We help clients become insights-driven to achieve stronger performance through data and informed decision-making.
For professional service firms, understanding changes in client needs, expectations and concerns is critical to ensuring continued relevance of the firm’s proposition and to modify capabilities as required to remain competitive.
Data-led insights help firms navigate market uncertainties and shifts in client demands with the information and confidence necessary to take effective action.
Our view
Data alone can never be the change agent. The value and opportunity lies in the analysis of the information, demanding a proven set of tools and techniques that bring together predictor, benchmarking, and other analytics models with exceptional market knowledge to tackle client challenges.
The output delivers powerful insights that help professional service firms make decisions about strategy, organisation and performance leadership, operations and technology, marketing, distribution, and risk management.
How we help our clients
Client satisfaction research
To drive loyalty and advocacy, firms need a better understanding of their clients and focus on forming mutually beneficial relationships with their clients. We undertake client research professional services providing you with the information, resources and insight to make strategic client decisions. We can help you improve your understanding of your clients to enhance your knowledge as part of key client development programmes or strategic brand development.
Corporate reputation research
Understanding market perceptions of your firm is both enlightening and empowering. We deliver insight and impact through our reputation research service, enaging with stakeholders for feedback to identify potential perception divergence, and strategies to close any reputational gaps. Leveraging this insight enhances brand, corporate reputation and positioning to drive better organisational performance.
Market segmentation research
Our market research is designed to help you understand your firm’s position in relation to core segments, enabling you to identify new commercial opportunities. Our work is focused on helping firms define strategies and priorities for targeting and developing new and existing segments.
Product development research
Market research into new service line and product opportunities, interpreted with sector insight and experience, generates unique and actionable insights that help firms make decisions and minimise the risk of failure. Our consultants have deep industry and technical expertise, and understand the underlying industry economics, client needs and competitive dynamics at play when taking a new offering to market.
Impact stories
Post-pandemic stakeholder insights for engineering firm
We were engaged by a long-established engineering practice to carry out client and market research that would help inform post-pandemic marketing strategy.
We analysed the resulting data and insights, drawing our own extensive market knowledge, and developed a strategy that involved content production and distribution aimed at specific segments and introduced measures of strategic performance.
The firm saw a 36% increase in website visits and growth in conversion rates to 35%, up from 12%.
Law firm reputational audit
We were approached by a national practice to help improve corporate reputation. We conducted a reputational audit, engaging the range of stakeholders, and presented the findings along with our insights and recommendations. The firm used our report as the basis of a reputation drive to support client acquisition and retention, and to improve their employer brand.
