Business Consulting
The Business Consulting Group provides business advice and operational support to organizations that seek to engage with Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) markets*, across several sectors, including microfinance, agribusiness, livelihoods, water and sanitation, education, clean energy, and health. *(the socio-economic group that has the lowest income levels and which is not considered credit-worthy by commercial banks)
The business consulting team at Intellecap is experienced in the field of business and development in various industries, including mainstream business and finance, development, research and entrepreneurship, contributing to the group’s unique approach that balances financial and social outcomes.
Our understanding of grassroots realities and business principles enables us to approach development challenges creatively and find innovative, enterprise-led solutions.
Our Services
1. Supporting social enterprises with financial and operational assistance.
2. Using our exposure and experience in the social development sector to function as strategic advisors to corporations and other enabling organizations interested in the BoP space.
3. Conducting customized, multidisciplinary research and delivering cutting edge analysis to bring insight into businesses, industries, and markets across all areas of social development.
4. Pilot testing new ideas on the ground and scaling them up.
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Social Enterprises
Intellecap gives advice and hands-on support to social businesses at different growth stages: start-up mode, organizations preparing for commercial investments, fast growing businesses seeking process efficiencies and product diversification strategies and organizations looking to forge new strategic partnerships for expanding their outreach.
Services we offer to enterprises include:
• Strategic planning and support:
- Capital structuring and investment readiness
- Legal structuring and transformation from not-for-profit to a commercial structure
- Operational excellence
- Market access and value chain enhancement
• Designing organizational strategies to manage growth challenges and risks, and to create new partnerships, products or services
• Financial modeling
• Hand holding support to implement strategies, build capacities, make business plans operational and pilot new products, services or models
• Operational and financial analyzes to plan, monitor and optimize financial performance, efficiency and profitability
• Classroom trainings aimed at building the skills and knowledge of top and middle management
• Monitoring and evaluation of business performance (financial and operational)
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Corporations
We work with corporations to enable the inclusion of the poor in their business models, as consumers, producers or contributors to the value chain by leveraging our extensive experience with low income markets and strong relationships with social enterprises with well developed last mile distribution channels.
Services we offer corporations include:
• Designing strategies for the inclusion of low income communities in mainstream business as:
- Consumers; by designing appropriate products and marketing and distribution channels to reach them
- Producers; by developing strategies for the procurement of goods from them
- Contributors in the value chain; by engaging BOP entrepreneurs in micro franchise models for distribution
• Graduating CSR activities from philanthropy to sustainable business
• Market research on specific sectors and scoping studies to evaluate opportunities
• Hand holding support to implement strategies and pilot new pro-poor business models
• Facilitating market building partnerships with financiers, demand generators and social enterprises with last mile distribution networks
• Monitoring and evaluation of project performance (financial and operational)
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Funding Agencies & Service Providers
We support Investors, Bankers and Donors seeking suitable investment opportunities, an understanding of social sector trends, and to identify appropriate use for capital – grants, debt and equity investments – in social enterprises with high-impact and growth potential.
Services we offer to investors, donors, bankers and other industry contributors include:
• Research on markets, sectors, trends and emerging ideas
• Strategic and operational advisory support to existing social enterprise investees
• Market scans to identify and profile high potential investment opportunities
• Studies to enable high impact program-related investments (PRIs) for donors
• Hand holding support to implement strategies and pilot new models
• Monitoring and evaluation of project performance (financial and operational)
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Social Enterprises
Intellecap gives advice and hands-on support to social businesses at different growth stages: start-up mode, organizations preparing for commercial investments, fast growing businesses seeking process efficiencies and product diversification strategies and organizations looking to forge new strategic partnerships for expanding their outreach.
Services we offer to enterprises include:
• Strategic planning and support:
• Designing organizational strategies to manage growth challenges and risks, and to create new partnerships, products or services
• Financial modeling
• Hand holding support to implement strategies, build capacities, make business plans operational and pilot new products, services or models
• Operational and financial analyzes to plan, monitor and optimize financial performance, efficiency and profitability
• Classroom trainings aimed at building the skills and knowledge of top and middle management
• Monitoring and evaluation of business performance (financial and operational)
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