What We Do
Porter Bilger & Associates designs, implements, and manages innovative strategies to build networks, teams and feedback loops for organizations, businesses, and communities, allowing these organizations to “transform” and “innovate” by taking advantage of the new “Interconnectivity” and the “Social Networking Revolution” in practical ways.
The source of talent, diversity, innovative processes and feedback loops are critical for business success. By bringing together traditional networking and team building processes with the many tools available through web technologies, organizations can expand their talent base, networks and connectivity more than ever before.
Different clients have different needs, below are a few examples of the types of teams and networks which benefit organizations:
CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT
Customer Feedback Networks. By connecting directly with customers in real time, organizations can become more responsive. In today's social media world, customers control your marketing messages more and more. Make customers part of your team. Listen, learn, and share with your customers daily through web technologies.
INFORMATION SHARING - IMPROVE INTERNAL COMMUNICATION AND DRIVE INNOVATION
Cross-disciplinary Idea Networks. These networks can assist, identify, and create a new product or service, and/or better understand a potential market for a new product in a compacted time frame. These networks should include both internal and external experts.
Internal Networks – Create a Culture of Innovation. Key people within the company, usually from different business units or with different functions that come together around a subject or problem to share ideas, find solutions and build innovations. Avoid the dead end suggestion box; create internal networks to “hear” new ideas and innovations for your company.
TALENT FEEDBACK LOOPS
Advisory Boards. Every individual and/or company should have a diverse network of external experts who can provide unique insights around specific challenges, opportunities, business models and/or functions.
RECRUITMENT
Virtual Assistant Networks. Create an outside team to do hundreds of different projects – research sales leads, data entry, manage social media strategies, administrative tasks, etc. These assistants can be “an at home mom or dad” to independent contractors.
Student and University Networks. Putting teams of students on projects can give an organization a youthful perspective, allow an organization to move on various projects, as well as enable an organization to test future employees before the expensive process of hiring the right person.
EDUCATION
Peer Networks, On or Off-line Round-Tables. Cross-industry collaboratives can bring together senior executives to share insights, ideas and best practices.
Foster Innovation Learning Communities. Broad networks of educational leaders whose members can interact to identify trends, research and innovative education opportunities - fostering learning communities in new ways.
Events and Experiences. One-time events designed around simulations, dynamic team engagements, debates, and/or workshops.