Newport Consulting Group maintains relationships and partnerships with some of the largest software companies, global IT service providers, and professional service companies.  While our market activities are focused in North America, our strategy and program design and oversight work often takes us to lateral markets to address organization and program needs.

SAP America / SAP AG / SAP Research

Our firm is recognized as a global influence partner in the areas of program design and oversight and program planning activities, with a focus on core ERP process including Order to Cash (O2C), Procurement and Supply Chain Management.  We support the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) initiative from SAP Research and have been members of the Office of CFO Marketing since 2010.  Our principals work with the Americas SAP User Group and are recognized ASUG influencers in the areas of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) and Sustainability solutions offered by SAP.  As part of our market growth and entry service, we also provide market communications support to several solution marketing involving social media, publications, and public speaking platforms including SAP Insider and with members of the SAP PartnerEdge community.

Microsoft Partner Network

Newport Consulting Group is registered as a member of the Microsoft Partner Network, providing services in the area of business consulting and strategy.  As part of our market growth and entry service, we work with high growth software and service companies to take advantage of developing and adapting their product portfolio to include components of the Microsoft platform.  For those organizations who are pre-existing SAP partners (or who may be considering an SAP partnership), we can facilitate entry into the Microsoft UNITE program, a joint solution management and solution marketing partner program for organizations building solutions to serve both the Microsoft and SAP product families.

Constant Contact Partner

Newport Consulting Group is a Business Partner with Constant Contact, providing integrated email marketing and strategic market communications services.  Constant Contact's email marketing, social media markting, event marketing, and online survey tools help high-growth companies, not for profit organizations, and associations grow their businesses by building stronger customer relationships.
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Newport Consulting works with its partners to offer a number of assessment and business improvement frameworks which allow companies with capable staff to initiate and manage their own programs with coaching and guidance from our staff.  The terms of these products and frameworks are governed by our partners.

Social Business Strategies for Growth (On-demand Webinar Training)

Join Newport Consulting principal Liz Garnand and managing principal William Newman for a series of on-demand Social Business Webinars "Maximizing your Voice in the Social Media Space" sponsored by the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) Academy. All three webinars are available on-demand at the IMC Academy marketplace, course number AL212. Visit our services page to learn more about how we help organizations position their value in the market.

Social Fingerprint(TM) (Self-Assessment, Coaching and On-demand Training)

Our firm is an official Authorized Representative for Social Accountability International (SAI), a non-profit, multi-stakeholder organization that is a leader in the field of supply chain management and CSR training. As an Authorized Representative, we work closely with SAI to develop and deliver training, technical assistance and other services. Our focus includes the promotion of SAI’s flagship SA8000^® standard, in addition to SAI’s latest program - Social Fingerprint^® - established to drive business improvement by helping companies to implement the management systems concept in a credible, pragmatic and cost-effective way. For more information on SAI’s Social Fingerprint® program, please visit www.socialfingerprint.org using reference code Newport11R.

Change Accelerator Toolkit for Organization Change Management and Communications

Web-based toolkit with 50+ downloadable tools and templates, a change process, best practices, and tips to help you facilitate change effectively within your organization. Learn more about Change Accelerator here.