Top Business Consulting Firms Of 2019

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jp.group
jp.group is a Portuguese corporate group with an international presence, mainly in the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) sector, but also in complementary areas that reinforce and value the solutions offered in the market. In Portugal they are currently the largest group in Information Technologies. jp.di and jp.ik represent the core business, dedicating themselves to the distribution of the most prestigious computer and electronic brands, and to the implementation of education projects, respectively.Challenge
The company needed a centralized software solution being capable to provide all the necessary information and give the efficient support to the group. Given the size and different business operations of the company, the task required a special approach.
Solution and Outcome
blink-iT has designed and developed several customized solutions based on ERP Dynamics NAV suitable for client’s various business areas. We enabled a business intelligence tool for analyzing indicators and reporting among employees, departments, regions and the whole company.
We also support the implemented information systems (ERP, CRM) since 2014.
 

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Challenge. Disrupt an oatmeal aisle that has been dominated by Quaker Oatmeal for over 100 years
Solution. Umpqua Oats has the product to compete against the mushy instant oatmeal competition. With whole rolled oats, real ingredients and none of those added fillers Quaker uses to save costs, Umpqua Oats is exactly what Millennials are looking for. Hitting the oatmeal aisle with bright white and a bold use of black and bright colors instantly attracts attention in a sea of beige. An image with appetite appeal is easy to execute because their product is REAL.Nothing shows the Umpqua difference more than image and video so we art directed a series of videos to be used online and in social media. Connecting consumers to the history of Umpqua Oats and co-founders, Sheri and Mandy, shows consumers that Umpqua is not just a real product, but also made by real people.Check out Umpqua Oats' brand videos:https://vimeo.com/215722432https://vimeo.com/215723532

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Scott Eaton’s  Bodies in Motion is an AngularJSLaravel web application, an ongoing photographic project that aims to document the power, beauty and possibility of the human body in motion. The photographer captures each motion as one photo, then uploads every photo, after which the system visualizes the string of photos as one motion. For this purpose, a huge library for motions has been developed. Users have the opportunity to watch drawings in high quality and draw artworks. The registered users have am an option called quickdraw. This is a perfect tool for beginners, allowing its users to filter images and start their quick drawings within a chosen short timeframe.

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Our Work:Information architecture | Visual design | Web programming

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Goal: to create social media profiles with a highly engaged, targeted audience/ fanbase.
Solution: Something About Marketing created an Instagram page for FEBC RM, and posted high quality content with amazing storytelling copy. After utilizing the best marketing strategies, we were able to grow the account to over 10k followers in just under 6 weeks! 
Not to mention the engagement rate was very high, and the posts were well received by the target audience. It's safe to say that we created a powerful Instagram with a high attention rate, (the main purpose of social) with their very niche audience. 
"They changed our entire social media strategy... We went from zero to over 10,000 niche followers on our Instagram in a short six weeks thanks to the team at Something About Marketing!"
- Victor, Director of Operations at FEBC RM

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Nike
As an iconic global brand, Nike’s communications are all about high performance. Every consumer touchpoint needs to deliver consistency, quality and impact. For the past two years, we’ve been working with Nike to create retail experiences that meet these exacting standards and keep them ahead of the competition.





Nike is a byword for high achievement and inspiration. But to maintain its global success, the brand needs to protect its well-crafted reputation in partner retail environments. Our work with Nike for Sports Direct and Lillywhites focuses on elevating the brand’s in-store environment – spanning retail comms, merchandising principles and digital fixtures.


From launching campaigns through to implementing a new digital strategy, we push for creative excellence across every element to craft compelling brand and product stories.

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The Brief
Create a market leading interactive benchmark which allows the world’s largest investment companies, with FAIRR having $7.8 trillion supporter AUM, to make informed decisions around environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues surrounding protein production.
Our Approach
The key prospect for the Index was to ensure it was digestible, engaging, and flexible. Through filtering functionality, users are able to surface relevant data with the ability to download their key findings. Users can also take an in-depth look into each company profile and view more specific KPI data. Companies are scored against 9 risk factors, these all having 2 unique icons for different applications; corporate and playful.
The Outcome
The initial expectation for the index was to be annually updated, but due to the successful launch, the site will be updated every quarter; expanding the company data set. In the first week of launch, the index generated over 100 media articles from sites such as The Financial Times, BBC news, The Guardian, and has helped FAIRR increase their site visits by 641% vs last year.

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Infotjenester is a Norwegian company, leading technology and expertise company in HR and Finance. Their goal is to assist customers in creating good workplaces, and ensure that organizations perform better.
The consultants conduct courses, respond to requests for support and share their experience in servicing the products so that the information you receive is always up to date. Through their legal expertise and customer knowledge, consultants also contribute to the development of new products and services. They also give consultation and guide you in the best practices of other companies to make sure that you are confident in your methods.

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IONDESIGN designs the packaging for the olive oil "il circolo" from the south of Italy. The label picks up the annual rings of the Sicilian olive trees, which also appear in the name of the oil. Both the packaging of the 500ml bottle and the 3L canister emphasize the exquisite quality of the natural product. By reinvesting the proceeds from the sale of the oil, the region around the Italian Noto is strengthened. The aim of the producers is the sustainable and social production of excellent, organic olive oil - these characteristics are recognizable in the packaging. The dark green glass of the bottle provides an elegant background for the deep black label with gold stamping. The eponymous annual rings of the olive tree are executed in partial varnish give the label a silky sheen. 

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Lead generation, infographics, microsite, sales materials/sales training

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Complete Shopify migration from multiple other website platforms.

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• Logo Creation


• Brand Standard & Brand Standard Guide


• Website Development (HIPAA & ADA Compliant)


• Social Campaign Development


• Reputation Management 


• Search Engine Optimization


• Google My Business Management 


• Print Collateral 

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Desirium is a universal VR content platform with a huge variety of VR experiences and constantly newly-releasing qualitative content. Found on Oculus Store, Xiaomi Mi VR Store, HTC Viveport and many more platforms, users can pick various genres with different levels of interactivity and immerse themselves in 2-10 minutes length VR experiences which provide specific set of emotions hardly achievable in real life.Within DESIRIUM, FIBRUM performs as a developer, publisher, and distributor of both of its own and third-party VR content from the world's leading studios.The collection, already containing more than 20 experiences, will include the content from the world's leading developers, best-selling FIBRUM apps, as well as the newest content created by FIBRUM specifically for the platform. These experiences are branded as "DESIRIUM Originals" and offer the user the highest standards of quality and engagement for VR.

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Branding & UX/UI design for Brand Intelligence Application

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THE BRIEF
Launch of Jaybird in Denmark to media and athletes. 
THE SOLUTION
A Jaybird power launch with demo, fitting of ear buds followed by running and outdoor exercise provided by Sporting Health Club.
THE RESULTS
We had a great time in Denmark launching X3 to an excited group of media, athletes and fans. Thanks for joining us and we can't wait until our next event together. #poweryourpassion

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Nike’s Workplace Design team out of Beaverton, Oregon approached Jacknife to help envision Nike Canada’s brand new headquarters. The brief? Bring to life a workspace that inspires creative thinking and connects staff and visitors to each other and to the brand.
We needed to create a branded environment which celebrates the uniqueness of the Canadian market while also establishing deep ties back to the World Headquarters. To achieve this we developed a “Rough and Refined” theme – a celebration of the diverse nature of the Canadian landscape and its people, from the roughness of our natural landscape to our refined modern urban centres. As Canadians, we take pride in our sometimes harsh environment and the unique grit required to be an all seasoned athlete here.
We developed an extensive series of art-based installations through the new offices including a massive sculptural “Just Do It” made up of iconic shoe patterns floating on a dimensional map of Toronto, an intricate wooden slat wall and ceiling installation forming the Nike logo, a boardroom wall and seating installation made from actual basketball court material and a hand-painted logo, multiple large-scale wall murals featuring both the brand and the fabric of Canada, iconic footwear painted on concrete columns throughout the space, custom tile work “Run Faster” in employee kitchen, and a wooden type installation featuring chainsaw cut letters.
In order to execute on such a broad array of interactions, we assembled and orchestrated a team of highly skilled local craftspeople from a variety of disciplines ranging from sign painters to woodworking experts and speciality sculptors. Ultimately, we created a modern space that embodies the spirit of the Nike brand, tells intriguing and discoverable stories and inspires their team on a daily basis.

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Website
Client
Fotofabrika is an annual month-long photography, art, and cinema festival held in Sofia, Bulgaria. Challenging the social norms, it deals with heavy topics every year. We identify with the values they represent while being proud co-organisers of the festival.

Solution
We have developed a website for the festival, which is designed to align with the atmosphere of the event itself and the social topics that it draws attention to.

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Museum eKnowAll (aka Muzejska eSveznalica) is an AR mobile application that guides visitors through the exhibition using digital storytelling. Animated characters Mia, Bozidar, and Curator of the Museum are telling some of the most interesting museum stories suitable for children from 5 to 10 years. The application contains interactive quiz giving visitors the role of researchers of the cultural heritage presented in the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad. Museum eKnowAll (aka Muzejska eSveznalica) is an AR mobile application that guides visitors through the exhibition using digital storytelling. Animated characters Mia, Bozidar, and Curator of the Museum are telling some of the most interesting museum stories suitable for children from 5 to 10 years. The application contains interactive quiz giving visitors the role of researchers of the cultural heritage presented in the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad.

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Pax Planning provides specialized financial planning services for professionals, couples and people experiencing financial transitions in Canada.Pax Planning was spending hundreds of dollars per month on Google and Facebook ads, but was experiencing a high bounce rate and poor conversion rates. In addition, their SEO rankings among financial planners both in the local Vancouver area and Canada needed improvement.Perfect Leap™ immediately recognized an opportunity to increase search rankings and conversion rates, implementing several key areas of improvement:

• Website re-designed from the ground up into an aesthetically pleasing, easy to navigate lead capture funnel


• Re-imagining the existing brand into a clean, 'flat' and bright color scheme


• Re-branding existing service offerings into 3 main products that fit into 3 distinct niches


• 'Couples financial planning', a service that Pax already specialized in, offered a unique opportunity to capture a portion of the SEO market that was both underserved and undervalued


• Coaching on how to write effective blog articles and social media posts to help drive more traffic to the site


• Coaching (as well as preliminary setup) for effective SEO in the Wordpress back-end


• Coaching on running effective ads on Facebook and Google

RESULTS:Pax Planning saw an almost overnight improvement which is almost unheard of in the SEO space. Their search rankings on Google increased substantially within the first 2 weeks, and within a few days their lead capture was already generating results!

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The project was implemented for one of the Canadian oil and gas companies. The implemented business process implies recognition of the charts which are generated by two or three pens driven by sensors attached to gas pipes. These pens plot traces on a rotating paper disk. As a result, the disc has the values of different parameters such as gas pressure, water, temperature. The next step is to convert this chart into a readable format.
This conversion process used to be performed manually by our customer’s employees. They had to manually delineate the contours of each trace using the mouse and then create the table with the values of the trace. Obviously, the whole process was very time-consuming and painful for the employee since he had no room for mistake.
Challenges: The main challenge we faced was how we actually should recognize the chart itself and all the traces it contains. The traces on the chart could hardly be seen or overlap each other. These kinds of issues were the most challenging for us since we had to recognize each trace separately and form the table with the values of each parameter.
Solutions: To solve the problems which were described above, we did step-by-step work. To be more specific, we implemented the following things:

1. Implementation of recognizing the empty chart template without any traces;


2. Then recognizing the traces on the chart;


3. Then recognizing the colors of each trace since the traces can be red, black, blue, etc. It depends on the pen’s color;


4. Defining where the trace starts and where it ends;


5. Calculation of the average value of the trace.

Results: As a result of the first phase we developed the solution that takes the images of these charts input data, recognizes each trace and generates the result file as a table with the needed metrics of pressure, temperature, water.
This solution is currently used by the customer’s employees and provides them with a high level of accuracy. 

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Client: Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment, Keith Tralins, CEO Stan Lee’s LA Comic ConLocation:  Los Angeles, CA"True Believer!:  The VR Experience (Teaser)"
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZK01dSsFSg
Stan Lee’s L.A. Comic Con (formerly Comikaze Expo) celebrates the most exciting developments in “geek” pop culture: comics, video games, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. The convention is attended by 90,000+ fans annually, but Lee and his team knew that many more across the globe were not able to attend and didn’t want them to miss out entirely. Recognizing the transportive power of VR, Stan and his team - a community of early adopters well-versed in VR - asked VPM to create a virtual experience of the convention. The video embedded above is a teaser of the larger, multi-part experience VPM constructed. It was used to create archival pieces so fans could get a taste of the convention experience and also to build a series of immersive advertisements.

 

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My Clean MovesThe main objective of the Pine-Sol’s #MyCleanMoves contest campaign was to tap into consumers’ need for fun cleaning sessions and use music to engage and rally them into sharing their dance moves.We launched a UGC Instagram contest that strengthened the link between cleaning and music, asking people to submit a photo of themselves cleaning while dancing for a chance to win a cash prize, Pandora subscriptions and Bluetooth speakers. 
This content plan centered around engagement and personalization with a focus on both General Market and Multicultural audiences.http://www.theaxisagency.com/pine-sol-my-clean-moves.html

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E3 Design has a long experience of designing products that are to be produced in high volume. Efficient material usage is critical for a cost effective manufacturing solution and our experience allows us to design products to optimise strength with minimun wall section. Consideration of cavitation in tooling, and how the product will be moulded and ejected are critical in the production process.We have significant in-house tool making experience with our Technical Director having started his career by completing a toolmaking apprenticeship and going on to become the Technical Director of a well-known Rapid Tooling and Manufacturing company.We often provide tooling consultancy and advice to our clients outside the actual design projects we are working on. Our approach to product aesthetics and economic material usage, combined with hands-on manufacturing experience and ergonomic design, has led to us working with some of the biggest companies in the world. Around 95% of everything E3d designs actually ends up in manufacture.

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Otboo is a healthcare app that provides a platform where you can easily book your preferred doctor as well as can track the live queue status of your appointment at your convenience and fingertips. It is one of the facile and convenient substitutes that can easily connect you with hundreds of local doctors and schedule your appointment accordingly. 
 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otboo.app
https://www.consagous.com/portfolio-consagous/otboo-doctors-appointment-scheduling-app/

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Tooshlights is the first and only restroom traffic management system that will increase traffic flow and efficiency in public restrooms by letting the guest know “where to go”.
When a stall is occupied, the smart latch is activated, the indicator light on the ceiling above the stall turns red. When the guest leaves the stall and opens the smart latch, the light turns green.
The smart latches communicate wirelessly with the indicator lights, which in turn are linked as a network to a wireless hub. The hub stores the usage frequency of each stall and communicates the information to the facility’s computer system. This information allows efficient scheduling of servicing, supplies and cleaning, by predicting service intervals based on usage. The system can also show if a stall goes down.
Occupancy information can also potentially be fed to an app, that can show a guest in a large venue which restroom has more open stalls.
Tooshlights came to M Industrial Design as a start up with just two employees and a simple working prototype. Our brief was to redesign and reengineer the Tooshlights to meet some tough design goals. The appearance design had to be beautiful enough to inspire architects to specify it, the housing had to accommodate electronics, switch and battery and be no wider than 1” to accommodate variable site conditions. It had to be rugged enough to withstand the public restroom environment.
M Industrial Design handled the design and engineering of the product, including the oversight of the electronics design of the smart latch, indicator and Hub.
MID also fabricated the first working prototypes, produced all production documentation and inspected and approved first article production parts.
Tooshlights has now been installed in several major airports and sports stadiums across the US and is well on its way to success.
 
 

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Proton therapy has many advantages. It effectively targets cancer cells while minimizing damage to healthy tissue and organs. But the experience isn't particularly easy on stressed patients. That's why when ProNova decided to design a more accessible version of the equipment, they came to us to help design the patient and technician experience.
We designed the overall experience including system aesthetics, general room layout, and information architecture of treatment interfaces, with the goals of increasing efficiency, accuracy and throughput.To begin, our team interviewed patients and technicians, observed treatment at several centers, and were trained on an existing proton therapy system. This culminated in a procedure workflow that identified improvement opportunities. The team continuously refined the workflow throughout the development process. To test our ideas, we brought technicians into a life-sized treatment suite prototype, going through scenarios for several types of  procedures using interface concepts on computer and paper. 

For patient comfort, we designed a more intimate treatment room that features a partially obscured nozzle that lessens the sense of the equipment's scale. Every piece of equipment that a technician or patient sees or touches has a modern, simple cover. The ceiling awning is strategically placed so a patient can watch a projected video during treatment to help the time pass.  
For technicians, we designed an elegant control pendant, console and single-action snout clamp. Digitally, we defined the workflow for each type of patient treatment and created the information architecture for the five touchpoints used during the procedure. Working with ProNova’s software team, we designed the process and the accompanying screens. We created the user-friendly, information-rich visual design of all digital interfaces. This includes the treatment room projections that communicate procedure status to increase technician efficiency. 

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The launch of a mortgage broking business called Mortgage Hype. This project was a full start to finish project with the team doing everything from branding right through to website design & development. From there the team was able to start building out effective and profitable marketing campaigns.

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TTT Studios built the iOS and Android app for FortisBC allowing British Columbians greater access to their utilities accounts online. The app allows FortisBC customers to view their current bill, billing history, report outages, and monitor energy consumption levels in their household. The app also integrates seamlessly with FortisBC's existing web portal.