Denessen & Partners

Successful implementation of sound strategy and planning is achieved by careful and thorough project management that helps to ensure the stated objective. Our proven approach to project management is based on teamwork with strong leadership to identify tasks and how goals will be achieved, quantify the resources needed, and determine budgets and timelines for completion. It also includes carrying out regular monitoring to make certain that there is accurate and objective information on performance relative to the strategy and plan, as well as the mechanisms to implement recovery actions where necessary. Projects follow major phases, including feasibility, definition, implementation, evaluation and support, all taking into account that no two projects are the same and each is given unique attention.

Our strength also relies on working as a tripartite negotiating team comprising ourselves and selected experts in cultural, creative media and financial organizations. This matches our own tripartite way of working in advice, fund raising and project management out of offices in Amsterdam, Berlin and Copenhagen. We and our partners are committed to the same goal of a successful outcome for our clients evidenced by a strong track record over the past years. Each project is different and we therefore provide an individual and tailor-made approach within the tripartite group. Our preferential partner  ECORYS in Rotterdam and in Brussels are most valuable in bringing about a successful conclusion to a project.

The key components to efficient and effective project management are clear and detailed strategy and planning. We offer this service either on a ‘one-stop-shop’ turnkey basis or as a selection of specific phases in the project process according to time and budget requirements. A part of the service is the all important finalization of a project where we offer advice on  accounting administration to take care of the usually high volume of paperwork, especially required by the EU and, ultimately, for insurance purposes.

We bring the right people together who have precisely the right experience for handling a project or study assignment. Lack of appropriate experience can lead to a project being assigned to the wrong consultant with possible disastrous consequences. Most importantly, members of the group agree to be part of a consortia network whose key interest is the success of the AV, creative and cultural sector, primarily in EU member countries. Through this we set up projects that need to be efficiently and effectively managed, an area where we also have vast experience. Coordination of such consortia and the right know-how is key to a mutually satisfactory conclusion, whether involving EU policy and regulations, consulting film, media and/or cultural experts across borders or talking with national, regional and local government.

Funds are crucial to the financing  of projects for European audiovisual and cultural industries. Without private, corporate and government support a cultural and creative Europe would lag behind other countries in Asia and the Americas. Fund raising is a complex and lengthy process and not always guaranteed to succeed. This is where we offer expert advice, administration and coordination of fund raising actions and setting up consortia in order to find the best possible solutions. Denessen & Partners maintains a comprehensive network of funding organizations in a number of European countries that are open to discussion about financial support. We have direct experience with many of these organizations through positive business transactions.