From the high rise office tower in Rotterdam , Special Purpose Projects has been overlooking ( part of ) its working arena since June . Since 2019 , the Dutch entrepreneurial club has been play intensively with various outside horticultural ( engineering and exploitation ) companies , some of which one could point at from afar , so to verbalize .
Rutger Mans and Matthijs Visser are the Managing Directors of the party and they are confident that there are still a muckle of company with the potential to grow ( again ) . " ' We would care to help them with that , sooner as Centennial State - entrepeneurs . That ’s how we digest out , " Rutger explains sky-high .
Matthijs Visser and Rutger Mans look out over the Westland from the 10th floor of the berth pillar in Rotterdam where they are based .
Co - entrepreneurshipThe managing better half previously win experience as an operations managing director and strategy and transformation consultant , which comes in handy now that he is an entrepreneur engage growth together with other entrepreneurs . He started the business with Matthijs , who himself set up a incarnate venture in the energy sector and has many years of experience with fusion and acquisition .
" When discussing ontogeny for a company we often hear entrepreneurs say ' We ’ve tried a lot , but it did n’t figure out . ' In our experience , we learned that either the estimate or the feeler was n’t practiced ; often it is the latter or a combining of the two . It is on the nose with this approach that we avail entrepreneur . You may see us as consultants , but there are big difference in both our way of working and the quislingism cast . evolve ideas for renewed growth is a creative process where we formulate opportunities ; however , it is often not so simple to turn opportunities into results . adviser often move on when the idea is formulated and it is up to the enterpriser to translate that advice into actions and results . We believe in working together to make a success out of those opportunities . "
That is why co - entrepreneurship is the best option , according to Special Purpose Projects . " That path , both party bear the jeopardy and both benefit from the maturation . We are also active and involved in the years of carrying out to deform the plans into a world . This makes us investor too , only in a dissimilar way of life , " says Rutger .
Making an impactThis co - entrepreneurship can take place in various ways . " We prefer to do that by participating in a companionship with a minority or bulk parcel , but we might as well develop a new product together to help a company rise . Growth is always our start tip . We do n’t just want to improve company operationally , but also make an impact with a good maturation program , " say Matthijs .
' Making an shock ' is eminently possible in greenhouse farming , concord to Rutger . " We see a luck of potentiality in this sphere , so we are powerfully focused on it . We work for all kinds of SME ’s . We do not necessarily focus on the top of the market , but rather on the panoptic level of company below it .
If you take the air across any business arena you will find many great and small companionship . Behind all those doors are entrepreneurs who often cover with rudimentary doubt : What will be my position in a changing and consolidate market ? Am I going to take part ? Or am I not ? How long do I desire to stay with my company ? Where do I find out the right people ? Do I desire to collaborate ? Or merge ? And which markets will I focus on ? These are all questions we want to help entrepreneurs find answers to . "
coordinate for ( re)new(ed ) growthThe implementation of sound ideas requires more than a good architectural plan . For illustration , Special Purpose Projects has noticed that companies in the greenhouse horticulture sector are often still very much strung-out one single entrepreneur or manager . As a result of their organizational structure , sooner or afterwards these companies find their limits . " We often see that this is an obstacle to their future , " says Matthijs .
Rutger quote an model of a fellowship in which Special Purpose Projects became involve , a party that had a lot of new projection in the pipeline . At that time , an executive left and the successor did not have the right organizational experience . The ERP system want to be update and a Lean working method had to be apply in the execution of the projects . Because of the renew organization , the fellowship now bonk how to increase its added value for customers and achieve growth . "
Matthijs has another example . " At another troupe , the customer wanted to pursue the opportunity to develop in new athletic field which required the development of knowledge first . To that end , we arranged collaborations with knowledge partners and were thus able to serve the customer well together . "
Special Purpose labor target to create impact by looking at companies and industries through different lens
Getting involvedSpecial Purpose Projects prefers to take part actively in company . " That style , we also share the risks and are really involved . By working together , you compound the knowledge and experience that everyone brings , " says Rutger .
Matthijs adds that " it can sometimes help oneself to bring in outsiders with some distance from the open matter , to look at things from a different linear perspective . People who , for exercise , defy to ask whether the neighbor is really your competition . After all , could you not cooperate to get further together ? I recollect the tomato growers at Dutch cooperation Prominent are a good example of this . They really created something fresh together , making certain it ’s no longer every man for himself , and they have tapped into new markets as a termination . "
The desire to participate in a troupe raises the question whether there are boundary to what the Rotterdam - ground company can do . Rutger has no dubiousness about this . " The start level is to add up up with new skillful mind for ontogenesis . If business architectural plan are estimable enough , we do n’t see a lack of funds . We have fiscal possibilities to invest ourselves and a connection with investors who can connect in where necessary . " Matthijs adds that " we apply the same glide path for our party as for ourselves . "
peculiar Purpose labor require to steadily boom the numeral of company in which it co - invests . Selling companionship is also an option . " That bet entirely on the desire of an entrepreneur . If they desire to stop after achieving one more success , then we will make a plan and we sour together to ensure that the company is quick to be taken over after a sure point in time . We make party unchanging and quick for future growth , " says Matthijs .
For more information : Rutger MansMatthijs VisserSpecial Purpose Projects[email protected]www.specialpurposeprojects.com
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