2020-11-13
FINAL OPEN CONFERENCE - The SNOwMan Project
On 12th of November the final open conference of The Snowman project was held.
The SNOwMan project focuses on SMEs, which are both owned and managed by the same person. To unleash the full potential and achieve growth, it can be useful to engage in counselling with business intermediaries. Unfortunately, the existent professional tools are not suitable for the owner-managers’ needs, thereby making it difficult to find common ground in the counselling process.
Based on this, the mission of SNOwMan was to develop tools that ease the cooperation between SME owner-managers and business intermediaries. By developing a counselling toolbox, it is hoped business intermediaries will have a better premise when counselling owner-managers. In the conference several key note speakers shared their experience in the field of non-technological innovations:
Based on this, the mission of SNOwMan was to develop tools that ease the cooperation between SME owner-managers and business intermediaries. By developing a counselling toolbox, it is hoped business intermediaries will have a better premise when counselling owner-managers. In the conference several key note speakers shared their experience in the field of non-technological innovations:
- Entrepreneur and Board Member of Lithuanian Family Business Association, Lithuania. International Team Leader; 15+ years experience in advisory, business management & investment projects (main sectors: Financial, Real estate, Infrastructure, Utilities, Energy, IT). Taurimas was talking about "The Phenomenon of Overall "Family Investor" Parameter During All Stages of Business Financing: Diversified Targets & Needs of Potential Investors".
- Kim Klyver is professor in entrepreneurship at University of Southern Denmark and adjunct professor at University of Adelaide, and previously held positions at Swinburne University of Technology and Stanford University. Kim’s main research interests include entrepreneurship, SME growth social capital (social networks), human capital, gender, and institutional theory. He is co-author of the international textbook “Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice – Paradoxes in Play” Kim was talking about Growth in owner-managed SMEs - Uniqueness, challenges and opportunities.
Owner-managers of SMEs tend to be driven by different considerations than SMEs run by employed managers, for example, their own family’s well-being, the employees’ situations and lack of time for developing their own managerial skills. 6 Steps for Innovation platform was developed to solve this problem.
We are very happy with the results. Please look what our project participant, Lithuanian high tech company - UAB "Sportine aviacija ir ko", thinks of 6-step counselling tool added value to their business - https://bit.ly/3lvXi3K
We are very happy with the results. Please look what our project participant, Lithuanian high tech company - UAB "Sportine aviacija ir ko", thinks of 6-step counselling tool added value to their business - https://bit.ly/3lvXi3K
