Strategy consulting is about working with clients to shape their
outlook and direction, as opposed to working within existing structures
to achieve operational and financial improvements.
Strategy consulting is deeply rooted in concrete financial, marketing
and economic analysis; a broad spectrum of knowledge, understanding
and expertise gathered over many years, many industries, in many
countries; and specific recommendations that are results-oriented
at all times.
“Zero Sum” Strategies
What do we mean by “zero sum” strategy?
Under normal circumstances marketing is designed to increase a
company’s or product’s market share – which means
that somebody else has to lose for you to win.
With strategic marketing consulting, our strategies are not focused
on gaining market share at the expense of someone else losing market
share. We look for strategies to increase the size of the market
as a whole.
By being the leader in the expansion of the whole market, by way
of new markets, new applications and/or new, joint ventures and
so forth, the incremental income produced can be way in excess of
gaining market share at someone else’s expense; and achieved
at a much faster rate.
As a strategic consultant, we are different to other consultants
in that our agenda is to increase the whole market segment (as described
above), whereas other consultants often have their own agenda in
recommending solutions based on their experience in a particular
discipline of marketing, aimed at taking market share from other
high profile participants in same market.
We start with no pre-conceptions. We look at your product/service
and look for new markets, additional markets, niche markets; we
try to improve the yield from your own existing markets and highlight
areas of collaborative opportunities. We achieve this through using
factual research and adapting creative and innovative strategies
to your industry/problem; by discovering and leveraging customer
insights to obtain a deeper level of understanding of their needs
in relation to the product/service offered.
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