Welcome to The Nation Consultancy.
We are the pioneers in creating effective methodology for any country, region, city or administration that wants to build an international reputation (its Nation Brand) - for the purpose of achieving its vision for economic success fast, sustainably, for all of its people, and in keeping with its cultural heritage.
This isn’t just an idea, a theory. Although our work is often private, we have developed concepts and strategies for five countries, with support in each one from private public sectors – CEOs, Associations and Government Ministers.
The noted international economist, Lord Meghnad Desai, Professor Emeritus Of Economic Development at the London School of Economics, and Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister of India, has endorsed our methodology, as the modern solution to otherwise ineffective “push” development.
Dr Jules Goddard – Fellow of the London Business School; Member of the Academic Committee of The European Centre for Executive Development at INSEAD – supports the concept and specifically endorses our key point. Which is that competition, contrary to conventional economic theory, is not about price, but about the distinctive value to the consumer – which applies to nations as much as to companies.
The widely acclaimed scholar and author on Nation Branding, Dr. Keith Dinnie , of the University of Dundee Business School endorses it too.
Disruptive Economic Development.
Our methodology (IEMED™) is based on the effective – and proven – techniques of successful global corporations, though deliberately adapted by us for market-led economic development.
What is totally new – and disruptive – is how those techniques can serve
the economic needs of a whole nation – or a region, a city, or a sector.
We call this methodology IEMED™ – Integrated Export Marketing for Economic (and social) Development. It blends economics, social objectives, cultural considerations and government policies. This is how to achieve truly significant and measurable improvements in GDP per head at the same time as equivalent growth in the livelihoods of citizens and their communities – in the towns and deep in the countryside.
The disruption comes from the fact that if development organisations put a relatively small amount of money into the structures and the selected enterprises in our scheme, not only will the growth come much faster, but it will be self-financing. Our work is designed to create profits, before they are equitably distributed. Our research provides evidence to help these businesses raise their own capital, and their profits can then be fed back into the system to accelerate the growth.
We found a way of replacing “push development” with a commercially-based and more effective form of “pull development”. Our methodology (IEMED™) is based on adopting the effective – and proven – techniques of successful global corporations and adapting them to national, market-led economic development.
It works.
It lifts people out of poverty.
It lifts countries – from LDC status to medium, from medium to high income, from high to a new and inclusive plane.
It is simple.
It is applicable to any economy, worldwide.
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Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery Statement.
We are a British Company and abide by British and EU Laws.
We are committed to conducting business ethically in every country in which we operate, and comply with all applicable laws.
We aim to compete fairly, and to win business because of the quality of our unique services, not on any other basis.