Congratulations to Dan Shundoff and Intellicom for presenting as part of Nebraska’s Department of Economic Development’s Reverse Trade Mission. The goal of the Reverse Trade Mission is to host international companies interested in doing business with Nebraska and to give them an opportunity to see and learn what Nebraska has to offer. The Reverse Trade Mission showcases Nebraska and helps international business leaders recognize Nebraska’s Excellence in various areas. Participants attended seminars on Nebraska’s business investment climate highlighting an aggressive incentive package, availability of sites and buildings, utility costs, infrastructure, the low cost of living and the high quality of life.
In front of a global audience, Dan was able to share a little bit about Intellicom and talk about the business growth that we are experiencing here in Nebraska. Much of Intellicom’s recent success, Dan attributes to Intellicom participating in the Gallup EAS program, The program is designed to help strengthen Nebraska small businesses and startup enterprises through mentorship. The initiative combines business-to-business mentors and a Gallup entrepreneur consulting program to provide business development assistance to early-stage entrepreneurs and established firms with high-growth potential. It is aimed at creating a new generation of homegrown business success stories in Nebraska.
To watch the presentation in its entirety, please follow the following link: https://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=f4hhgq
Intellicom has been selected to participate in new program launched by Gov. Dave Heineman, and several sponsoring partners; including the Nebraska Department of Economic Development, The Gallup Organization, the Greater Omaha Chamber, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The program is designed to help strengthen Nebraska small businesses and startup enterprises through mentorship.
The initiative will combine business-to-business mentors and a Gallup entrepreneur consulting program to provide business development assistance to early-stage entrepreneurs and established firms with high-growth potential. It is aimed at creating a new generation of homegrown business success stories in Nebraska.
The 2010 Battelle Innovation study included a recommendation to provide training and mentoring for small businesses in high-growth industries. It will match certified business mentors with small business leaders to help accelerate growth and create greater likelihood of long-term success.
Approximately 30 volunteer small business and economic development leaders took part in a workshop hosted by Gallup to become certified mentors who will work with several small and start-up businesses across the state over the next two years.
Built on years of research and consulting experience, Gallup’s Entrepreneur Acceleration System (EAS) will be used to support and track the progress of participating businesses. The effort has potential to help 400 businesses statewide during the next two years. Mentors and the small businesses and entrepreneurs were identified by project sponsors and represent several of Nebraska’s high-growth industries.
Intellicom today announced it has achieved a Silver Desktop and a Silver Volume Licensing Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network, demonstrating its ability to meet Microsoft customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment. To earn a Microsoft Silver Competency, partners must complete a set of tests to prove their level of technology expertise, submit customer references and employ or contract required number of Microsoft Certified Professionals who are skilled on current technology relevant for the competency.
“This Silver Competency showcases our expertise in today’s technology market and demonstrates our knowledge of Microsoft and their products,” said Bryan Kuntz, VP of Operations. “We hope to accelerate our customers’ success by serving as technology advisors for their business demands.”
“By achieving a Silver Competency, partners have proven themselves as specialized technology experts with the skills needed to best serve customers,” said Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp. “The Silver Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network is designed to help customers identify services and solution providers that have demonstrated proof of their capability to deliver quality outcomes and customer satisfaction.”
The Microsoft Partner Network is designed to equip organizations that deliver products and services through the Microsoft platform with the training, resources and support they need to provide their customers superior experience and outcomes.
Dan Shundoff, owner of Intellicom, was recently interviewed by NxBizSuccess. NxBizSuccess started as a shared vision between Community Development Resources, Inc. (CDR) and the NebraskaEDGE program (EDGE), located at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After 15 years of providing loans and business plan training, CDR and EDGE saw the need to move beyond the classroom to the dynamic world of interactive education. That is the vision of NxBizSuccess, to add life to ideas, to share experiences and knowledge, to find resources to make it happen and to bring together like-minded people who see Nebraska as a great place to start a business.
In the interview, Mr. Shundoff talks about the success Intellicom has realized by partnering with the University of Nebraska at Kearney and utilizing their internship program as a source of new employees.
To see the entire interview, click here:
http://www.nxbizsuccess.com/archives/1936
I am entering my 8th year of employment here at Intellicom and I have to say it has taken me a while to adapt to working with a bunch of Engineers and Web Developers. Although sometimes challenging, it does come with its own unique set of benefits. I have put together my very own top 5 list of reasons it is good to work with IT folks:
5. There is always junk food and caffeine around! Coke, Mountain Dew, doughnuts, beef jerky, breakfast burritos, and gas station hot dogs must be the jet fuel of the IT sector because that is the typical breakfast of champions around here.
4. I can now recite all the words to the movie Office Space.
3. If you ever need to borrow a cell phone/mini-hub/camera/leatherman/jump drive/flashlight/mp3 player/insert other various gadget name here….there is not only a good chance that someone has one, but it is probably also clipped to their belt!
2. I have found out that human conversation is not only over rated but completely unnecessary. Why actually talk to someone when you can e-mail, text, IM, or Facebook them??? This can happen even when you are in the same room. Genius!
1. There is always someone around willing to give you free technical support for your home pc, surround sound, HDTV, X-box360, etc!
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