Consultancy – My Icon Solutions

Business consultancy

Businesses need to draw on the expert support, suggestions, and experiences of external parties. This kind of help will enable the businesses to set-up, scale, reduce wastages, increase profit margins, and become more productive and efficient. These advantages can result from integrating and streamlining workflows and strategic projects in novel ways, and by implementing new solutions to solve common – and uncommon – business “pain points.”

Our consultancy service can help businesses in providing such services. We provide different services that help businesses realize their full potential by offering key insights and critical intel that can help business, of any size, expat and scale, while reaching and fulfilling all its strategic, long-term goals.

Investment consultancy

Proper investment assessment and planning is crucial to business success, but not everyone knows where to start or how to proceed. As a business owner, you already have many responsibilities on your plate, so the added task of investment planning can take away from other high-priority duties. But with professional investment advisors, you can get the assistance you need to do both.

At Icon, we have the investment consulting services that will help you reach your goals. Our investment consulting is equipped with a team of skilled advisors who know what it takes to create the best strategy for you. Our on the ground experience in investment consultancy, turn-key business consultancy and financial consultancy as equip us with unique skills.

Whether you’re looking to plan your retirement, invest your savings, or expand your business, our investment consulting services are the first step in getting there.

Our team has done successful investment consulting for a wide array of industries and clients, including; corporates, foreign investors, family businesses, and non-profit organizations.

Marketing consultancy

Our marketing consultancy will provide you with different strategical services that can help your business radically revolutionize your marketing pipeline and systems. This can be done in two ways, by fully outsourcing your marketing activities or by providing advisory and coaching services to your existing marketing team.

Our effective thought-leaders and experts can help your business by:

Creating and/or implementing a strategic marketing plan that is aligned with the overall company strategy
Creating and/or implementing content marketing plan

While providing our services, our clients can benefit as we offer our services in helping them discover new opportunities such as identifying new segments.

Financial Consultancy

As your financial consultant, we will closely work with your company’s CFO and/or a strategic consultant (or internal business strategist) to help the business align its financial goals (e.g. profit margins, overhead, spending habits, ROI, etc.) with all tactical short-term goals, and strategic long-term goals.

Additionally, we will help you analyze your enterprise’s entire financial position and portfolio so you can determine how feasible requisite projects are, and whether opportunity costs can or should be considered.

There are a myriad of other tasks that we may help your business with, including investment strategies, taxes, insurances, strategies for saving money, scaling into other markets, including profit margins, and lowering customer acquisition costs.

Tax Consultancy

A cautious investor is always equipped with and acts proactively on tax issues. Our tax consultancy helps you focus your effort on your core business while we take care of your tax issues.

An operation in the Ethiopian business environment requires on to be well conversant to both the tax laws as well as the practices. Our years of experience as a practitioner tax consultant and accountants has equipped us with both the practical experience and the written laws.

Over the past years we have served across various industries and have represented clients on discussions with the tax authorities and have done several due diligences works.

Our consultancy service in the management area includes different set of practices with a main purpose of optimizing the skills of senior personnel. The focus will be on developing your senior staff on how to manage their teams and departments on daily basis, so they can get the result they are looking for.

Using our collective years of management experience, our knowledge amassed from working across different industries and our network of partners we will work to develop your concerned team.

The end goal of the management consultancy services is to optimize the management methodologies in use so that the business operates in a better and more efficient manner, which include:

Design a robust management framework
Assess the different factors that affect how management directs the business
Conduct direct or indirect benchmark comparisons
Assess the existing organizational structure and develop a restructuring framework

A startup incubator is a collaborative program designed to help new startups succeed. We help entrepreneurs solve some of the problems commonly associated with running a startup by providing tailored consultancy, mentoring, and training. The sole purpose of a startup incubator is to help entrepreneurs grow their business.

While most incubators focuses on tech startups, incubators aren’t just limited to one industry. In fact, the focus of incubators varies by the type of business.

Here is a list of the most common services we provide:

- Help with business basics
- Networking opportunities
- Marketing assistance
- Accounting/financial management assistance
- Access to bank loans and loan funds
- Help with presentation skills
- Connections to strategic partners
- Comprehensive business training programs
- Advisory boards and mentors
- Management team identification
- Help with business etiquette
- Help with regulatory compliance

Our incubation service follows a standardized three phase approach; engage, equip, unleash.

At the engage phase we assess the entrepreneur to check if the business idea is feasible and the founders are reliable. Once the entrepreneur passes this stage their financial capacity is assessed if they can pay for the service. For those that do not have the financial capacity a sponsor or loan is sought for.

The equip stage is where the entrepreneur is coached, trained and availed other supports to put the business on the ground and make it profitable. While we work to make the business profitable, we equally focus on the founder and staff to create a team that can sustain and grow the vision.

Unleash stage releases the entrepreneur.