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  • Market
    Sizing
  • Competitive
    Intelligence
  • Industry
    Analysis

Know the market size potential and direction of your target markets

  • Top-down market sizing or bottom-up
  • Demand-side or supply-side
  • Survey-based or desk research

Your competitors (unicorns included), their strategies, actions & outcomes

  • Expansion & investment plans
  • M&A, alliances & technology play
  • Marketing strategy & earnings update

Get to the depths of your sector, ecosystem, balance of power & market trends

  • Value chain and player ecosystem
  • Industry drivers and challenges
  • Framework-based insights
  • Customer
    Insights
  • Mega
    Trends
  • Innovative
    scouting

Use customer intelligence to service existing customers & win new business

  • Survey their attitudes, behaviours & preferences
  • Know their business, issues, strategy & performance
  • Understand their purchase journey

Long-term, evolutionary market trends fundamentally altering the landscape

  • Change in life and business conduct
  • Know their business impacts
  • Develop relevant strategies & solutions

Know the innovating – the idea, its market and the impact

  • Players – incumbents, outliers and unicorns
  • Funding, investors & acquisitions
  • Ecosystem
    Analysis
  • Technology
    Research
  • Market
    Segmentation

Understand the dynamics of networked yet often competing firms

  • Ecosystems that entrench businesses in the market
  • Practices that create value and grow the ecosystem
  • Real-world case studies

Garner insights on the tech landscape, emerging disruptions & their impact

  • Insights on company incubating the technology
  • Identify disruptions and opportunities
  • Build your partner and acquisition landscape

Refine your strategy. Know market segments to bring relevance & maximize opportunity

  • Identify segments with common characteristics & find niches
  • Better target your services & products to the segment needs
  • Partner
    Selection
  • M&A
    Support
  • Market
    Trends

Qualify promising partners in markets of interest and establish initial contact

  • Follow a structured approach to identify, evaluate & shortlist partners
  • Meet, assess and negotiate

Jump start your merger and acquisition strategy to overcome barriers

  • Identifying target companies
  • Company & sector research
  • Pitch books

Recognize the changes in your target market and the direction thereof

  • Consumer preferences and how market is responding in turn
  • Whether technology is changing the way market functions
  • New solutions targeting unmet need or creating still new ones
  • Business
    Benchmarking
  • Route-To-
    Market-Analysis
  • Opportunity
    Assessment

Compare your business against peers and best-in-class companies

  • Benchmark against key financial metrics
  • Map web user experience to know the process and pain-points

Optimize your market reach by using channel insights & best practices

  • Understand the channels used for your solution and market
  • Know how your competitors are positioning products in the market
  • Evaluate strength of the channels and the players who control it

From market size to competitiveness, bring it together for a 360° analysis

  • Market requirements, barriers and sector attractiveness
  • Driver, unmet needs, trends and challenges
  • Options for Go-To-Market
  • Country
    Analysis
  • Market
    Prioritization
  • Best
    Practices

Gain perspective on your world – aerial to granular

  • Grasp economic, financial and political developments
  • Opportunities & risks to manage
  • Make informed decisions on investments, regional expansion, & market entry

Decide the opportunities to pursue in context of market insights & firm capabilities

  • Framework based approach to prioritize your market options
  • Know the revenue potential

Benefit from what best-in-class firms have solved for while minimizing risk

  • Learn from what others have done
  • Reduce cycle time
  • Build functional effectiveness
  • Media Monitoring Media Monitoring
  • Go-To-Market Analysis Go-To-Market Analysis

Build responsiveness by staying on top of events that matter

  • From market to competitive intelligence, use information that is current
  • Know issues that matter to your markets and customers
  • Be aware of competitive actions

Develop a cohesive GTM plan across markets, customers, channels & more

  • Know segments with most potential
  • Develop a value proposition that bests the competition
  • Grow your customer base in value and volume
  • Macroeconomic Analysis Macroeconomic Analysis
  • White Space Analysis White Space Analysis

Make sense of your region’s performance & direction

  • Know risks and hidden opportunities
  • Decide to invest or exit

Market gaps. Toehold in a crowded field. New business model

  • Niches to exploit
  • Changes to purchase journey
  • New channels to tap
  • Market Sizing

    Know the revenue potential and direction of your target markets

    • Top-down or bottom-up
    • Demand-side or supply-side
    • Survey-based or desk research
  • Competitive Intelligence

    Your competitors (unicorns included), their strategies, actions & outcomes

    • Expansion & investment plans
    • M&A, alliances & technology play
    • Marketing strategy & earnings update
  • Industry Analysis

    Get to the depths of your sector, ecosystem, balance of power & trends

    • Value chain and player ecosystem
    • Drivers and challenges
    • Framework-based insights
  • Customer Insights

    Use customer intelligence to service existing customers & win new business

    • Survey their attitudes, behaviours & preferences
    • Know how your competitors are targeting them
    • Understand their purchase journey
  • Mega Trends

    Long-term, evolutionary developments fundamentally altering the landscape

    • Change in life and business conduct
    • Know their business impacts
    • Develop relevant strategies & solutions
  • Innovation Scouting

    Know the innovating – the idea, its market and the impact

    • Players – incumbents, outliers and unicorns
    • Funding, investors & acquisitions
  • Ecosystem Analysis

    Understand the dynamics of networked yet often competing firms

    • Ecosystems that entrench businesses in the market
    • Practices that create value and grow the ecosystem
    • Real-world case studies
  • Technology Research

    Garner insights on the tech landscape, emerging disruptions & their impact

    • Insights on company incubating the technology
    • Identify disruptions and opportunities
    • Build your partner and acquisition landscape
  • Market Segmentation

    Refine your strategy. Know sub-groups to bring relevance & maximize opportunity

    • Identify segments with common characteristics & find niches
    • Better target your services & products to the segment needs
  • Partner Selection

    Qualify promising partners in markets of interest and establish initial contact

    • Follow a structured approach to identify, evaluate & shortlist partners
    • Meet, assess and negotiate
  • M&A Support

    Jump start your merger and acquisition strategy to overcome barriers

    • Identifying target companies
    • Company & sector research
    • Pitch books
  • Market Trends

    Recognize the changes in your target market and the direction thereof

    • Consumer preferences and how market is responding in turn
    • Whether technology is changing the way market functions
    • New solutions targeting unmet need or creating still new ones
  • Benchmarking

    Compare your business against peers and best-in-class companies

    • Benchmark against key financial metrics
    • Map web user experience to know the process and pain-points
  • Route-To-Market Analysis

    Optimize your market reach by using channel insights & best practices

    • Understand the channels used for your solution and market
    • Know how your competitors are positioning products in the market
    • Evaluate strength of the channels and the players who control it
  • Opportunity Assessment

    From market size to competitiveness, bring it together for a 360° analysis

    • Market requirements, barriers and sector attractiveness
    • Driver, unmet needs, trends and challenges
    • Options for Go-To-Market
  • Country Analysis

    Gain perspective on your world – aerial to granular

    • Grasp economic, financial and political developments
    • Opportunities & risks to manage
    • Make informed decisions on investments, regional expansion, & market entry
  • Market Prioritization

    Decide the opportunities to pursue in context of market insights & firm capabilities

    • Framework based approach to prioritize your market options
    • Know the revenue potential
  • Best Practices

    Benefit from what best-in-class firms have solved for while minimizing risk

    • Learn from what others have done
    • Reduce cycle time
    • Build functional effectiveness
  • Media Monitoring

    Build responsiveness by staying on top of events that matter

    • From market to competitive intelligence, use information that is current
    • Know issues that matter to your markets and customers
    • Be aware of competitive actions
  • Go-To-Market Analysis

    Develop a cohesive GTM plan across markets, customers, channels & more

    • Know segments with most potential
    • Develop a value proposition that bests the competition
    • Grow your customer base in value and volume
  • Macroeconomic Analysis

    Make sense of your region’s performance & direction

    • Know risks and hidden opportunities
    • Decide to invest or exit
  • White Space Analysis

    Market gaps. Toehold in a crowded field. New business model

    • Niches to exploit
    • Changes to purchase journey
    • New channels to tap

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Case Studies


Realign Country Investment Strategy

Develop go-to-market plan

Country cultural assessment

Wealth management opportunity

Customer Insights

Accessing route to market

Rethinking growth strategy

Industry analysis

Mega trend analysis to guide long term strategy

Innovations in remote health monitoring

M&A target identification

New product development practices

Country Insights

Business Growth

Partner Identification

Evaluate opportunity for market entry

Realign Country Investment Strategy

Client


Sector: Semiconductor

Type: Multi-Country

Category: Fortune 500

Area: Market Opportunity

Region: Asia

Situation


The company sought to independently reassess and realign its country
investment strategy for chip cards amid market shifts and political uncertainty.

Solution


Conducted multi-vertical assessment using primary market research,
desk research, and modeling to prioritize opportunities and
recommend strategic direction.

Develop go-to-market plan

Client


Sector: Information Tech

Type: Global

Category: Fortune 500

Area: Go-To-Market

Region: Asia

Situation


To rollout a hi-def video conferencing solution across four countries,
the client needed insights on demand, pricing, competition, and partnerships.

Solution


Conducted in-country primary market research supported by desk research
and modeling to size demand, validate pricing, prioritize features,
and identify strategic partners.

Country cultural assessment for product positioning

Client


Sector

Social – Photo

Type

US-based

Category

Start-up

Area

Culture Assessment

Region

EU, Asia

Situation


While well accepted in its home market, a photo-sharing startup
struggled to gain traction in key European and Asian countries.
The company sought to understand cultural nuances influencing
user behavior.

Solution


Cultural dimensions underpinning online consumer behavior were
analyzed across countries. Desk research identified attributes
driving adoption and informed product positioning and feature
prioritization for international markets.

Wealth management – country opportunity assessment

Client


Sector

Banking

Type

Global

Category

Fortune 500

Area

Market Assessment

Region

EU

Situation


The headquarters team sought to better equip its country-level
wealth management business with insights on market size, customer
segments, structure, and competitor activity in a key European
market.

Solution


A desk-research–led assessment identified wealth holders by value
and volume, segmented assets, mapped regulatory structures, city
hotspots, and competitive landscapes to support informed strategic
decision-making.

Customer Insights

Client


Sector

Building Technology

Type

Multi-Country

Category

Fortune 500

Area

Customer Insights

Region

North America

Situation


In the absence of a structured insight program, the company lacked
continuous intelligence on customer businesses and was slow to act,
resulting in missed growth opportunities.

Solution


The customer universe was segmented and prioritized for a structured
engagement model. Key accounts were deeply profiled, supported by
regular insight updates and a topical newsletter to institutionalize
customer intelligence.

Accessing route to market

Client


Sector

Confectionery

Type

Multi-Country

Category

Fortune 500

Area

Route to Market

Region

Asia

Situation


A European confectionery company aimed to expand its footprint in
two emerging Asian markets through traditional trade channels but
lacked clarity on optimal distribution structures and economics.

Solution


Desk research and primary market research were combined to assess
market structure, pricing, growth potential, and competitor
strategies. Strategic route-to-market options and partnership
models were recommended.

Rethinking growth strategy

Client


Sector

Stationery

Type

Multi-Country

Category

Fortune 500

Area

Market Assessment

Region

Latin America

Situation


The business had operated in a Latin American country for decades
but struggled to achieve desired market penetration and growth,
prompting a reassessment of its long-term strategy.

Solution


An in-depth market assessment evaluated current size and projected
growth over five years, covering channel structures, pricing,
margins, distribution models, import duties, and competitive
positioning to define viable growth pathways.

Industry analysis to support portfolio company

Client


Sector

Restaurant Management

Type

Chain

Category

Private Equity Portfolio

Area

Industry Analysis

Region

North America

Situation


A mid-market private equity firm required ongoing insights to help
its portfolio company stay ahead of rapid developments in the fast
casual restaurant segment.

Solution


Desk research mapped market growth rates, consumer behavior shifts,
pricing dynamics, competitive performance, and emerging trends,
enabling data-backed strategic decisions for sustained growth.

Mega trend analysis to guide long term strategy

Client


Sector

Automotive Consulting

Type

Global

Category

Private

Area

Mega Trends

Region

APAC

Situation


To align its business strategy to solutions and regions presenting
substantial opportunities, an automotive OEM engaged consultants
for mega trend research to support long-term strategy planning.

Solution


Desk research identified, grouped, and prioritized mega trends
impacting the business. Trends were linked to impact areas and
strategic options to drive leadership discussions and decisions.

Innovations in remote health monitoring

Client


Sector

Healthcare InfoTech

 

Type

Consulting

 

Category

Private

 

Area

Innovation scouting

 

Region

Global

Situation


EU consulting firm working on health care product innovation for its end client sought to map the innovation landscape in remote monitoring solutions

Solution


Focused on wearable patches, it sought to know the conditions being tracked, form actors, device integration, price point, distribution model, & investment flow. Identified direction of categories for long term pportunity

M&A target identification

Client


Sector

IT-Property Mgmnt

 

Type

Mid-market

 

Category

Private

 

Area

M&A

 

Region

EU

Situation


A mid-market property management software company seeking insights and potential acquisition targets so as to establish its presence in a EU country

Solution


Desk research took a phased approach covering a, assessment of property management market for volume, value and growth potential, landscape of managers & use of technology. Followed by a criteria-based target list & company profiles

New product development practices

Client


Sector

Consumer Products

 

Type

Mid-market

 

Category

Private

 

Area

Best practices

 

Region

US

Situation


A mid-market consumer products business operating in dynamic markets characterized by rapidly changing consumer preferences & high rate of tech obsolescence sought to understand NPD best practices

Solution


Desk research identified sectors & products to be analyzed. And was supported by expert interviews. This culminated into a document comprising practices of best-in-class companies, methods adopted and a framework for NPD

Country Insights

Client


Sector

Tech

 

Type

Multi-country

 

Category

Consulting

 

Area

Country Intelligence

 

Region

South America

Situation


To enable its country teams and support business development efforts, the consulting firm needed ‘state of the country’ reports

Solution


Country reports provided essential insights across macroeconomic performance, political development, key government policies, education, state of infrastructure and technology readiness

Business Growth

Client


Sector

Packaging

 

Type

Single Country

 

Category

Corporate

 

Area

Growth Options

 

Region

North America

Situation


To present to its board, a printing major sought to explore growth options for its recently acquired packaging business that needed to build scale

Solution


With portfolio across dairy & confectionary, desk research identified target corporate accounts & product lines; modeled size of packaging spend; position of competitors & growth path analysis of top players to recommend strategic options

Partner Identification

Client


Sector

Fertilizer

 

Type

Multi-county

 

Category

Fortune 500

 

Area

Partner selection

 

Region

Africa

Situation


An Israeli fertilizer company wanted to enter West Africa via an export model using local distributors

Solution


Shortlisted potential partners in four countries based on capabilities, strengths, synergies with client portfolio, future plans, etc. Facilitated meetings with shortlisted partners to discuss terms and conditions of partnership and deal structuring

Evaluate opportunity for market entry

Client


Sector

Office Supplies

 

Type

Multi-county

 

Category

Fortune 500

 

Area

Market Size

 

Region

Asia

Situation


Leading European office supplies manufacture wanted to access Philippines market opportunity for its products and evaluate go/no-go decision.

Solution


Evaluated market size from both demand & supply side for 10 sub-segments by using external retail audits, interviews and assessing performance of key global and local players in the market

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