Spero Consulting

Inno­v­a­tive Man­age­ment Solutions

We pro­vide con­fi­den­tial advi­sory, con­sult­ing, and train­ing ser­vices to firms, organizations, and indi­vid­u­als across sev­eral fields. We answer ques­tions like:

1. How do I get what I want?

Decision-​making & Man­age­r­ial Con­trol involve deter­min­ing the best ways to accom­plish your goals, includ­ing the best way to get sub­or­di­nates to suc­cess­fully imple­ment actions to accom­plish those goals.

Our control-​related exper­tise allows us to quickly iden­tify prob­lems and pro­pose inno­v­a­tive solu­tions in a vari­ety of fields like gen­eral man­age­ment, includ­ing the design of incen­tives and infor­ma­tion sys­tems, and related fields like account­ing and finance. We abhor unin­tended con­se­quences (due to shal­low or wish­ful thinking) so we con­sider and explain all fac­tors related to how best to make both spe­cial and rou­tine deci­sions – as well as how to suc­cess­fully imple­ment those choices.

We work with, and cre­ate value, for firms or orga­ni­za­tions of any size: from mega-​sized multi-​nationals to sole-​proprietors.

2. How should I think about (and con­trol) risk?

We expertly per­form (and explain) advanced quan­ti­ta­tive mod­el­ing and analy­ses, includ­ing val­u­a­tion and risk analy­sis.

For exam­ple, we care­fully model mar­ket and eco­nomic phe­nom­ena and empha­size both the strengths and weak­nesses of var­i­ous approaches that are avail­able. This prac­tice, which often focuses on all that could go wrong, both sup­ple­ments and com­ple­ments our man­age­r­ial con­trol prac­tice, e.g., the inte­gra­tion of man­age­r­ial con­trol and risk man­age­ment.

3. Who should I hire to help me hire others?

By uti­liz­ing our broad sub­ject mat­ter exper­tise, small and medium-​sized orga­ni­za­tions ben­e­fit from our ancil­lary ser­vices like spe­cial­ized tal­ent recruit­ment and assess­ment. As orga­ni­za­tions grow and require employ­ees with spe­cial skills and tal­ents in account­ing, finance, infor­ma­tion, etc., we use our subject-​matter exper­tise to deter­mine the most qual­i­fied can­di­dates so the client doesn’t hire some­one who was “all-​talk and is no action.”

Cre­ative Web Design & MIS Development

1. Do good-​looking, easily-​managed web sites exist?

Yes, BUT, there is much more to good web site design than how a site looks. If you don’t think so, then you need to con­tact us.

We use open-​source web appli­ca­tions to build easily-​managed, search-​engine-​optimized, attrac­tive, and well-​organized sites. Given their fea­tures and over­all func­tion­al­ity, our sites are sur­pris­ingly afford­able and very quick to construct.

Read about our approach here, or visit our sep­a­rate and com­pre­hen­sive web design site.

It’s not just about hav­ing a web pres­ence. It’s about hav­ing a pow­er­ful mar­ket­ing and man­age­ment tool to gen­er­ate rev­enue, max­i­mize prof­its, and make your busi­ness eas­ier to manage.

Regard­less of the size of firm, your site should be: (1) easy for a non-​technical per­son to self-​manage; (2) search-​engined opti­mized, and (3) pro­vide infor­ma­tion about vis­i­tors: who are they, how they came to your site, and what they saw. That feed­back about guests – and the site’s ease-​of-​use – allow own­ers to adjust their mes­sage to attract their tar­get mar­ket or to dis­cover new oppor­tu­ni­ties in related mar­kets. That’s the real power of the internet.

We pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive design and devel­op­ment ser­vices: graph­ics; con­tent devel­op­ment; pho­tog­ra­phy; and inte­gra­tion with web stores and advanced forms, and pay­ment proces­sors like PayPal.

Clients ben­e­fit from our expe­ri­ence and time invested find­ing and eval­u­at­ing the best open-​source appli­ca­tions and plu­g­ins, like our .mobi tem­plate, which pro­vides an opti­mized cell-​phone view­ing expe­ri­ence, and our trans­la­tion ser­vice that per­mits read­ers to dis­cover your site in over 40 lan­guages. We also share our knowl­edge of search-​engine opti­miza­tion tech­niques; it’s eas­ier and cheaper to get to the top than you think.

We can also help with ancil­lary ser­vices like over­all pub­lic rela­tions and mar­ket­ing campaigns.

2. Do you build cus­tom infor­ma­tion systems?

Yes, we use the same open-​source web appli­ca­tions and our exper­tise in infor­ma­tion eco­nom­ics to build robust, secure, afford­able, and cus­tom, web-​based man­age­ment infor­ma­tion systems.

We empha­size what other con­sul­tants, sys­tem design­ers, and man­u­fac­tur­ers don’t: the behav­ioral impli­ca­tions of design choices. Tech­nol­ogy is impor­tant, but the key to effec­tive man­age­r­ial con­trol is deter­min­ing how sys­tems and poli­cies, includ­ing infor­ma­tion sys­tems, affect employee behav­ior to drive the results that you seek. Every­thing else is secondary.