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About Startoday Ltd Startoday Ltd (STL) is a registered private

management consulting firm based in Kigali, Rwanda. Since its inception in 2012, Startoday has helped its clients to realize their strategic objectives, to solve business problems, to maximize their corporate value, and how to establish business superiority. Our success is dependent on our experienced, talented and creative consultants that bring their solid technical knowledge and expertise to transform enterprises and businesses of our clients into more competitive and highly successful firms.

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As the most trusted partner, we offer our clients competitive advantage by providing them with the very best services at a fair rate. We always produce results which match or exceed expectations because we only take on where we are sure we can deliver. We are independent and practical in our services. Our focus is on application and implementation of best practices. We work in collaborative and inclusive manner with clients. We base our business on long term client relationships.

Vision and Mission

Vision: To be the most trusted business partner that

provides best consulting services and creates a well-rewarded and highly motivated environment to its staff and clients.

Mission: To unlock the potentials of the current and next

generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders and to help them to be highly competitive and successful in today’s fast changing business world.

Values o Ethical: We build strong clients relationships based upon

integrity, respect and professionalism. o Inclusive and creative: We believe in hard work, creativity

and in offering excellent service in all areas of our business. o Committed excellence: We are productive, accountable, and

transparent in our operations. o Continuous learning: We continually develop and improve

one’s skills and knowledge in order to perform effectively and adapt to changes in the workplace.

o Open-minded: We are willing to consider new ideas or arguments.

o Information sharing: We exchange useful information among people, friends, families, communities, or organizations.

o Win-win attitude: We constantly seek mutual benefit in all human interactions.

Services

Our services aimed at improving the efficiency and accountability of the private sector. We provide advice and technical assistance in :

• Strategic and operational planning, including monitoring and evaluation

• Financial Management ,including costing and budgeting • Organizational development, including Human Resource

Management and good governance • Customer Relationship Management • Supply Chain Management • Partnership Development • Other thematic areas

Products

Our program’s mission is to develop the new wealthiest small and medium sized enterprises in Rwanda and in the region.

• KEN: A hub of national, regional and international consultants and other specialists.

• TNP: Advice and Technical Assistance in line with Business development services

• F4S: Advice and Technical Assistance in line with Business Finance

• Startoday Online: Advice and Technical Assistance in recent Information, Communication and Technologies

• Burarahurwa Programme: Capacity building for Small and Medium sized Enterprises in general management, business development and finance , and business framework and regulations

• SkillsConnect: Networking Events that bring together entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, policymakers,etc

Our target group: Small Business

We work with individual firms, SMEs , Cooperatives, young entrepreneurs, women ventures, TVET graduates, veterans, people with disabilities and business leaders from anywhere, within any industry, to solve problems and deliver results like lower costs, better products, and higher efficiencies.

Our approach

Transforming Enterprises

Needs Identification

Technical Assistance

Business Finance

Access to Markets

Policy and Community

Support

Con’d: Our approach

• Needs Identification – assessing real needs of entrepreneurs and drawing proper recommendations that will lead to real solutions and results.

• Technical assistance – providing reasonable, accurate and timely support related to business services, information and technology.

• Business finance – facilitating access to capital for start-ups, research and development, and business growth.

• Access to Markets – supporting entrepreneurs to produce for local, regional and international markets.

• Policy and community support – advocating for an enabling business environment that encourage business start-ups and growth.

Needs Identification

Startoday Ltd works closely with its clients both at individual level and association level to identify major challenges they face and provide customized support to ensure the mitigation of those challenges: this could be with regards to finance, markets, inputs, technologies, costs, and a range of other issues.

Technical Assistance

STL invites companies to think about all stages necessary to get innovative new products and services successfully to market as a primary means to growth and profitability.

Stage 1: Seeking opportunities: This may be a formal growth strategy or simply just a new mind set.

Stage 2: Creating solutions: Companies advance their best ideas and refine them before moving to the market.

Stage 3: Building markets: Companies look to find ways to identify new markets or better penetrate existing markets.

Business Finance - F4S

This program aims at linking our clients to funding opportunities at all stage of business growth (pre– seed, seed capital, equity capital, etc) both at start-up and growth stages.

Access to Markets

This program supports our clients to improve their quality, to boost their productivity, to comply with existing norms and regulations (tax, standardizations, etc) and to reach local, regional and international markets.

Policy and Community Support

This program aims to create a business

ecosystem where policy-makers, practitioners, business owners, civil society and the entire community have same understanding on issues/ trends/challenges/ realities that are in the sector and adopt appropriate solutions.

Key performance indicators 2015-2018

• Reduced mortality rate of new businesses by 60% (currently estimated at 80%).

• Increased employment rate among our clients (more than 500 decent work will be created annually)

• Increased productivity and revenues among our clients (by 30% annually)

• Increased exports among our clients ( 30% of total production)

• Increased collaboration and partnership among clients (a value of more 5 billion Rwf to be created)

Impact

• For our clients

First and foremost, offering quality services to our clients help them to flourish and make the most of their lives. There is a large body of evidence that demonstrates the long-term beneficial effect of quality business services for small business development.

Impact (con’t)

• For the Economy A strong economy depends on people’s skills,

motivation and knowledge. Investment in new businesses has high economic and social returns, because its impact on people’s skills and dispositions lasts a lifetime.

• For Society Quality support for small businesses helps make

society fairer and more equitable through reducing social and economic disadvantage and strengthening equality.

Impact con’t

• Sustainability

‘’You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.’’ Victor Hugo. We will help our clients to ‘’fast forward’’ their sustainable journeys with our abundance of thinking, tools and resources.

Startoday Partners

• Public institutions and regulatory Agencies

• Private Sectors, Private organizations, Associations, Private companies, etc

• Business Development and Research Agencies (Universities…)

• Financial Institutions – Banks, Microfinance, Angels, Venture Capitalist, etc)

• National and International NGOs

The Management of the Company

• Board of Directors (5): President, Vice –

President, Secretary, Members

• Executive Directory: Chief Executive Officer (1), Chief Operations Officer (1), Chief Finance Officer (1)

• Managers(5) and Consultants (30)

• Other Staff and Technical Assistants (8)

Our contacts

• Tel: 0731212544/0783060187/0785008553

• Email: ikaziwacu@gmail.com

• Web: www.ikaziwacu.wix.com/skillsconnect

• Blog: www.ikaziwacu.blogspot.com

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/startodayLtd

• Twitter: www.twitter.com/Startodayltd

Annex 1: Some definitions

• Management consulting is the practice of creating value for organizations, through improved performance, achieved by providing objective advice and implementing business solutions. In other words, management consultants help take organizations further than they would go on their own.

Annex : Some definitions (next) • Strategic management is the continuous planning,

monitoring, analysis and assessment of all that is necessary for an organization to meet its goals and objectives.

• Strategic objectives are long-term organizational goals that help to convert a mission statement from a broad vision into more specific plans and projects.

• A business strategy is the means by which it sets out to achieve its desired ends (objectives). It can simply be described as a long-term business planning.

• Corporate Core Values. Companies can have core values as well. These are the guiding principles that help to define how the corporation would behave. They are usually expressed in the corporation's mission statement.

Annex : Some definitions (Next)

• Business transformation is about making fundamental changes in how business is conducted in order to help cope with a shift in market environment.

• Human capital management (HCM) is an approach to employee staffing that perceives people as assets (human capital) whose current value can be measured and whose future value can be enhanced through investment.

• Customer relationship management (CRM) is an approach to managing a company's interaction with current and future customers. It often involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize sales, marketing, customer service, and technical support.

• Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services. It includes the movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption.