Sep24023 Most Innovative NPO & SME Consulting Firm 2024 – Italy Located in Rome, SMe System is a Centre of Excellence that specialises in providing strategic consulting services that involve analysing and identifying the best financial support and opportunities in alignment with its client’s objectives. Delivering high quality scouting, design, management, communication, and dissemination services for projects at regional, national, and European levels, SMe System has been recognised in the Management Consulting Awards 2024. Here, we speak with Sole Director Silvia Prati, to learn more. Founded in 2016, SMe System provides its clientele with a wide array of integrated services and transversal skills, empowering them to develop sustainable, personalised paths for growth and expansion. SMe System extends its services to a myriad of sectors, such as health and wellbeing, digital and technological solutions, sustainable development, human rights, social inclusion, and many more. To effectively deliver management consulting services to its clients, SMe System has developed innovative forms of data collection to extract key information that helps the company discover potential solutions for each specific case it undertakes. These methodologies include examining a company’s internal financial data, hosting focus group, analysing industry research reports, and interviewing company employees. Servicing an array of clientele, predominantly small and medium-sized enterprises and non-profit organisations, SMe System targets a broad range of individuals, especially disadvantaged groups. Through its exceptional services, the company is wellpositioned to provide these individuals with vital support to aid them on their journey to social and financial inclusion. Dedicated to upholding its social responsibility, SMe System has used its platform to enact positive change since its inception. This has been recognised; the company received the Public Administration Forum Award in 2018, which highlights innovative projects that have enhanced innovative practices in Circular Economy in Italy. This recognition was for NETFOOD, a project focused on creating a digital platform to enhance the traceability and transparency of food surpluses.Leveraging advanced technologies, NETFOOD ensures the safety and quality of food surpluses, benefiting both donors and the wider community. NETFOOD was judged among the 100 most innovative projects in Italy on the topic of Circular Economy. In addition to this, the company has won the Le Fonti Award – Italy for two consecutive years, 2023 and 2024, as the Best Consulting Firm for companies and third sector bodies. Further highlighting its commitment to delivering impactful services that truly benefit the user, SMe System developed a Fundability Matrix with the aim of better identifying the sources of funding promising the best probability of success. This system allows the client’s needs and priorities to be perfectly matched to their related funding possibilities. Simultaneously, the Matrix considers the development plans and calls for tenders of the European Commission, the Europe 2021-2027 strategy, the Structural Funds, and national and local calls for tenders. On the basis of the analyses and elements identified, it is possible to begin the executive planning activity for participation in ongoing public calls for tenders, which significantly increases the chances of success for the applications. The Fundability Matrix is just one example of the ways in which SMe System has embraced modernisation to remain competitive within the dynamic market. Silvia tells us that SMe System is as the forefront of innovation when it comes to digitalisation tools, having incorporated numerous technologies into its operations. The company uses an eLearning platform that not only hosts specialised training courses but connects clients and project partners by facilitating discussions and real-time updates that are accessible any time of the day. SMe System uses an AI tool in online meetings that automatically records minutes. Specifically, the tool transcribes, summarises, structures, tracks, assigns, and even automates various activities, such as drafting proposals and follow-up emails. This introduction pushes SMe System to the cutting-edge of innovation, enabling the company to focus on its service offerings rather than administrative tasks. In relation to the industry movements, SMe System has created an innovative EU Viability Rating on the level of the adequacy of the company to access a plurality of forms of financing and it provides an exhaustive state of the art of the company’s economic and financial situation, represents the company from the financier’s perspective, highlights actions and techniques to improve SME ranking positions. Furthermore, it creates an innovative consulting service, Advanced Innovation Check, to support start-up and technologically oriented companies through the analysis of the idea/service/product/project with drafting of a report relating to the fundamental transversal themes for obtaining financing (sustainability, gender gap, green economy, social inclusion); identification, study and creation of a comparative table of the most significant competitors with respect to the idea/service/project of your company that you desire; identification and creation of a comparative table of the most significant European and national projects with respect to the idea that your company intends to develop/propose; schematic report analysing the reference market with indications on a possible development plan; creation of the financeability matrix, cross-referencing the main characteristics and salient elements of the project idea with the existing financing macroprograms. With extra time to enhance its operations, Silvia told us that SMe System faces exciting developments in the coming year, namely the activation of the S.O.S. Start-up Micro Impresa. This service will deliver qualified, professional support relating to the startup of a micro enterprise within any sector, further empowering a community in complete alignment with SMe System’s vision of empowering SMEs and NPOs to excel. Contact: Silvia Prati Company: SME System Web Address: https://smesystem.it/
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