i2D-partners – Investigation | Insight | Development
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Strategic insight and foresight

STRATEGIC INSIGHT AND FORESIGHT

We gather business-critical information and derive the insights needed to manage risk, foster operational excellence, and to make informed, strategic decisions.

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It’s generally poor communication, rarely poor quality! When my employees are on the construction site and have a problem, and the equipment supplier can’t be reached for quick support – that’s a huge problem!

Construction components, market entry, DACH-region
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We have to remain competitive, and for that we need professional and reliable partners. It would help us if they were less stolid and more flexible.

Plant construction, customer insight-driven business development, Germany
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They are really good! But there’s one Swedish company that I consider best practice in terms of customer training and support.

Agricultural equipment, M&A, Nordics
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In ventilation solutions they aren’t the leader. Company X for instance is much more innovative in my opinion.

HVAC equipment, M&A, Germany
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The generated insights helped us to take immediate action. We discovered small issues that we weren’t aware of, and that we could change. Already minor adjustments brought significant and quick results in terms of sales improvement.

Mechanical engineering, Customer insight, Germany
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In the commercial sector we are obliged to use equipment certified by this organisation. I like the product’s design! I am sure we would use it if it had the required certification.

Building technology, market entry, Germany

AREAS

Strategic business development

We support you in gathering the strategic insights needed to harvest business opportunities, build competitive advantage, and mitigate risks.

International business

We provide investigative research and advisory services that help you understand market characteristics and particularities, identify local customers and business partners and to craft a market entry or growth strategy.

Investment, mergers & acquisitions

We provide a range of intelligence and analytics services for institutional investors, such as target identification, approach strategy, and commercial due diligence support.

Product management & innovation

We support your innovation process from the ideation to the launch stage.

SERVICES

Market intelligence and analytics

Understanding the particularities of a specific market or industry is vital for identifying opportunities, assessing risks and for crafting successful growth strategies.

We provide professional market intelligence and analytics on local market size, developments, local consumer habits, distribution channels, customer segments, competitive landscape and dynamics, legal and regulatory requirements. We offer services tailored to your needs, both on an ad hoc and continuous (monitoring) basis.

Customer insight

Price, quality, service, trust … What are your existing and prospective clients’ key criteria when choosing a supplier? A prospective customer’s order appears too good to be true?

Knowing your customer is essential from a business development and also a risk management perspective. We support you in gathering the deep customer insights you need to win new customers and to build sustainable client relationships.

Business intelligence

Today’s fast-moving environment, decision-making needs timely data, interactive dashboards and clear reports. Business intelligence solutions help you organise, analyse, and visualise internal and external data, enabling you to monitor financial, operational, organisational performance and quality.

We deploy Business intelligence solutions over your data, helping you derive insights, understand trends and underpin data driven strategic business decisions.