Strategy and competitive positioning

Every consulting firm is different, yet most are facing clients who persist in pigeon-holing firms according to their historical capabilities, not based on the services they offer today. Despite widespread restructuring and repositioning, most clients still see the consulting industry as being made up from a small number of homogeneous segments – strategy, operational improvement, HR, IT, etc – and buy accordingly.

Achieving and sustaining competitive advantage is enormously difficult in an industry everyone can at least appear to copy what everyone else does. Breaking out of the mould requires two things: a management team that is genuinely prepared to engage in a constructive debate about what needs to change; and hard-hitting and accurate analysis of the status quo, based on client feedback and in-depth knowledge of the trends in specific segments of the consulting industry.

If you can supply the former, Arkimeda can supply the latter.

If we’ve already got the information you need, our input might be as simple as running a workshop going over the results for your management team. Other firms ask us to carry out analysis of specific areas of the market, going to a level of detail that’s far beyond what is available in standard reports on the industry.

Using the industry intelligence we gather through our research programme, we can provide you with a unique perspective on the extent to which your strategic positioning does, or does not, genuinely differentiate you in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

Contact us for more information.