McNair Business Development Inc.

Formed in 1996, McNair Business Development Inc. is a business first management firm focused on creating value by improving the business performance of its clients and working on new business ventures. With 14 consultants on staff, McNair is the largest management and business consulting firm in Saskatchewan and is well connected to the provincial economy. McNair deliverables include developing and implementing economic development strategies and business concepts, business and market feasibility studies and business strategies and business plans, and outsourcing management and business services. For unique joint venture opportunities clients are referred to a sister company, McNair Ventures Management Inc.

McNair's vision is to contribute to the growth of Western Canada through our business activities as a proponent of innovation, new enterprise and business performance. Our accomplishments will drive job creation, wealth and innovation.

As a business first management firm, McNair's focus is on creating value and growing the economy by improving the business performance of our clients and developing joint ventures. Our approach is based on building solid relationships and applying our knowledge, experience and proven processes to a business need or opportunity. We focus on outcomes and prefer to deliver results quickly.

McNair's primary service area is Western Canada. The firm's head office is located in Regina and we maintain an office presence in Winnipeg and Calgary to better serve clients across the region. McNair's primary market interests and expertise are in the areas of economic development and enterprise, public-private partnerships (P3) and new business ventures.

McNair provides business development consulting services to strategic clients that help them align the necessary resources and activities to successfully realize business outcomes. Clients come to us because they have a business need or business opportunity that can be best met by engaging McNair. Our desire to take responsibility for the solution differentiates us from other consulting firms. Our clients realize that they are acquiring the firm's collective skills, experiences, processes, methods and mindshare. McNair's approach to consulting lowers risks, saves time, improves quality and creates value.

Beyond consulting, McNair has operational experience and capacity to manage and operate business processes on behalf of a client, allowing the client to focus on other areas. We apply our expertise to the need and take responsibility for the delivery. We have outsourced services to set up new business ventures, to establish and manage better business processes, to support a business expansion, and to effect an organizational turnaround.

Using McNair for outsourcing lowers risks, saves time, improves quality and creates value. Outsourcing from McNair can range from general management agreements for the start up of new ventures to providing business and product development services, to managing service delivery. We have experience establishing new business processes in collaboration with clients and then in some cases transitioning the processes over to the client for long term sustainable operation.

McNair is able to take business opportunities to the next level through arranging joint ventures on behalf of clients or in some cases by becoming a partner through McNair Ventures Management Inc. When McNair Ventures becomes involved in a venture we act as an owner, not as an investor. We focus on solid business plans and the execution of operational plans that will create value over the long term.

Our firm works in collaboration with our clients to produce outcomes. We have found the following set of guiding principles to be an effective foundation for our business relationships:

Together, we develop a win-win relationship that enables both parties to achieve their respective business goals and outcomes.

The focus of our work together is on producing identified outcomes and results. The activities of a project are important, but only to achieve the desired project outcomes.

We commit to work together under value-based agreements that include shared risk and shared reward for both parties.

We agree that for any agreement to be effective, that both parties need to be successful and the definition of success needs to be defined up front.

We believe that each party will receive the greatest value from projects that are strategic to both parties.

McNair will transfer knowledge and systems to our clients to support their self-sufficiency and their need to build capacity.

A strategic relationship requires executive sponsorship.

We have a long list of satisfied clients. Client references are available upon request. Please contact Deverell Pelletier at (306) 789-0019 to request reference contacts.