Frost & Sullivan applies a comprehensive and integrated approach to help our clients achieve a balanced view of the market and make informed strategic decisions to reach their growth objectives. By leveraging the unique combination of elements in our Growth Partnership Services program, including direct access to our expert analysts, clients receive a complete picture of the market from Technical, Economic, Application, and Market perspectives.
Core elements include:
Additional elements include:
- Initial ‘Kick-off’ meeting with your Frost & Sullivan support team
- On-line usage reports of your accessed content
- Client Councils to drive the research process
- Quarterly Analyst Briefings and electronic Newsletters on industry topics
- Customized Client Portal for electronic access to owned content
- Analyst inquiry time for interactive sessions with our research analysts
TECHNICAL INSIGHTS
Real-time intelligence including emerging technologies, new R&D breakthroughs, technology forecasting, and technology impact analysis.
Technical Insights Research: Includes new and emerging technical intelligence, R&D breakthroughs, patent information, access to contact information for those driving new technologies to market, information delivered to the client before it becomes common knowledge, identify potential opportunities as well as disruptive technologies.
Technical Alerts: Relevant research articles discussing emerging and disruptive technologies in the industry, released quarterly or monthly. Alert titles include: Plastics Advisor Alert; Inside R&D Alert; Performance Materials Alert; Advance Coatings and Surface Technology Alert; High Tech Materials Alert; Futuretech Alert; Nanotech Alert; Automotive & Transportation Alert; Sensor Technology Alert.
ECONOMIC RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
In-depth research focused on timely and critical global, regional, & country specific trends, including the political, demographic, and socioeconomic landscapes
Country Industry Forecasts: Socio-metric, economic, demographic, political, and regulatory information by country. Helps you stay current on factors affecting the countries in which you currently operate; identify opportunities for geographic expansion and support market growth; gain insight into the global marketplace for increased awareness and reduced risk.
Decision Support Database - Demand, supply, select customer demographics, and pertinent economic measurements by market sector. Allows you to quickly identify and analyze pertinent information with quantitative data tables in spreadsheet format with comprehensive global coverage through 48 leading countries, over a 11-year span.
FINANCIAL BENCHMARKING & ANALYSIS
Comprehensive analysis of key growth markets and industries, utilizing both primary and secondary research methodologies
We determine topics for financial analysis through interactions with our clients and evaluations of market needs. Financial Benchmarking & Analysis services are released throughout the year. Custom financial analysis can also be conducted on an individual client basis. Types of Analysis include:
- Industry growth monitors
- Financial benchmarking
- Company mapping
- Public and private company analysis
- Topical research: key trends & issues
- Ratio analysis (working capital, ROI, etc.)
- Investment ideas and analysis
- Value chain and industry economics
EVENTS
High-level, client-centric strategic learning experiences that explore market opportunities, competitive threats, technical trends, emerging markets, and competitive strategies
Each event is over 80% interactive and offers hands-on learning while our participants network, benchmark, and forge new business relationships with industry leaders. Events are held throughout the year at top destinations.
For more information on Frost & Sullivan events, dates, and venues, please visit www.frost.com/events.
GROWTH WORKSHOPS
Interactive and collaborative event bringing together key management personnel to evaluate specific market opportunities from theory to implementation
Customized Growth Workshops: Offer a creative medium for clients to work directly with Frost & Sullivan industry experts to deeply explore the state of the market, as well as their internal objectives and capabilities.
- Establish a narrow portfolio of key market opportunities from a larger pool of options
- Generate fresh ideas, strategies for growth, and implementation tactics
- Develop strategies to overcome obstacles in the market
- Design measurement and monitoring criteria to ensure that objectives are met
Growth Workshops are focused on a specific industry sector and are based on Frost & Sullivan's latest market engineering research or custom consulting projects. Clients may enhance their subscription with Customized Growth Workshops available throughout the subscription term.
CORPORATE TRAINING
Individual or customized in-company training solutions to help clients achieve their strategic objectives through their people.
As a supplement to the Growth Partnership Services subscription, Frost & Sullivan's Corporate Training helps clients develop skills, behaviors, and knowledge in sales, marketing, management, and technology. The curriculum of the training classes is tailored to the needs of the specific company, however, the solutions focus on the following core areas:
- People management
- Personal Development
- Project Management
- Working with other Cultures
- Sales
- Customer Service
- Marketing
- Product Management
- Technology & Business
GROWTH CONSULTING
Customized research, business strategy and organizational development initiatives that provide powerful and practical solutions to help clients successfully address their growth challenges.
As a supplement, the client may also commission Growth Consulting projects. These services are tailor-made on a case-by-case basis, leveraging our unique combination of market expertise, global presence, and relationships with key industry players. Our Growth Consulting utilizes an integrated approach that includes:
- Articulating and refining each client's specific growth objectives and challenges
- Mapping and measuring the external market-competitive opportunities landscape
- Assessing the client's internal growth execution capabilities
- Partnering to translate prioritized opportunities into high impact strategies, action plans and measurable results
Growth Consulting services allow clients to collaborate intimately with our teams of consultants and market experts to quickly identify and qualify new growth opportunities in the marketplace, and successfully grow their businesses.
MARKET ENGINEERING RESEARCH
Measurement-based market strategies developed through our exclusive market engineering methodology
Regional and global perspective of the market including market trends and forecasts, drivers and restraints, emerging challenges, regulatory and reimbursement factors, strategic recommendations, and competitive analyses; includes direct access to the analysts to request clarification for current or historical research, and engage in dialogue to gain a deeper understanding of the markets covered within our research.
CUSTOMER RESEARCH
End-user research gathered through face-to-face sessions, telephone interviews, and internet surveys; uses state-of-the-art qualitative and quantitative analysis to derive deep insights into customer behavior and attitudes
We determine topics for customer research through interactions with our clients and evaluations of market needs. Customer Research projects are published intermittently throughout the year.
We can also conduct custom customer research projects on an individual client basis.
Sample Data Types:
- Identification of primary factors driving brand selection
- Evaluation of importance of product characteristics
- Detailed analysis of current brand perception
- Assessment of existing brand awareness versus the competition
- Evaluation of these factors among various demographics
