Sample of Consulting Projects

• Pharmercure

  Area: Pharmaceutical
  Year: 2021

  

  Is a start-up company operating in the pharmaceutical field that makes it possible to order any product that can be bought in a pharmacy, including prescription drugs, and receive them conveniently at home the same day

  Results:
  - Develop marketing strategy for B2C market
  - Formulate marketing campaign through competitor analysis and online questionnaire.

• Seagreen

  Area: Naval design
  Year: 2021

  

  Sea Green Engineering is a naval design company founded with the idea of creating a flexible and dynamic reality.
  
  It consists of highly specialised Naval Architects and Maritime Engineers with a network of collaborators providing a multidisciplinary team capable of tackling any design challenge with quality and efficiency.

  Results:
  - Market research for the 'Farad' super capacitor ferry prototype.
  - Drafting of the business plan to present three ferry versions to investors and/or ship owners.

• Microlab

  Area: Social inclusion
  Year: 2021

  

  MicroLab is an association that exclusively pursues social solidarity purposes. In practical terms, it offers free training, business mentoring and job orientation to all those who are socially and economically disadvantaged.

  Results:
  - Crowdfunding initiative in support of the 'Woman To Be Free' project
  - Drafting of the social balance sheet report

• Dott

  Area: Electric mobility
  Year: 2020

  

  The company asked to 180dc Turin for an external and unbiased analysis of the electric mobility sector in order to implement a go - to - market strategy in new European countries;
  So our project team conducted a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the industry in search of trends, opportunities and success factors.

  Results:
  - Sharing with DOTT the results of market research and consequent implementations.
  - Increase competitiveness through competitor analysis.

• Visionary

  Area: Events association
  Year: 2019

  

  The association needed to create an internal Business Plan to understand the current situation of the association in the "Events" market.
  The 180dc team created a Business Plan from scratch, analysing competitors and deepening the value proposition.

  Results:
  - Better understanding of position in the marketplace.
  - Discovery of weaknesses and opportunities.

• Amnesty International

  Area: Merchandising and comunication develoment
  Year: 2017

  

  Merchandising and Communication Plan for Amnesty International:
  •Statistic Data about Turin
  •Mapping
  • Events
  •Communication and advertising
  

  Results:
  1. Merchandise planning (both sales and orders) and Local Communication strategy (channels to use, messages to deliver etc.)
  2. Reading to the public, benefit events, sports tournaments, itineration training course, artistic performance, social media, sponsors, and crowdfunding.

• Serming

  Area: Warehouse management
  Year: 2017

  

  Sermig is one of the biggest Onlus in Italy, for sure the biggest in Turin.
  Its social commitment regards several areas: welcoming and supporting to homeless people and immigrants, social integration for immigrants, training and sections for youngsters on themes as global leaving and communitarian values, and after-school activities to children in the area.
  There is a logistic issue: different volunteers can access the warehouse
  (estimated warehouse value = 200.000 euros)
  It is difficult to control the regular flow of the merchandising (what is coming in, what is going out, and what is the value of the total sales produced)

  Our solution:
  1° step: analysis of the situation.
  2° step: structuring the Solution: an open-access Online Form.
  Final result
  A Google Form accessible by every volunteer who can write what he has taken out from or has put inside the warehouse with an automatic check on the management tool.
  Only the administrator has control over the management tool generate, to easily monitor the WH flows, values, actual status, and to secure a solid data structure.
  Impacts:
  1. A huge reduction of time spent to monitor and check the WH values for the WH supervisor (a paid worker)
  2. The possibility to generate coherent invoices, precise and reliable, with a constant awareness of the WH flows values.
  3. The possibility to measure consistently the WH impacts in terms of the official social report, increasing the value of the Onlus activities.

• ESSERCI

  Area: Digital development
  Year: 2016

  

  ESSERCI is a Cooperative of type A which deals with human services, in response to the needs of the local community. It‘s a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to give citizenship to the rights and needs of individuals, families and local communities.
  Two different teams (Project A and B) got involved in order to meet the client needs.
  Project A Phase 1: enhance the efficiency of the Database: how to extract and manage data of Human Resources and Projects.
  Project A Phase 2: development of the handbook in order to customize it for client’s goals and to spread the knowledge of the Database within ESSERCI.
  Project B Phase 1: enhancing the efficiency of the server.
  Project Phase 2: training sessions and handbook development.
  

  Project A Phase 1
  HR Management: Only one DB extraction is sufficient to obtain all the relevant information regarding the employees/volunteers.
  Projects Management
  Only one DB extraction is sufficient to obtain the relevant information regarding all the ongoing projects in one Excel file.
  Project A Phase 2
  Thanks to 180 DC commitment every current and future employee/manager of the Cooperative has access to a detailed source of information about the Database.
  The client can now easily replicate the queries and save time and money for the data management. The information for the top management is clear and detailed and every employee can extract it.
  Project B Phase 1
  Improved flexibility of working and time spent to obtain managerial data Loss/theft/compromised server risk reduction
  Project B Phase 2
  Increased the knowledge about the tool - Developed a tool in order to transmit the knowledge
  

• H4O

  Area: Ops and Planning; Communication and Marketing
  Year: 2015

  

  Organization:
  H4O is an Italian NGO aiming to improve and ensure the physical and moral integrity and dignity of all humans. The Organization operates in Madagascar and its final goal is to improve the sanitary conditions for the local population to enable communities to start growing independently.
  
  Project:
  180DC’s collaboration with H4O can be outlined in two main workstreams:
  1) Ops and Planning: research of possible national advocacies and financial support; creation of an effective accounting tool; definition of a logistics program to transfer materials from Italy to Africa.
  2) Communication and Marketing: definition of a new communications strategy (with the aim of gaining more visibility locally and internationally); organization of marketing events; creation of a new Facebook page and website Q&A.
  
  Project Outcomes:
  1) Achievement of the Piedmont County Advocacy and Financial Support;
  2) New collaboration with the Pharmacy Faculty of Turin to start producing drugs in Madagascar to improve the life expectancy of the population;
  3) 100+ posts in three months and1,000+ likes on Facebook page.

  “180 Degrees Consulting made our Organization Scale to levels we have never even thought of and gave us the hope that a better World is something we can actually achieve.”