Much has happened with Barker Consulting Partners since the last blog entry almost two years ago. As fall begins, the changing of seasons has inspired us to turn over a new leaf and re-focus some of our efforts to rejoining our blog community. As of today, we are determined to keep our readers up to date on the progress of BCP as well as relevant news.

Back in 2010, Barker Consulting Partners announced the launch of the company on this blog, highlighting the Value in Complexity model. This continues to be the driving force behind our business philosophy. Though BCP has adapted over the past two years, we continue to help clients and partners find value in difficult and complex situations where others may not be able to. In fact, we see this as a distinctive competency.

As planned, our consulting business has nourished lasting relationships with clients and led to a small portfolio of equity stakes in interesting companies. We’ll speak more about these in the coming weeks.

Also, we are currently focusing our time working with a company on a business launch development and another with a product launch.

Check back soon for a big announcement regarding our newest partners.

As promised, Barker Consulting Partners has informally introduced one of its Special Initiatives, CalibraxKPI, in a limited way.  While we will not publish the actual Web 500: The Global Survey of Strategic Online Performance and Brand Values (TM) until later,  we are beginning to discuss with professional friends their reaction to the service offering of CalibraxKPI scores as a way of measuring strategic online performance.  See my CalibraxKPI blog.

Times are tough!  We’re undergoing the slowest recovery in the US for all but its oldest living generation.  Globally, the lackluster economy is said to be the cause of many instances of social unrest.  But history shows that some of the most vibrant firms of today were started in tough economic times.  Ten years from now, we want that said of Barker Consulting Partners.

The launch of this blog also marks the launch of Barker Consulting Partners, a company dedicated to helping clients discover and nurture value, even in complex situations.

Reluctant at first to affixing my name to that of the company, I have been convinced by others I trust that doing so is not a matter of excessive pride but a way of communicating the personal commitment that the partners and I each make with respect to excellence and the ability to create value in complex situations.

We offer clients advice on two broad matters: business fundamentals and business development.

Business Fundamentals.  We’ve trademarked SALES PEOPLE MONEY® as the descriptor of the categories in which most fundamental business challenges are found: building revenue, managing staff and preserving financial resources.  While we can help in each of these areas discretely, we prefer assignments where we become sufficiently trusted by our clients to develop plans and help execute them across all of these challenges.

In some cases, we take some of our fees in equity making us look more like a private equity firm than a consultant.  That’s OK with us; we’d prefer fewer clients with deeper relationships than many clients with superficial relationships.

Business Development. Think three types: organic growth, applying SALES PEOPLE MONEY® with our clients, establishing break-out units and helping with acquisitions.

Again, for select clients, we consider taking some of our fees for this service in equity interests.  We’ll begin posting descriptions of these in our Special Initiatives section of the Barker Consulting Partners website.  I’ll be offering a sneak peak of one of these, called CalibraxKPI, very soon — prior to what we hope to be a more formal launch next month.

So keep checking in: despite the tough economic times, we have great projects we’re working on and will be announcing soon.