MARKET ANALYSIS
There are few critical steps required to conduct market research effectively: following the initial understanding of the client needs and their position in the competitive environment, to design market research requires to identify the few but critical variables at the foundation of the project. The ability to Center the study on the essential variables is the first critical step.
Conducting a study requires an ongoing realignment of the study focus with the findings. The flexibility to adjust the study focus to match the opportunities and the ongoing findings is essential to obtain a most up to date findings.
A well-defined methodology and data structuring which in turn requires a broad and deep understand of the variable being considered represents another critical step.
The complexity of streamlining design, focus adjustment when required and structuring data and methodology, goes hands in hand with the goal to keep all conceptually simple.
The research outcome needs to be optimized to minimize man-hours and costs to the Client while needs to be frequently adjusted to keep the analysis close to the current industry environment.
- Design and tailor analysis to client needs
- Advanced market research
- Target markets and product positioning
DYNAMICS and MECHANISM
All elements part of consulting solutions are often intertwined one-another in complex interactive mechanisms: the understanding of the elasticity linking the key factors at stake in any evaluation, like their mutual cause – effect relationship is fundamental to map scenarios alternative to the base case outlook.
Factors like, feedstock’s relative pricing, economic growth, regional investments, the evolution of trade patterns are all essential elements that combined in a clear vision provide useful benchmarks sequences for scenario planning and outlooks.
Few examples:
- Products and regional drivers
- Scenarios evolutions and mechanism
- Key players and competitive intelligence
BUSINESS and COMMERCIAL
Commercial assessments of agreements regulating products offtake, sales contracts or scheduling and dynamics of contracts such as licensing, EPC, transportation are all essential requisites to a successful project development to make investors retain bargaining power.
The perception of the likely direction of economic trends and their impact on the negotiating parties often adds an additional element of knowledge to support commercial negotiations.
Most of these elements are often kept disconnected, Rather than evaluating and monitoring these elements continuously during the commercial evolution of negotiations they are often kept disconnected, with the result of loosing barganing power. Key areas include:
- Partners identifications and MOU preliminaries
- Design of commercial agreements
- Design of commercial Strategic fit