Transform your business with UC Riverside’s advanced technologies consulting program
Dear Inland Empire business owners and leaders,
The University of California, Riverside (UCR), and its Office of Technology Partnerships (OTP) are offering in 2023 a new program of advanced technical assistance to Inland Empire small businesses to help your growth and competitiveness.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every regional business, and these specialized consulting services on transformational topics will help you recover and compete in a business environment facing rapid technological change. UCR’s program is called TACIES (Technical Assistance to COVID impacted Inland Empire Small Business) and will provide free business consulting in four key areas:
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Areas of Technical Assistance
Main programs
- Integration of Cybersecurity and data privacy in business operations (including privacy and data security, scams, website, and payment cards, etc.)
- How Robotics and Automation can be used to improve productivity (collaborative assistance in logistics, fabrication, labs, agriculture, etc.)
- How Data Analytics can be used for prediction, diagnostics, and customer acquisition
- Doing business in a highly connected environment with 5G and Internet (mobile business, sensor technology, real-time data, etc.)
Business leaders applying to our program will receive 6-8 hours of professional consulting from a leading consulting service supplier specific for each technical topic, paid by UCR through funds from the EDA.
Thanks to the professional consulting organizations who are supporting the TACIES program:
| Cybersecurity: SecLex LLC | www.seclexisc.com |
| Robotics and Automation: CMTC | www.cmtc.com |
| Data Analytics: Data-Sleek, Inc. | www.data-sleek.com |
| 5G and Internet of Things: LinkedObjects | www.linkedobjects.com |
Financial Fitness BootCamp
Are you a business owner and you know you need to strengthen your financial technical skills? TACIES is partnering with the Cal State San Bernardino Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship (IECE) to offer technical assistance and access to UC Riverside resources to help you implement what you’ve learned.
Learn more by visiting. https://www.iece.csusb.edu/content/finfit
Small Business Resource Engine
Looking for experienced partners to solve daily business challenges? We have partnered with the Microenterprise Collaborative to make their searchable web tool easily available to visitors on the TACIES portal. We are also working together to double the number of Inland Empire organizations whose technical and other business services are searchable in the engine – more than 90 organizations are providing menus of their offerings and contact information.
Try the Business Assistance tool at: www.microbizinsocal.org/small-business-assistance-tool
CEO/Owner Tech Roundtables
And we will invite you to join us for our upcoming “CEO/Owner Tech Roundtables” being held monthly as Zoom webinars where successful CEOs will discuss topics around technology competitiveness and doing business in the Inland Empire.
Interested in joining? Write to us at TACIES@ucr.edu
TACIES Press Release
Thanks for visiting the TACIES portal – you can access the full range of TACIES offerings by clicking to register at the GET STARTED link at the top of the page or HERE.
Description of Services
While there are many organizations offering complementary support to the Inland Empire’s small business owners, UC Riverside’s Office of Technology Partnerships uniquely offers hands-on advice about how technology can prepare you for business growth.
The execution of this grant will be an integrated part of the region's overall effort to help revitalize small businesses affected by the pandemic and fuel the engine of regional quality job growth.
A special request:
To inform our UCR team about the state of technology adoption in the region and to measure the impact of the TACIES program, OTP has partnered with a Professor at UCR’s School of Public Policy. They have developed the “UCR Tech Survey,” which takes 5-7 minutes to complete and is available in English and Spanish. If you are interested in contributing to this survey, please “tick the box” in the Registration link at the top of this page or HERE. A separate email will be sent to you with the survey -it will have "UCR Tech Survey" in the subject line. We’d like to have as much participation as possible to guide the development of further technical assistance programs for the region.
Contact us
With TACIES, we look forward to offering a wide variety of technical assistance programs and access to UC Riverside resources to IE small businesses. Contact: tacies@ucr.edu
For general inquiries about UC Riverside’s entrepreneurial EPIC programming, incubators and accelerators, technology commercialization, and partnering with UCR faculty, contact the UCR Office of Technology Partnerships.