Consulting

There has been a growing demand in consulting services among businesses and public sphere in the Post-Soviet states. Such services are usually offered by large network consulting agencies working with their clients on the basis of long-term contracts with monthly billing as well as surcharges for extra activities such as training, event management, media planning. The agency work is very effective in all times unless the client loses contact with the agency team - a dubious yet not so rare situation. It is also worth mentioning that even the most successful agency is unable to cater all the services its client might need, and there is no consulting agency that would advise its client to inquire to the competing company.

We are different. We are not afraid of competitors, because we have virtually no business rivals - instead of fighting them we work with them. We are really flexible: for the benefit of our client we are ready together with your present consulting team, work undisclosed or even to replace them on the go. Moreover we can keep our cooperation in secret allowing you to use and present our results as your own.

In exchange we expect you to meet our principles: to know the customer and to respect and value the intellectual produce of our experts.

We build a team of experts for each of our projects, and our main task is to work for the client and his needs. The team may include professionals from large agencies, freelancers, academics and other experts. The team members know the team leader, the client and each other of course. It depends on the client whether to inform anyone about the team and its work for him or to keep it private. In specific cases we keep some of the experts working in our team undisclosed, because such an approach allows us to work with the main people who never admit being in consulting business.

We work with well known experts who have a credible professional and social record. Besides, we established long-lasting cooperation with consulting agencies and expert communities from Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Czech Republic, and United States.

A well-built team of professionals in business and political analytics, PR, and GR becomes an important part of almost any business nowadays. Let us show it on a model. Imagine a middle-sized company specializing in mining operations and exports from the CIS countries. One day the economic crisis widely spread across the industry as a whole hits such company and makes is very vulnerable financially for a period of time.

What challenges will appear for such a company?

• A) Aggressive competitors will inevitably use the moment to bite and takeover the company. Such an alert demands not only to monitor the mass-media in order to defend the business from hostile attacks but also to build a friendly media coverage in the national press, on TV and Radio, in e-media as well as in the professional media that is always very well informed and affect the industry directly.
• B) Industry analysts will notice the company's problems even before the management and shareholders and creditors. Their negative feedback will change the attitude of investors and banks, and make the price of money for the company much higher than before. Professionals know how easily a bad report or just a comment at the telephone conference can ruin the company rating or that of its bonds. Experts say that an industry analyst is very often affected not only by the industry news and insider's knowledge, but also by the general media coverage of the company, lack of news from the regions the company works, negative image of top-managers.
• C) Once the problems appear they make harder to keep close and trustful relations with the authorities, and there is a great demand in GR experts who can maintain a link between the company and the political decision makers firm.
• D) Uncertainty and readiness to leave among the employees and senior management. Such feelings are always present even in the most stable companies, and they grow with enormous speed once the company faces problems. Many top-managers and average employees loose faith in the ability of the company's bosses and owners to overcome the difficulties and reach calm waters. Not all of the, will leave the company: there is always about a quarter of the alarmists who try to get in contact with competitors or even raiders, and 20 percent of the rest will look apathetically at the company's collapse. Staff training and evaluation may be an answer.

The company we described is just a model. In real life most of the companies haven't got their own anti crisis team and they really need to call for external help. We can build a team of experts that would work in accordance with the model of management of your company.

The story will be incomplete if to omit the pricing of our services. We are deeply persuaded that an expert with a credible professional record deserves a compensation big enough to make him work on our projects putting away all the other work and even some personal needs. The compensation is big enough, but not as big as your costs will be once you decide to work with a traditional consulting agency. When you pay to the agency you cover all its costs including the salary of managers, support staff and even office rent. The experts working for you at the agency will receive from 12 to 65 percent from the bill you pay. Our calculations show that working with the network like JEEN you will save permanently from 30 up to 50 percent of what you pay for a traditional agency.