buyouts. |
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SMALL BUSINESS ADVISORY
Our team provides a defined Institutionalization and Capacity building program that helps SMEs understand the concept of business management as well as introduce the concept of organizational learning and knowledge management as a strategic advantage. Our approach focuses on ensuring a healthy pipeline of viable SMEs ready to move to the next level as they institute best practices in business management.
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BUSINESS SUPPORT SERVICES:
Under this segment of the business, we work with start-ups or informally managed businesses to create institutions that are 'Built To Last'. This covers enterprise transformation, leadership development, succession planning, executive & general recruitment services and formalization of business management. As part of our institutionalization and advisory services, we also offer business process development which is designed to articulate a concrete roadmap for the efficient running of critical operations of a business. This is achieved by a thorough evaluation and understanding of the organization's business model, its focus and its expected performance standards along agreed indicators. Our assessment of the internal and external peculiarities, married with institutionalized best process practices in relevant areas cumulate into a process design that allows for effective and efficient business operations. Where required, we also offer capacity building programmes under the IFC Business Edge and SME tool kit frame work in respect of which we are IFC (provisional) franchisees.
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