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Consulting for companies and entrepreneurs, consultation of business ideas

For whom?

  • entrepreneurs, self-employed, start-up and established companies
  • with a branch or headquarters in the Ústí Region
  • students and people with an idea for a business even without an ID

What can you discuss with us?

Do you have an idea for a business, are you building a business plan, are you dealing with finances, marketing, customers... in short, everything related to business?

You need an outside view and feedback on your business, expert advice on marketing, business, internal processes, innovation... from experienced entrepreneurs, CEOs or experts in the field.

Contact us at our Business clinic! We will help you steer your business in the right direction, we will help you assess your business idea and its viability.

5 hours of initial consultations with us or a selected expert for the start of your business or company development.

What do you get?

  • An outside view and feedback on your business from experienced entrepreneurs, CEOs or experts in the field
  • Expert advice on marketing, business, internal processes, innovation
  • Recommendations for further development of your idea or business in the programs of ICUK or other organizations
  • Overview of subsidy opportunities

 

5 hours

free initial consultations

Consultation topics

  • Finance

  • Marketing

  • Business plan

  • I have an idea

  • Trade

  • Internal processes

  • Innovation

Our experts

Laura Mitrolios

Position: Executive, Co-founder

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Circular economy and sustainability
  • New products
  • Corporate strategy
  • Packaging and waste management
  • Non-financial reporting

EXPERIENCES

  • In the field of banking, as a process manager, she implemented a new product on the Czech market into the bank's internal processes.
  • After leaving banking, she joined the management of the Institute of Circular Economy, her job was to create a stable and financially self-sufficient organization without grants and subsidies, and she succeeded.
  • Today, he passes on his experience to other new organizations and projects. Throughout his career, he has been developing new products, setting up processes and dedicated himself to leading employees and other team members and setting up healthy financial functioning of organizations.

Radek Škornička

Position: Marketer, interim manager

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Marketing with experience in FMCG and retail

EXPERIENCES

  • Total rebranding and relaunch of 2 strong Czech brands (Teta drug store, Balakryl paints) incl. building marketing teams, redefinition of the product portfolio, media planning, briefing and implementation.  He won the 2015 Effie Award for the rebuilding of Teta
  • Responsibility for B2C communication. Briefing and execution of ATL and BTL campaigns.

Ales Holan

Position: Startup coach and mentor, team manager, lecturer at the University of Economics

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Sales and team management
  • Strategy and business development management
  • Start-up
  • Marketing management

EXPERIENCES

  • Area of medium and long-term sales projects
  • Stabilization and development of the division
  • Team management
  • Marketing plan

Radek Vana

Position: Head of IDEALAB agency. Publisher of magazines, books and podcasts

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Marketing and public relations
  • PR and communication campaigns, especially in the field of architecture, design and the real estate market

EXPERIENCES

  • He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University, Department of Aesthetics and Theory of Culture (1999). He completed his doctoral studies at the Department of Theory of Culture in 2004.
  • Since 1999, he regularly publishes in Czech and foreign professional magazines, lectures and conducts independent professional courses in the field of marketing and public relations.
  • He specializes in design, architecture and the real estate market. In the years 2004-2006, he was a teacher at the Prague University of Economics (Practical Journalism I and II course).
  • Since 2019, he has been the publisher of the architectural magazine ARCHIZOOM, and since 2022 he has been the publisher of the print magazine Facility Management Journal.

František Horák

Position: Expert in branding and communication strategy, Desing Thinking mentor, founder of Perfect Planet studio

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • The need for a brand for external and internal communications
  • Brand design, redesign
  • Branding on selected company materials
  • UX concept proposals for a website or application, selection of a technical solution and management of the implementation project

EXPERIENCES

  • I have come a long way in design. From basic graphic work, I got to
    management of creative processes, he learned to look for and identify the reasons why things are designed and what it is like
    their goal. Design and branding must not work on the level of like/dislike, but on the level of work/doesn't work.
    Every project deserves a quality brand that can be presented to the public and under which people can trust
    they stand out proudly.

David Hůla

Position: Business consultant (marketing/e-commerce)

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Vision, mission and strategy of the company
  • Business concept
  • Marketing strategy, activation plan
  • E-commerce concept
  • Brand building

EXPERIENCES

  • Change of brand position on the market, brand attractiveness
  • Uniform presentation of products in the sales network
  • Introducing a product or a new brand to the market
  • Building a business-marketing strategy
  • Interim management
  • PR communication

Michael Becker

Position: Design/Photography/Graphics

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Development of brand, logo, corporate/corporate identity
  • Media
  • Product photo
  • Production of graphic materials

EXPERIENCES

  • I am an expert in brand development, CI (corporate identity) design, implementation, production of graphic materials including collateral materials, catalogs, brochures, all printed and online materials, website.

Jana Hamanová

Position: Director, SCAC executive

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Market research - market potential, competitor analysis
  • Definition of the target group
  • Concept testing, market potential testing
  • Mediation

EXPERIENCES

  • 30 years of market research experience
  • Member of ESOMAR
  • Project coordination and management
  • Management and leadership of the company, teams
  • Consulting, analytical activity

Lukáš Jánošík

Position: Marketer, Mentor, Speaker

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Strategic management
  • Strategic marketing
  • Product development
  • Promotion, PR and sales support
  • Optimization
  • Mentoring in life issues and the higher meaning of our work and personal actions

EXPERIENCES

  • Lukáš gradually worked his way up from a junior position to the top management of the Catherine company and, together with the owners, participated in the top management of the company, which employed more than 100 people and operated in dozens of foreign markets.
  • Due to his personal focus, life experiences, but also education and work competences, he mainly offers strategic management, strategic marketing, mentoring in life issues and a higher sense of our work and personal actions.

Martin Mikulašek

Position: Centrum zdraví, s.r.o., managing director

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Management of business teams - selection, motivation, development
  • Marketing
  • Management of the distribution network

EXPERIENCES

  • Product development
  • Work on the definition of target groups and campaigns
  • Training and development of the distribution network (banking, non-banking)
  • Sales and after-sales service to clients
  • Management of the sales team - selection of regional representatives, their development, motivation
  • Capital deals

Jan Novak

Position: Leadership, executive coach, ICF professional certified coach

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Leadership, executive coach
  • Development and implementation of information technologies
  • Support for the professional development of coaches
  • development of corporate culture and relationships
  • Dialogue, cooperation, responsibility
  • Resilience, motivation, stress
  • Work-life balance

EXPERIENCES

  • I work with managers and leaders on the targeted development of specific key skills in the areas of leadership, communication skills and managerial competencies.
  • I help experienced and novice managers build and develop personal style, develop natural authority, increase and successfully apply their influence for the benefit of their company or team.
  • I support leaders, motivated high-achievers and outstanding personalities in the development and application of influence and potential.
  • I will help you to name, grasp and influence the key places on your path to success, whether they are from the field of business, leadership, management skills, or from the world of conversations, emotions or personal relationships. I will facilitate your way below the surface of the key topics.
  • I will help you uncover blind spots, biases and personal tendencies that you can then influence to your advantage.

Vit Kristof

Position: Manager of sales and customer care teams

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Creating and implementing a business strategy
  • Creation and implementation of customer care
  • Expansion using indirect communication channels
  • Setting up processes

EXPERIENCES

  • Building indirect sales business teams, preparing strategies and being responsible for the fulfillment of sales KPIs.
  • Building customer care teams, creating a customer care strategy and being responsible for the fulfillment of customer care KPIs
  • Defining process and technological development
  • Integration of external partners into the structures of sales teams and customer care teams
  • Finding and setting up cooperation with external business partners
  • Workforce management
  • Defining and owning business requirements within CRM, campaign management and CTI
  • Collaboration on business and customer experience projects

Katarína Antalová

Position: Manager and CEO of Autonomous s.r.o

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Building ICT companies E2E in the so-called "green field"
  • Implementation of process frameworks for managing ICT services from a business perspective
  • Optimizing operational processes with a focus on efficiency and economy
  • Building an E2E digitization operation in the so-called "green field"
  • Coaching and mentoring of employees

EXPERIENCES

  • 23 years of experience
  • Long-term experience with crisis management, coaching and mentoring with a focus on efficiency and economy
  • Work abroad (Israel, Great Britain, USA)
  • Management of 25 direct reports

Oskar Lazansky

Position: Business development manager

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Improving the success of technology and knowledge transfer
  • Management of specific technology and knowledge transfer projects
  • Valuation of intangible assets
  • Innovation management

EXPERIENCES

  • Concept creation for technology transfer to industry, search for partners, market research, technology analysis, project management, marketing, licensing, pricing
  • Management of solution marketing and product marketing for the machine manufacturers segment and management of the department of industrial automation application specialists

Matej Baránek

Position: Businessman, executive director

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Innovation and involvement of new technologies
  • Finance and investment strategy
  • Marketing and communication strategies

EXPERIENCES

  • Crowfounding Platform Kickstarter - Sustainable Fashion
  • Setting the standards of digital communication, social media
  • Marketing campaigns
  • Informal networking of activities - from real estate investments, cryptocurrencies, to accounting services and development
  • Company management

Radka Murasová

Position: Director of INION, consultant and entrepreneur

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Strategic planning and business development
  • Business plan, business and marketing strategies
  • Documents for investors
  • International trade and expansion
  • Project and innovation management

EXPERIENCES

  • Forbes ideal place member
  • Head of the innovation infrastructure, founder of the INION Innovation Center
  • Development of business potential
  • Business, marketing advisory and consulting services
  • Project management

Radka Jansová

Position: Organizational consultant, mentor, interim manager

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Creation and change of organizational structure, managerial roles and leadership, corporate culture
  • Education, performance appraisal and feedback
  • Brand and employee engagement
  • Customer experience
  • Recruitment process
  • GDPR

EXPERIENCES

  • Solutions in People, Teams and Organization, Corporate Culture and Communication, Development and Learning, Relationship Management and Employees, Customers and Suppliers
  • European Women on Boards – repositioning, organization, creation and implementation of communication and action strategy, education, networking, PR etc.

Jarmila Brixová

Position: HR professional, We Invest in People consultant, Wellbeing coach, mentor, facilitator and founder of the Wellbeing company

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Setting up HR processes supporting wellbeing culture (implementation of wellbeing culture)
  • Implementation of the quality standard of management and care for people in the company (We Invest In People)
  • HR audit, HR process design, HR strategy
  • Changing the company culture
  • Leadership development

EXPERIENCES

  • The creation of the Wellbeing concept and its five pillars, the design of the online well-being diagnostics "My personal
    well-being", creating a well-being strategy, measuring and implementing a well-being culture in organizations
  • Mentor within the Equilibrium program – a development program for talented women
  • Strategic management and development of people in the company - design of new HR processes - recruitment, adaptation, new reward system, building HR branding, new education and development system "Zátiší Academy", internal communication - design of the internal magazine "Chuťovky", transformation of corporate culture

Jiří Mann

Position: Auditor, consultant

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Assessment of environmental impact on products
  • Processing of risk assessment documentation for new or upgraded products
  • Technical documentation for products
  • Legislatively required conformity assessment of products before they are put on the market or put into operation
  • Legislatively required declaration of conformity of products before they are put on the market or put into operation
  • Reverse engineering
  • Consulting in the field of implementing quality management systems according to ISO 9001 ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001
  • Technology audit and competency audit

EXPERIENCES

  • Rapid career progression from production foreman to chief engineer in an industrial company, focusing on operations management.
  • Working in leading positions in a coal company, where he was involved in investment activities, general repairs and technical development.
  • Chairman and director roles in a corporate environment, with an emphasis on strategic management and consulting services.
  • Active participation in professional and industry organizations, including serving on boards of directors and as an advisor.
  • Expertise in quality management systems, product conformity assessment and contribution to the development of professional education and certification

Jakub Beneš

Position: Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic / manager of the digital innovation HUB B4I

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Selection and implementation of ERP, APS and MES systems
  • Production management, people management, setting measurable goals
  • Competence model solutions, feedback and employee motivation

EXPERIENCES

  • Preparation and start-up of the innovation HUB in cooperation with academic partners, industry and local institutions
  • Management of the production plant BENEŠ and LÁT as Z02, in a long-term operating profit.
  • Introduction of ERP SW KARAT into BaL production processes. Bringing APS II into daily use for production control.
  • Cooperation on the creation of the MES system S-DATA in BaL for online and offline evaluation of production processes.
  • Production planning and optimization (new technologies, scrap reduction)

Pavel Körner

Position: Managing partner in AAA INSOLVENCE OK vos

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Financial distress
  • Weak cash flow
  • Receivables or liabilities past due
  • The threat of bankruptcy
  • Negative equity

EXPERIENCES

  • Extensive experience in the position of insolvency administrator
  • Risk manager, Project manager, Dept. Head
  • Project manager, team member or expert on demand in a number of projects in IT or Risk

Radek Nozar

Position: Company consultant, optimization of processes and economics in business

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Financial planning, controlling, analyses, reporting
  • Cash flow
  • Financial accounting and tax issues
  • Crisis management
  • Management motivation, owner/manager relationship

EXPERIENCES

Vladimir Keric

Position: Financial advisor/ Co-owner of Partners market Ústí nad Labem

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Personal finance
  • Employee benefits
  • Corporate finance

EXPERIENCES

  • Establishment and management of the Partners market branch
  • Financial advisor
  • Financial literacy trainer
  • Financial plans and investment portfolios
  • Dealing with clients

Jan Liška

Position: Founder of JLP/president of AFP CR

jan.liska@janliskapartneri.cz

733 773 983

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Financial management, pricing, financial planning
  • Strategic management
  • Subsidy and search for external resources
  • Marketing strategy
  • Restructuring of companies
  • Transfer and sale of the company

EXPERIENCES

My role is complex, but it is based on the philosophy of being better. Getting better every day. That is why I am constantly creating better systems, processes and methodologies for consulting in personal and corporate finance. Thanks to this, our clients receive a high level of advice. Therefore, I can advise small companies on how to be bigger and more efficient, because we have been through it too.

Zdenek Buchcar

Position: Financial director, chairman of the supervisory board, executive

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Financial advice and financial plan
  • Accounting and taxes
  • Background for financial analysis
  • Subsidy programs

EXPERIENCES

  • Establishment and management of Patriot KV, s.r.o
  • Financial planning, cash flow and accounting, control of accounting and tax regulations, legislative requirements
  • Client acquisition, business plans
  • Management of the sales team and their professional development
  • Financial analysis

Petr Pavlik

Position: Gender equality

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Gender audit
  • Gender Equality Plan
  • Prevention of discrimination and sexual harassment
  • Development of human resources in the field of diversity

EXPERIENCES

  • First introduction of measures against sexual harassment in the Czech Republic (handbook for university management and teachers, handbook for university students)
  • Gender audit in the Czech Republic – development of the first gender audit methodologies
  • Development of the e-learning program Equal opportunities for men and women in the Czech Republic for state and regional administration employees
  • Editor of Shadow reports in the field of equal treatment and equal opportunities for women and men in the Czech Republic

Jan Tyl

Position: Business and grant advisor

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • HR
  • External funding in the form of grants and subsidies
  • Starting a business - rights and obligations of an entrepreneur
  • Accounting and finance

EXPERIENCES

  • Management of personnel departments
  • Responsibility for legislation, health and safety, partially ISO
  • HR controlling, employee performance, remuneration
  • Negotiations with the trade union
  • Management of personnel costs

Tomas Čekal

Position: Consultant of management systems, corporate ecology, OZO OSH and OZO KOO on the construction site, OZO PO, internal auditor

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Consultancy of managed systemsand
  • Vision, mission, values, corporate culture
  • Business ecology, safety and health protection at work
  • Coordination of health and safety on the construction site and fire protection

EXPERIENCES

  • Advice in as part of implementation, updating and maintenance for small, medium and large enterprises in area Systemat management according to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001, ISO 37001, ISO 17025, ISO 13485, ISO
    17025 and othersch, conducting internal audits, support in within the certificatecertification body

    Consulting in framework implementation, updating and maintenance MrproductsE certification according to EN 1090, EN 15058,
    support in as part of the certification by the certification body

    Knowledge of legal requirements in areas of company management, product marketing, safety and
    safety at work, fire protection and corporate ecology, participation and support in within the controls and audits

Leoš Kubíček

Position: Co-owner and CEO of the Holistic management, s.r.o. group of companies

EXPERTISE FOR THE AREA

  • business strategy
  • brand portfolio management
  • virtual and augmented reality
  • professional coaching and strategic business consulting
  • holistic management

EXPERIENCES

  • more than 20 years of experience in business and business management
  • sales director of several multinational brands
  • founder and co-owner of companies offering holistic management and virtual reality services

Tereza Nováková

Position: Mentor of start-ups and companies

EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD

  • Setting up processes in the company
  • E-shops, e-commerce, IT companies
  • The field of company management
  • Organic growth of the company

EXPERIENCES

  • Project manager – responsibility for Zásilkovna locations in Moravia, hiring of all positions, fleet management, customer service, finance, administration
  • Financial planning, cash flow and accounting, control of accounting and tax regulations, legislative requirements
  • Matching IT specialists with employers, supplying IT specialists to companies
  • E-shops and marketing
  • Management of the IT and PM implementation department, communication with other departments

Our consultants

Our colleagues will discuss your business ideas or problems with you. For contacting please use the contact form below under reference.

Petr Jansa

key account manager-businessjansa@icuk.czLinkedIn

Ing. Jiří Pelc

key account manager - businessespelc@icuk.czLinkedIn

Mgr. Radka Wenclová

social business, business support+420 724 070 680radka.wenclova@mpsv.cz

Reference

Worksheet.ws

""ICUK helped us clarify key questions in the field of business and marketing. We gained support and knowledge that helped us move forward faster. Participation in the program was a significant support for our startup at a critical stage of development.""

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IQSTAT

“The incubator helped us mainly through personal consultations. We had the opportunity to discuss the specific challenges we face in the company with experts from various fields. At the same time, the incubator is a great opportunity to meet other founders and share experiences. I always left the workshops and joint meetings with new energy and motivation to move my business forward. Last but not least, the incubator is run by willing and helpful people who always helped us with a smile.”

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