Company Profile

[Penexus Consulting Company Profile]

  PENEXUS CONSULTING

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COMPANY PROFILE

Corporate History and Overview

Penexus Consulting is a trade name of JK smith Int’l an entity recognized by Nigeria’s Corporate affairs Commission. It essentially stands out as focused on Business Development related issues with a major in Business proposal development and training. We help organizations and Companies to Conceptualize and develop, market penetration strategies, using the latest technologies to provide practical, user-friendly solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, home-office entrepreneurs, professionals, middle managers and executives.

The company is a privately-owned business and is currently in the process of opening offices in different parts of the country to better cover new emerging markets. At the present we operate from No 3 Oja Bus Stop, Ajasa Command Off Abule Egba Lagos.

Since 2005, we have successfully rendered services to companies all over the nation and outside the country. In the second half of 2010 alone, we were able to raise up to $75,000 in grant and sponsored deals for our clients, because we started the company with the goal of helping clients make the most of opportunities, we are essentially open to new ideas and one of our core strength is based on consistent research in our major focus areas which includes Basic Business development and of recent Human capacity development.

Today, Penexus Consulting is carving a Niche for itself in a field that is relatively new to the Nigerian market and the Lead Strategist Mr Ajibade Oluwaseun is fast becoming one of the most sought after conference speakers in Business development issues.

Our mission is to empower small and mid-size businesses with strategic business growth skills and business development soft wares; an example of which is the penexus business kit(a software package that solves all the writing needs of Growing Businesses). Being an innovative and technology-savvy organization, we strive to help our clients reach their full market potential. We are continually working to improve existing products and services and to introduce new ones to satisfy SMB needs

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Mission

By providing an essential range of Smart Business Solutions, we aspire to be renowned for our capacity to assist our customers in becoming more competitive, in a world where businesses transact at an unprecedented speed. Excited about what the future holds, we would like to lead our customers to the next level, one day at a time.

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Our Business Model

Penexus Consulting markets and supports its products and services through co-marketing agreements and strategic partnerships with online providers, resellers and marketing firms. In addition to our own expertise, we foster close ties to a select group of value-added resellers to provide clients with specialized knowledge and regional expertise.

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Most important element of a grant proposal.

 This last week was very interesting as my interaction with other professionals in the proposal development really yielded great and outstanding reports as such the answers to my simple question were gotten from three professionals.

Hamutal Gouri • An Isreali Citizen and Founder of Consult4good: she's commited to using her professional skills to promote social change, equality and justice. With more than 20 years of experience as a project manager, consultant to social change groups and progressive foundations and as a certified group facilitator, She has a rich experience in planning and facilitating training workshops, specializing in social marketing, donor relations and effective presentations.
 Her answer was simple:
 What a great question! Foundations' officers and public officials recieve and read humdreds - if not thousands - of grant proposals every year. When you've read that many proposals, you learn to read between lines and beyond the standart grant-writing launguage. When I read a proposal I look for the following, not necessarily in that order:
1. Strong vision/mission statement: not what we want to do, but what we want to achieve;
2. Signs that the applicant is a"learning organization" - that its workplan is based on information and data gathered from its various stakeholders, that it has scanned well its environmnet, knows its potential partners, etc
3. Innovation and passion: non profit work is often challanging and cesific: I look for ways in which the applicant is seeking to overcome challanges using creative thinking and fostering passion and committment
4. "Walking the walk" - non profits often have lofty ideas and great values: I'm interested in seeing how they come to play in an applicant's organisational structure, models of work and interventions, participatory mechanisms, diversity, gender mainstreaming, etc
5. Professionalism: is the applicant offering models based on best practices?
6. Sustainability and community building: foundations and institutional grants can only account for part of the organizational budget. I would tend to give preference to applicants that invest in community building and grassroots fundraising to build long term sustainability

This is not an exhaustive list, but these are some of the components I look at when I read a proposal and when I train non profits in writing them.

 For Joseph Mayerhoff, the answer was succint enough to be cramed:

 Joseph Mayerhoff • As proprietor of Grant Write, I have been writing grant proposals for the past ten years. My view is that the most important part of the grant proposal is the budget. I believe that any good grant writer or general writer can write a needs statement or a proposal that is good enough to get a funder's interest, but I think they get turned off by "pie in the sky" budgets. Budgets need to be thorough and reasonable without being so low that the project cannot succeed and so high that the funder feels that it is being taken advantage of.

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From Jitesh Panda a development consultant with 17 years of experience in India, The three most important element of grant proposal would be - Relevance of the proposed intervention, Experience & expertise of the organization/individual seeking grant; and finally Budget/Financial Details. 

I hope this will suffice and help in directing you when next you focus your grant proposal. See you next time. 

Sample event proposal

Please note the order of this sample. It is a simple letter proposal remember my KISS (Keep it short and simple) principle in proposition?
Now it is not compulsory you copy and paste, just try and understand the format and try to create your own specific audience targetted proposal
Event Coordinator; Enclosure; Opportunity; Audience: Information; Benefits; Creative Implementation and the Call for Action
 Enjoy reading through it.
BlackBerry Torch 9800 Phone (AT&T)
 
Date
Contact
Title
Company
Address
City, State, Zip
Dear Sponsor Contact:
I am contacting you at the suggestion of (Contact Name, you) regarding a unique sponsorship opportunity for
(Company).
On August 25, 2008, (Organisation) of (City name) will host a cocktail party and drawing a student populace that cuts across all tribes in the nation. This event, titled (Event theme), will attract over 250 student from  (School name/ community).
Last year, (Event theme) drew 225 attendees and the participation of 5 commercial bank bosses as main speakers. It was cosponsored by (Company name) and marketed as a
networking event for business and professionally inclinedstudents in (location/Community name)  The event drew an affluent audience. Some 60 percent of the attendees purchased products from the event and an additional 10 percent joined (Your group name) of (Community) as members based on their experience.
We invite (Company) to be the exclusive accessories boutique represented at (Program Theme))for
2011. In addition to being listed on all advertising and press as a sponsor of the event, (Company) will
have the opportunity to host a booth at the event to display products.
Sponsorship benefits such as promotional coupons in all purses included the raffle may be used to drive
traffic to (Company) after the event.
We hope to have the opportunity to share our full presentation of sponsorship benefits with you in the
near future.
I will contact you on (date, time) to determine if a meeting is warranted. In the meantime, please do not
hesitate to contact me at (phone number/email) with any questions.
Sincerely,
Name

THE WORTH OF YOUR PROPOSAL- What decision Makers look out for.

Acer Aspire AS5251-1805 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black)Toshiba Satellite L645D-S4036 LED TruBrite 14-Inch Laptop (Black)In my last article I made mention of the fact (although briefly) that a lot of the times, most proposals are rejected on the basis that they are perceived as cloned proposals. What you should add to that however is that, that is only used some of the times as a pre-screening edge. Once you are able to scale this hurdle, you face the other criteria used by decision makers in the choice of which consultant/group has the advantage over the others. 

A result of recent researches published by Oxford University Press in 2000 and called Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart has documented for the first time, how people actually make decisions. An interdisciplinary team, based at the Max Planck Institute for human development (Berlin and Munich) and the University of Chicago published the results of extensive inquiries into the methods people use for making decisions quickly, based on Minimal amount of information.

It was discovered from these researches that these simple heuristics are the same set of decision making strategies we’ve always used since childhood, during “multiple option” examinations in our schooling years, in our personal lives and also in business. They are hard wired into our brains and also a part of our evolutionary survival package. The same decision strategies were the ones that helped our ancestors, though they never had so much survival gadgets as we do today, yet they still had to make crucial choices that helped them survive.

To determine whether people use these techniques in making Proposal related business decisions, World Renowned Consultant Tom Sant Conducted experiments for over a year in which he distributed a proposal for internet security services to groups of business professionals where he asked them to evaluate the proposal, noting the time it took them to reach a decision either for or against the offer being made in the proposal. 

To be able to properly organize our proposal for acceptance, we must get into the mind of the decision-makers. Whether you are making a 4 page service proposition or a 125 page response to an RFP, these factors should be taken into proper consideration and I shall delve into them more extensively next week.Panasonic KX-TG6545B DECT 6.0 PLUS Expandable Digital Cordless Answering System with 5 HandsetsVtech CS6219-2 DECT 6.0 Expandable 2-Handset Cordless Phone System with Caller ID and Handset Speakerphone (CS6219-2)