QLBS Centers of Excellence combine the best solutions from our software platform and offer a virtual hosted environment where various stakeholders can gather to access the knowledge platform and resources built around a specific focus area.
Example of a Virtual Center of Excellence for an Economic Development Agency:
QLBS built a web based resource center designed for the Business Capacity Building Agency, to strengthen the Business Community and the supporting industry of organizational and skills development institutions. This Center will “plug and play” into the Agency’s website as part of its support of the business community. Different stakeholders will have access to different resources.
The Entrepreneur or Business Manager will be able to:
- Access an on-line library of Best Practices against which they can test themselves. These tools will give the Entrepreneur an idea of the organizational skills and capabilities they need to acquire in order to grow and develop their businesses. These tools could include:
- Entrepreneur readiness
- Business Fitness
- Export Fitness
- Fit for Finance
- Understand their organizational development needs and priorities.
- Visualize their strengths and weaknesses
- Benchmark themselves against the industry
- Develop a priority list for improvement
- Develop an organizational improvement plan
- Setting out priority improvement needs
- Getting help from mentors, consultants or online resources
- Monitor and manage improvement over time
- Ensuring the development of a continuous improvement process
- Access a network both socially and professionally through event management, blogs and forums