Mark Howitt has worked for over 40 years in diverse industries developing and improving strategies, operations, products and services. He has set up thriving businesses, both stand-alone and subsidiary, and identified new markets for some, before identifying how best to address them: the key drivers of products and services. He is comfortable representing businesses and industries to governments and regulators. He is a serial innovator of business strategies, technologies and services in fields as diverse as:
- Non-destructive testing (technology and a new service business);
- Renewable energy (technologies, start-up entrepreneurship and finding suitable partners);
- Warehousing and distribution (service offering, new business set-up and strategy);
- Heavy equipment overhaul (strategy, new businesses, efficiency, process transformation, systems);
- Light manufacturing and diverse service industries (process efficiency, reporting, organisation – these service industries included finance, insurance, and property.
Mark is now offering his services to innovative businesses (or those that wish to be more so), as a retained board advisor, mentor, coach, non-executive director or consultant. Please see his website or his LinkedIn profile for more information.
Mark Howitt’s Services for Businesses and Investors
♦ Financial investors;
♦ Project developers;
♦ Energy industry companies and major off-takers;
♦ Large and medium businesses
♦ Startups and SMEs.
Such services include:
Company and project strategy and structures.
Assessing and developing responses to strategic and operational challenges.
Assessment of technologies and markets:
Viability and potential of new technologies;
Best markets and segments to target, and ways to approach them;
A mix of products and services best suited to each market and segment;
Identification and engagement of complementary businesses, technologies and services;
Competitive analysis.
Innovation:
Assessing innovations and their potential;
Technical and commercial development strategy;
Solving technical and design challenges;
Intellectual property advice.
Projects:
Integrating some or all of renewable generation and electricity/hydrogen storage, off-takers and grids, and industry;
Project strategy, inception and development.
Operational problem-solving and optimisation:
Systems and methods;
Process re-engineering and streamlining;
Management and efficiency;
Change management and other projects
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