Vision
While major changes in business become more common and more frequent, importance of business change processes and related development increases and a need to build respective new capabilities also for SMEs grows.
Mission
My mission is to help people in SMEs and in services focusing on them to make more successful business changes by providing them with better development approaches, and tools, and practices and support to create proper conditions for that.
Background of Jarmo
- > 15 years, full time entrepreneur, KIBS Services
- > 5 years, business development for innovation communities
- > 10 years, Helsinki University (Lis.Sc.), research and teaching business subjects
- > 5 years, industry positions, commercialization and marketing tasks
I have a long career both in b-to-b and b-to-c business areas. Different positions that I have taken both at different companies and as an entrepreneur have been eg. strategy development, traditional business development, product and innovation development, and marketing.
My career includes international assignments and academic periods during which I have been researching and teaching business subjects.
Last 19 years I have worked as a full time KIBS (Knowledge Intensive Business Services) entrepreneur, and my emphasis has been on new business and innovations. I have had a diverse range of clients from startups to corporations and collaboration endeavors.
Current Activities
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Helping SME companies, and related collaborations to better business change development (business renewals, new business and innovations) applying modern approaches, processes, tools and practices most of which are unique and based on my own development! I am especially interested in close to practice development.
Promoting also Business-as-a-Game thinking for a more dynamic business experience during development.
I am constantly looking for collaboration and ways to contribute to work done in communities that value SME business development progress. Please, contact me to discuss more of it.