Octagona My Access: the new Octagona service.

With a view to a process of expansion and expansion of its consulting and business activities and greater support for companies wishing to start an internationalization project, Octagona has designed a new service: My Access. It is an innovative system to grow Italian companies that want to access new markets and consolidate their business abroad, enabling them to compete in international markets with a presence on the ground.

One of the main problems companies face in accessing the foreign market is the inability to hire staff locally and to rent offices or premises if they lack a recognized legal structure in the destination country. Companies that do not have a liaison office, branch office or registered company thus suffer severe operational limitations. Entering a new country presents problems that are already complex in themselves, and the lack of an operating office there constrains the companies' ability to act.

For this reason, Octagona has designed a package of services that can overcome the problem, aimed at obtaining concrete results in foreign markets. MyAccess is configured as an “all inclusive” service package that guarantees the company access, development and consolidation in a foreign market through its own on-site resource, while keeping development costs under control: it is an outsourcing service at Octagona's local headquarters consisting of selecting and hiring the human resources needed by the company, providing adequate and equipped office space (pc, telephone, internet, stationery, meeting room, etc.).

My Access is divided into two different phases and types of services: OnSite and MyOffice.

OnSite is constituted as is a real structured service aimed at fostering internationalization, through an operational platform to support the company's start-up in the foreign market. The client company, once guidelines and objectives have been defined, completely delegates to Octagona the hiring and management of the payroll of a resource to whom, at his own expense, he entrusts the task of managing the area on behalf of the client company.

It involves the hiring of a resource of medium-high managerial level (depending on the needs of the client), with sufficient experience in the specific field, who will become the company's reference element in terms of operational management in the market, will operate in the assigned local context and will report not only to the company contact person but also to the Octagona operations manager. This placement in the workforce is made on the basis of precise indications from of the company.

Octagona will be responsible for hiring the resource for a minimum period of 12 months, handling all issues related to contracting, contributions and insurance. The resource's out-of-pocket expenses will be advanced by Octagona and billed later to the client.

MyOffice represents the most modern answer to the needs of business development on foreign markets compatible with cost control in the start-up phase. It is embodied in a series of tools and directional spaces made available on an ongoing basis: through this service, the company will be able to take advantage of a work area consonant with its collaborator, maintaining control over his or her work and channeling meetings and materials in the most correct and appropriate manner.

The service includes the provision of the following activities: reception and waiting area, workstation, stationery, receipt and management of documents, selection of major local newspapers and magazines, beverage service, network laser printer, local area network connection, Internet connection, telephone line and fax line. In addition, the office manager, together with the assigned Senior Partner, will monitor the operation of resources within the office.

The My Access service is therefore able to provide the company with a direct presence in the territory with limited investment, making it the ideal solution for SMEs facing new markets.

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