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| LRP/bi RESEARCH [LRP/bi Research | LRP/bi Advisory | LRP/bi Consulting | LRP/bi Corporate
Services]
LRP/bi Research provides a wide range of
"macro-level" and "micro-level" research services to clients
operating in a variety of markets across Asia, Europe, and the United States.
Our "macro-level" research
provides clients with actionable intelligence regarding global, regional, and local
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We conduct market research, industry
research, and sector research, all of which can be customized to
include our analysis of sizing, segmentation, unit growth, traditional growth drivers,
emerging growth drivers, growth inhibitors, patent activity, new product activity, product
pricing, raw material cost trends, and profitability trends. We can also include
competitor profiles, supplier profiles, customer profiles, as well as our analysis of
joint venture activity, merger activity, acquisition targets, and financing
activity. All market, industry, and sector intelligence delivered by our firm
includes our analysis of key cultural, social, political, and regulatory issues relating
to the creation of competitive advantage and the maximization of operating performance and
shareholder value. |
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We conduct economic research
regarding the global, regional, and local economic variables that are critical to a
client's operations. The typical focus of this research is to anticipate changes in
key variables such as interest rates, inflation, and wages. These changes are beyond
the control of management, but offensive and defensive strategies for positive and
negative scenarios can be developed. |
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LRP/bi has created a cutting-edge management
tool, the G-R-L MATRIX™, which identifies the key global,
regional, and local influences shaping a competitive space, and projects the
evolution of key G-R-L variables over time. This proprietary tool blends
quantitative and qualitative competitive, financial, economic, cultural, social,
technologic, and political datapoints into an actionable "motion picture" of any
competitive space. In essence, our G-R-L MATRIX™ provides global, regional, and
local business managers with the ultimate in "comprehensive situational
awareness". |
| The broad research services described above can be disaggregated
into custom business intelligence solutions that connect with specific client
needs. |
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We conduct detailed competitive
intelligence (CI) studies including competitor profiling, competitor
monitoring, product teardown analysis, competitive benchmarking, SWOT analysis, and
traditional competitive kaizen/kaiaku analysis. Our
confidential CI Dossiers can be customized to include our analysis of established
competition, emerging competitive threats, partnering activity, merger activity, capital
expenditure activity, plant capacity, workforce sizing and shift activity, employee
turnover, financing activity, new product activity, patent activity, product failures,
customer gain/loss activity, customer acquisition costs, supplier gain/loss activity,
market share dynamics, competitor blind spots, E3 (embrace, extend, extinguish)
opportunities and threats, key talent in key disciplines, key talent movement, and
"star discipline" cultures. We can also provide our analysis of
production cost management, operating expense management, capital structure management,
value network management, "SCOR" implementation, "DCOR"
implementation, and ERP (enterprise resource planning) practices. We design our competitive benchmarking studies to include key
quantitative and qualitative factors such as product performance leadership,
repeat purchase leadership, customer loyalty leadership, price leadership, cost
leadership, inventory turnover leadership, productivity leadership, distribution
leadership, technology leadership, team-play leadership, product innovation leadership,
acquired-business assimilation leadership, financial performance leadership,
cost-of-capital leadership, and equity valuation (price-to-sales, price-to-earnings,
price-to-book value ratio) leadership. |
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We conduct detailed company-by-company new
product activity studies including our analysis of research and development
activity, patent filings, Alpha test activity, Beta test activity,
"EYODF" activity, production costs, product specifications, product performance,
product positioning, pricing tactics and strategies, product packaging, advertising and
promotion activity, distribution strategy, product support, customer service, customer
product ratings, E3 activity, product successes, product failures, executive recruiting,
work force expansion, external vendor hires, and changes in productive capacity. |
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We conduct detailed customer search
and customer profiling studies including our analysis of the buyer-seller
power balance, customer satisfaction, customer perceptions, unsatisfied customer needs,
and customer loyalty. |
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We conduct detailed supplier search
and supplier profiling studies including our analysis of the buyer-seller
power balance, supplier perceptions, and supplier loyalty. |
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We conduct detailed competitor
patent search and competitor patent profiling studies including
our analysis of research and development hiring trends, research and development ROI, new
product potential, historical "patent-to-profit" performance, and key scientist
and key engineer identification. We also conduct
detailed intellectual property studies including our analysis of
protection, piracy, and recourse issues in international markets. |
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We conduct detailed product price
intelligence studies in local markets around the globe for public companies,
pre-public companies, professional investment managers, and venture capital fund managers.
These studies can be conducted on either a "one-time" or
"periodic" basis. We also create price indices which
compare product or service prices across various geographic locations at a single point in
time, and we create price indices that track prices in a single market over time.
Price intelligence can be gathered for single items or for "product
baskets". |
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We gather trade show intelligence
across Asia, Europe, and the United States for public companies, pre-public companies,
professional investment managers, and venture capital fund managers. |
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We conduct detailed merger and
acquisition analysis including deal structures and benefits to operating scale,
growth, cost structure, and short-term and long-term stock valuations. We also
conduct merger and acquisition target search, strategic partner
search, and joint venture partner search. (Notably, many of the analytical
tools employed by LRP/bi to evaluate competition are used by our firm to evaluate merger
and acquisition candidates.) |
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We conduct detailed studies regarding debt
and equity financing trends. These studies can include our analysis of
capital sources, deal structures, real capital costs, dilution, covenants, and
restrictions. |
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We also conduct due diligence
studies for investment bankers, venture capital fund managers, public companies, and
pre-public companies seeking to independently verify claims made by merger, acquisition,
joint venture, investment, and initial public offering and secondary financing targets. |
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We create "custom
business-intelligence dossiers" for public companies, pre-public companies,
professional portfolio managers, and venture capital fund managers. These dossiers
contain our analysis of unique local customs, demand patterns, supply issues, cost trends,
competition, currency mobility, import/export considerations, politics, and legal
systems. They are created on either a "one-time" or "periodic"
basis. |
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We conduct company analysis
and business model analysis for professional portfolio managers, venture
capital fund managers, investment bankers, public companies, and pre-public companies. |
| Our "micro-level" research
provides clients with actionable intelligence regarding the key factors driving decision
making at both the individual and enterprise levels. |
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We conduct focus groups in
local markets across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Our FG protocol elicits
actionable insights regarding individual product and service perceptions as expressed in
group settings. |
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We conduct questionnaire-based target
group surveys in local markets. These surveys are administered either in
person or via telephone. We assist in project design and in all phases of project
implementation. We also provide a rigorous analysis of survey results. |
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We conduct local-market transaction
analysis surveys in which we scrutinize the key factors forming individual and
enterprise purchase decisions in simulated transaction settings. |
| All LRP/bi services have been designed with each
client's return on investment in mind. Our firm's "delivery
model" for every project includes the early establishment of specific project goals
such as increased unit sales, improved pricing, higher market share, lower
production costs, lower operating costs, lower cost of capital, successful partnerships
and acquisitions, and, ultimately, higher shareholder value. Please contact us for further
details regarding LRP/bi Research services. |
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