Global Progress Specialists is founded on the following principles:

Knowledge is Power

Businesses cannot grow without knowledge:

• Knowledge of proper management principles and tools – Intuition, passion and luck will only carry a business so far.  Without a solid foundation in strategy, leadership, and other business theories, management capacity will cripple a company’s growth prospects long before the market for its products is saturated.


• Knowledge of the customer – All of the latest tools and ideas will fail you if you do not understand your customer and the world in which they live and how they see it.
  


• Knowledge of others – Neither one person nor even one company can succeed without the help of others.  Both formal partners – supply chain, marketing, etc. – and informal partners – advisors, peers for sharing ideas, etc. – are required for any company to succeed.
  

Good Business is Good Business No Matter Where You Are or What You Sell

Market forces vary across the world, across a country, and even across cities, as well as across industries. However, the same principles that make a marketing firm strong in London make a pharmaceutical manufacturer strong in Caracas, a clothing manufacturer strong in Shanghai, a food producer strong in Freetown, a financial services company strong in New York, and any other business strong wherever it resides. While the details will vary from country to country, and company to company, a company’s senior management needs to understand their competitive landscape, their optimum financial structure, their markets’ desires and growth prospects, and any number of other variables if they want to grow their company into a sustainable and vibrant business.

The Private Sector is THE Answer

A globally competitive and diverse private sector is the key to solving many of the problems currently restraining developing countries.  GPS has seen enough ingenuity, drive, and intelligence in a myriad of developing countries to know that such a private sector would develop in spite of the other problems – corruption, poor infrastructure, HIV / AIDS, etc. – if the business growth services taken for granted by comparable companies in countries with more developed private sectors were readily available in developing countries.

Developing Countries are THE Answer

With the sovereign debt issues of most major developed countries, as well as the myriad of other problems currently plaguing their economies, companies looking to continue growing only have two options: Steal market share from their competitors or expand into developing countries further. The former is always more difficult than cultivating new customers. Therefore, companies willing to make a bold move into developing countries will have a significant advantage over their more timid competitors for years to come.