Roger Croft

Current

• Managing Director at PRD Partnership Ltd
• Owner at Swift (Sole Proprietorship)
• Business Skills at University of Bath

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Education

• Excellence South West
• University of Bath
• University of Stirling

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Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Roger Croft’s Summary

Current goals are to develop the workshop/training function of PRD Partnership. We have 4 experts in different topical areas that focus on different areas of personal development. Coaching and Mentoring, Leadership and Management, Creativity and Innovation, and Strategic thinking.


All of the team are educated to Masters level and have indepth experience of delivering business skills (Including myself!).

Current examples (October 08) :

Delivering 2 MBA modules on New Venture Creation and Franchising
Just about to start a programme of 50 workshops covering performance management, business planning, leadership and managment.

Roger Croft’s Specialties:

Investigating and developing new products and markets, Strategic planning, recovery, DTI Mentor for "Investigating an innovative idea", Sticky Strategy workshops, Motivation and Change management, action learning facilitator training

Roger Croft’s Experience

• Managing Director

  PRD Partnership Ltd

  (Management Consulting industry)

  February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

  PRD Partnership enables companies to commercialise their ideas. We provide proven innovation processes that enable companies to access new markets, deliver new products, or improve within existing products or services to existing customers.
  
  Part of this function is enabling personal development, and to this end we have been delivering workshops in a number of areas. These are now formalised and available in a training format.
  
  Our workshops last from a few hours to 10 day programmes and cover the following topics:
  
  Creativity and Innovation
  Strategic Thinking
  Leadership and Management
  Coaching and Mentoring
  
  "things" we do do
  
  Creativity or innovation audits
  Business or Strategic Plans
  Feasibility Studies
  Market Research and Analysis
  Brand analysis
  Business model analysis
  Coaching and Mentoring
  Workshops and training
  
  We do not do:
  Legal work (including patents)
  Accounting
  Marketing Communications
  Life Coaching
  
  ..... but do ask and we can connect you to someone who does

• Owner

  Swift (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

  April 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

  Swift provides strategic help through:
  
  Open strategy workshops - www.sticky-strategy.com
  Breaking the Mould - http://www.breakingthemould.co.uk/
  One to one strategy workshops
  Financial and strategic analysis
  Investigating an innovative idea - DTI scheme to help new ideas develop an action plan that can aid the commercialisation process
  
  Swift are happy to have a free meeting if you are local to Wiltshire, or a phone call discussion at any time to investivate how we can help.

• Business Skills

  University of Bath

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2002 — Present (6 years 11 months)

  Writing and delivering business skill programmes typically 20 hours
  Examples include - business planning, Leadership and Management
  
  Organising, developing and promoting seminars on business topics
  Examples include topics from Marketing, Finance, Risk, Motivation, Strategy and planning

Additional Information

Roger Croft’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Roger Croft’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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