Approach
MDS Strategy creates actionable output through close collaboration with clients, leveraging bespoke market insight.
Collaborate
Collaborate closely and efficiently
- Align closely on your objectives
- Free you up to focus on the "day to day"
Build a deep understanding of your business
- Gather input from across your organisation
- Leverage existing knowledge
- Unearth hidden challenges
Work flexibly to address critical business critical problems
- Not a "one-size-fits-all" process
- Test your "BAU" operating assumptions
Create bespoke insight
Bring the voice of the customer into your decision making
- Customer needs and pain points
- Buying processes and expectations
- Satisfaction and competitor perception
Develop new insight in data poor or underreported markets
- Bespoke market sizing and segmentation
- Fit-for-purpose competitive factbase
- Supplier and customer dynamics
Build business specific insights
Deliver actionable output
Deliver clearly synthesized evidence and strategic direction for decision makers
Create concrete, actionable deliverables for relevant teams in the organisation
- Commercial - prioritised prospects and pipelines
- Commercial - processes for new markets
- Operational - implementation plans for synergies and strategic priorities
- Corporate development - acquisition prospects and pipelines
Flexible engagement models
MDS Strategy can work on a traditional consulting project basis or on more flexible engagements for clients with evolving needs
Flexible team engagements
How does it work?
- Define overall project objectives
- Scope out the short-term deliverables on a regular basis e.g. weekly
- Deploy a project team as needed
Benefits
- Reduced upfront risk
- Suited to projects with evolving needs and high degree of ambiguity
"Traditional" project engagement
How does it work?
- Define overall project objectives and deliverables up front
- Potential to phase more complex projects
Benefits
- Provides up front of visibility of outcomes and costs
- Well suited to projects with clear deliverables