Tandem Partners

Welcome to our little corner of the world. We’re glad you found us. We’d like to introduce ourselves in hopes that we may be able to help you do what you’ve never done before. You see, we are a small niche consulting firm with a big vision. That vision isn’t to grow into a large niche consulting firm. No, small works really well for us. Rather, we want to help organizations like yours significantly impact the world by maximizing your potential.

Let’s begin by telling you who we aren’t. We aren’t a technology firm but we can help you use technology in really smart ways. We aren’t a media company but we can help you develop strategies for using media to help you accomplish your goals. We aren’t a marketing firm but we can help you develop a comprehensive plan for getting your message out and engaging your constituents in life-changing ways. Instead, we are technology strategists who specialize in helping faith-based organizations make use of the best business and social engagement tools to enable you to succeed at your mission.

Most organizations don’t have a strategist on staff who really understands how to leverage the most powerful tools and techniques to accomplish your goals. So, most rely on outside vendors to meet such needs. This means, for example, partnering with a technology vendor to migrate you onto their Web platform. What they know most is their particular platform and how it can help you. As such, they view your needs through the lens of their particular toolset instead of focusing on the bigger picture of how to bring together all the right tools and systems into a comprehensive set of strategies to help you maximize your potential.

The ideal approach is for a strategist to take the time to learn your comprehensive set of needs and then work in tandem with you to develop the best strategies and tactics to meet them. This is someone who is able to see the big picture and put all the necessary pieces together to help you accomplish your mission. What we are talking about here is an advocate who fills in high-value skills for short periods of time to help you get to the next level of effectiveness by developing innovative strategies, proven business tactics and key partnerships. This is what we do.

We take the time to learn the heartbeat of your organization and what it is you want to accomplish. We help you understand the opportunities afforded by today’s most powerful information and social technologies to achieve your objectives. We help translate the implications of complex issues into business decisions you can easily understand. Then, we work in tandem with you to develop innovative, yet practical strategies and tactics capable of getting you there. We help you think outside of the box to surpass your previous levels of effectiveness and impact.

If needed, we can help you find the right partnerships to implement those strategies and tactics. We can also act as a liaison with those partners to insure your best interests are maintained at all times. Since we’ve been consulting for faith-based nonprofits for decades, we understand the options available in the marketplace and can objectively help you find the right ones to meet your needs. As such, our goal from the very beginning of our engagements is to bring to you the right strategies, specialists and implementers to get you to your desired destination.

Your organization’s core competency is that you understand how to bring personal transformation to the lives you touch in unique ways. Your success is connected to your ability to stay focused on what you do best. As such, most nonprofit organizations don't possess the internal expertise needed to exploit the capabilities of technology and media to help them fulfill their purpose. Yet, engaging and impacting lives today is all about leveraging these powerful communication, marketing and social engagement platforms.

That’s why you need a strategic partner that is capable of bringing these high-value skills to your organization. There are many companies in this marketplace that can help you put various pieces and parts together to ooh and awe your constituents. You can have a Website featuring all the latest bells and whistles. Such things are helpful when it comes to comparing yourself to other sites and in generating short-term buzz among your constituency. But frankly, such short-sighted solutions do very little in helping you succeed at your strategic mission or making a lasting difference in the lives you touch.

Technology and media are tools capable of helping you do two things. First, they help you manage your resources and run your organization more efficiently (this is the role of information technology). By using these technologies well, you can accomplish more with fewer resources. Second, they help you transform lives and impact culture more effectively (this is the role of social technology and media). They allow you to share your message and engage people in ways that connect your core competencies to their points of needs. The end result is life impact on your constituency and success of your organization’s strategic mission.

Yet, this level of impact requires bringing together dozens of dynamics and systems into a cohesive strategy that is closely and directly connected with your organization’s mission. This used to require custom developed technologies and applications, but this is no longer the case. The industry has matured significantly in recent years. Today, it’s all about integrating the right combination of existing solutions to fit your unique goals and needs.

Very few consulting firms are capable of bringing all these elements together with the right balance to meet your unique needs. We are one of the few. We possess the depth and breadth of understanding to help you maximize your potential to transform the lives you touch via information and social technologies and media.

If, based on these criteria, you believe we potentially are a good fit to help your organization, please apply for a free initial telephone consultation.