Helping ideas transform organisations™

I help organisations invent and re-invent themselves — their strategies, business models and brands — to adapt to the imperatives of sustainability and technological change.

An internet professional for 20 years, entrepreneur since 1993, management consultant since 1998, I have a particular passion for new ventures.

My industry focus is on tourism, leisure & travel; arts and cultural institutions; and societal transformation. My work spans the Global 2000 and garage start-ups, the public and private sectors, first world and developing economies.
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kurt@imagineer.cc
www.imagineer.cc

Cape Town
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Chicago
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Tourism, Leisure & Travel
  • Developing the Responsible Tourism communications strategy for the City of Cape Town (Best Destination: 2009 Responsible Tourism Awards)

  • Creating the marketing strategy to promote a Host City of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup™

  • Facilitating strategy development to aggressively grow through acquisition and organic growth one of Africa's largest and most dominant tourism companies.

  • Defining technologies and detailed requirements to implement a visitor services strategy for one of the world's leading tourism destinations.

  • Creating an action plan for greening the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup™ in one of the Host Cities.

  • Assessing the feasibility of seven new tourism trails for a UN Biosphere Reserve.

  • Developing an organisational unification strategy and business plan for the merger of three regional tourism organisations.

  • Re-focusing the strategy of the leading African tourism publishing brand.

  • Developing Responsible Tourism guidelines for a major city.

  • Developing new business models to re-engineer 17 government institutions in order to deliver on the re-branding of one of the world's top tourist destinations.

  • Developing an award-winning business plan for a responsible tourism transactional portal.

  • Helping a major airline re-align business processes to become more customer-centric and develop an authentic service culture.

Arts & Cultural Institutions
  • Developing content for a 12 hour documentary film on a people's history of apartheid.

  • Developing content for a 13-part TV documentary series on art and landscape in South Africa.

  • Advising on business planning and marketing strategy as part of the establishment of an informal educational institution honouring a nobel peace laureate.

  • Managing a high profile exhibition of contemporary visual and performing arts in a major city with a multi-million dollar budget and a one hundred member team across three continents.

Societal Transformations
  • Co-managing an electricity savings campaign for the City of Cape Town, Energy & Climate Change Branch, targeting middle- to high-income households in Cape Town, to drive behaviour change resulting in a minimum 10% reduction in electricity consumption for the entire city.

  • Co-managing the Climate Smart Cape Town Campaign to raise public awareness about Climate Change among Capetonians and to represent Cape Town at the COP17 conference in Durban.

  • Conducting a holistic programmatic review of the Treatment Action Campaign's work on HIV/Aids and TB from 2007-2010 as part of an end of funding cycle evaluation for a major international donor.

  • Developing an integrated communications strategy for a provincial government branch that is facilitating changes in systems, processes and thinking to enable e-government and an e-society.

  • Advising a national government on holistic policy toward Open Source Software and Open Content.

  • Assessment, development and development facilitation of:
    • Business strategies
    • Business plans
    • Business cases
    • Competitive analysis
    • Market segmentation
    • Marketing strategies
    • Systems requirements
    • Business models
  • Project management for large budget, complex, high-risk or high profile projects

  • Tender, proposal and presentation development, support and coaching

  • Positioning firms for investment or acquisition

  • Raising finance, including development and empowerment finance

  • Strategic communications, including white paper and article writing, design, and production for paper, e-mail, web and presentation

  • Technical skills include:
    • Strategy formulation
    • Business analysis
    • Business process analysis, mapping, engineering
    • System requirements definition
    • Project management
    • Technical writing
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