Interview Profile: Birgitta

CONSULTING WITH A CONSULTANT
As some of our loyal readers might recall, in the infant stages of the Future Uninc., we had come across a fellow consultant from the area while taking a video course at a local university. We had lunch together the day we met and we learned of our mutual passion for consulting (it made her late for her next meeting). She helped us to develop our ability to communicate about our important work with Finns by translating important business terms. Last week Birgitta came for a site visit/ interview. We were impressed with her professionalism and with HOW MUCH ADVICE she had for us!!

Click on the paper above to see our notes on the consultation.
We anticipated some friendly competition with our new acquaintance, but it turns out our fears and excitement were unnecessary. Birgitta had no interest in a competitive relationship, she took us on as any good entrepreneur would: she used the term collaboration when describing some hypothetical business plans for our two firms, but what she was referring to is called a congeneric merger, which occurs when two merging firms are in the same general industry, but they have no mutual buyer/customer or supplier relationship. She is a sly business tycoon.

Here is one of the plans she surprised us with:


This was a map of a plan for expansion that could happen in several stages to the Future Unincorporated office. No plans were agreed upon. With a little EU support, she planted all sorts of ideas for future expansion. Click to enlarge.

She also brought some gifts: from her corporation to ours. There was a lot of fast talking and numbers being thrown around. We are not sure if anything was agreed on, but we are not sure because we don't speak the same language as our clients.