Economic Solutions

We are a source of effective ideas and appropriate solutions.

We are a group of consultants with considerable experience in the forestry and resource sector in British Columbia, as well as worldwide. We provide an external perspective that can stimulate innovation and support decision making to obtain the highest possible ROI at an acceptable level of risk.

We tackle a variety of business issues that you or your clients may encounter.  For example, we assist primary and secondary forest companies in solving problems and getting products to market faster by supplying a combination of leading edge economic and risk assessment tools such as management and marketing expertise, innovative decision support and multi-objective analysis tools, as well as access to our expert advisory network.

More specifically, we assist the public and private resource sectors to realize desired strategies and add value by assisting their assessment of organizational and operational capabilities.  We provide expertise, tools, and methods to improve effectiveness, efficiency and profitability over time by considering all possible program and product strategies, configurations, and constraints, as well as explicitly addressing risk.  We also assist manager’s increase their certainty and understanding by providing custom tools for managers to easily analyze and compare the alternatives.  In an adaptive management sense, this allows management to revisit the outcome as the accuracy of the information improves or conditions change.

Some of our offered services are:

Data

Information Collection
Data Management
Customized Data Mining Tools
Benchmarking Tools
Determining Market Potential Over Time Using Customized Integrated Business Research and Economic Analysis

Analysis

Information Analysis
Benchmarking
Situational Analysis
Economic Forecasting
Market Assessment
Cost Benefit Analysis
Economic Impact Assessment
Performance Measurement
Return on Investment

Strategy

Integration of Business Research and Analysis
Marketing Assessment and Development Strategy
Assessment of Company-Wide  Capabilities and Operations
Capturing Efficiency Through Standardizing Processes
Prioritization of Strategic Challenges Using Multiple Objective Analysis and Risk Analysis

Business and Research Analysis

Market Sizing, Growth and Critical Success Factors
Focused Intelligence Research and Analysis
Competitive Product/Feature/Benefit Assessments
Assessing Likely Market Responses to Planned Future Moves
Partner and Acquisition Candidate Screening and Due Diligence Support

Planning

“Big Picture” Strategic Planning
Information Management
Customized Decision Management
Alternative Product Strategies

Marketing

Situational Analysis
Economic Forecasting
Interpreting Needs and Identification of Markets with the Greatest Potential
Integrating Business Research and Analysis and Assisting Targeting the Right Products to the Right Markets

Implementation

Market Plan Implementation
Business Plan Implementation
Program Implementation

We can help your team solve problems.