Services

Business ideas and innovations

We are a business consulting firm that works with both the commercial and legal side of international trade. We have been working with commercialization and internationalization processes for many years, and we know that it takes to establish a Company or Brand on a new market. If you have an interest in issues related to innovation, entrepreneurship or the development of ideas, we can assist you with some first advise and support. Sometimes we also help to arrange special event focusing on business ideas and innovation such as seminars and lectures, workshops, competitions, hackathons, etc

The core of our services is building brand and business in new markets, our focus is international business development, and we have many years’ experience of international trade. We can help you develop a business idea and innovation further and adjust it to different markets. Call us today to talk about international business.

We offer many sales and marketing services to companies that want to grow in new markets. That means we offer a combination of services in management, law, human resources, sales and marketing. We help companies grow through both new businesses generated locally but more importantly through expansion into new markets. We can assist you develop new business, whether you are looking for customers, suppliers or a place of manufacturing.

B-Open Nordic is all about business, innovation and growth!

Management and growth

We can help you both as Advisor or Council and even take on assignments as interim CEO or Board Advisors for market growth or business turnarounds. What is successful leadership in an organization? It is different depending on market and Company. What many years of international trade and business teaches us is that management, or real leadership, is more important than anything else when trying to master the uncertainty in your business and inside your organization. It is also localization to your market and customer. We know this well from many years in international trade.

You just don’t know what’s in store for you tomorrow or in the near future. You learn more how you and others act and react to events that were out of your control as you become more experienced as a Business Leader. What we all try to do in business is to try to make a plan, but be ready to revise that plan every day, and try to build a team of business people that are as good as possible doing just that, do business! Success is more about our ability to react to events and people, then follow a certain plan.

What you need as a Business Leader is people that you trust but also people have real applied knowledge and business focus. If you focus on building business skills, not product skill alone you can handle what ever happen to you and your company. The important part is not what you are and where you are going but how you prepare and approach the problem as you face them, and you will most likely face many problems during your career. When you don’t succeed, it is many times because of communication, or the lack of clear and direct communication.

Some of the questions we will ask you when looking at your business;

Who are your customers?
What do they want?
What knowledge assets would allow you to develop a new core competency that has higher value added for your customers?
What investment in knowledge assets can you make to move you in the right direction?
How do you organize to allow anyone in your organization to contribute?
How do you build teams or communities of people separated by time and space who trust each other enough to work effectively together?
How do you get everyone in your organization to be engaged with the customer?
How will the HR Department support the required shift in culture?
How does HR Department work with searching and recruiting new talent (the right staff/people) every week and every month?
Does your organization have the right mix of skills to be successful?
How can you get Top Management to understand, support, be mentors to new behaviours that are necessary for your success?

They key issue here it is more about working with people. Be genuine interested in them and your joint efforts. Too many Business Leader are not that interested in people, not even their own people. We try to change that, and we call this focusing on Individual Capital inside your Company, not only Human Capital as many like to define it. What we mean that good Individual Capital will lead to Human, Structure and Financial Capital but it will also prepare you to master the uncertainty for life and business better.

As we work with these issues every day, we are happy to help you review and improve your Management and Communication skill inside and outside your Company. Let’s us help you to master the uncertainty of building a business, contact us today.

Recruitment & Staffing

We can help you find the right people, or assist you with HR services, here in the Nordic Region. Big part of our management philosophy is building Individual Capital that lead to Human, Structural, and Financial Capital inside a knowledge driven business. We know how to work with people to build your business, and we can be your HR Business Partner building a stronger and more profitable business.

We focus on people and a very important part of building individual capital is to both recruit the right people, but also nurture, coach and develop them to be the very best business specialist you need to build a successful business.

This is hard work and we know many business leaders do not feel they have the time or energy for this, that is why a lot of our HR Services is about helping you with people.

Most of the recruiters today rely on a database with search options and tags on what people have done before and what school they went to. Focus is about background and human capital but not so much about the personality, the drive and possibility in each person.

We do not work like that, and we like to see ourselves as real “head hunter” but we cannot find the right people until we understand our clients. We are not working as a CV factory we are matching people with other people, and companies. We focus on research concerning candidates what they are interested in, their drive, knowledge and of course also their experience but also their long-term goals.

This requires an understanding of both your business needs, and the applicant, as they fit into your company. We make it a priority to understand your hiring motivations, including work environment and culture, interpersonal relationships, business strategy in regard to the role we recruit for, and salary requirements.

From there, we take care of everything, reducing your hiring costs, streamlining the process and giving you a selection of the best, most qualified candidates for your executive, senior/mid-level management, and long-term contract positions.

Some of the HR services we provide;

Executive/Specialist Search with candidate selection, pre-screens of candidates including real interviews and background checks.
In depth and attitude (drive) test with reference checks.
Assist clients with interview of identified candidates
Confidential in-house interviews, part of your HR development. Help to develop and improve work environment and communication within a Company.
Coaching and HR mentoring, especially middle management.
Conversion and settlement, helping businesses and individuals with conversion when facing a turn-around-process.