Ambient Insight strives to make clients self-sufficient. Our project strategy is to provide continuous knowledge transfer that allows clients to own their intellectual property and to help them reduce dependencies on external consultants, including ourselves. Ambient provides clients with five major types of consulting services.

Custom Research Services

• Leading Indicator Analysis
• Market Trends and Competitive Intelligence
• Strategic: Addressable Market and Revenue Projections
• Tactical: Next Generation Product Pipeline Roadmaps
• Merger and Acquisition Target Analysis

We have shown industry leaders how to migrate to higher margin products and new revenues without replacing current product lines or jeopardizing legacy revenue streams. For previous clients, we have developed multi-year tactical roadmaps, strategic product pipelines, revenue stream timelines, pricing models, and short lists of acquisition targets.

Leading Indicator Analysis Leading indicators signal emerging markets and new revenue opportunities. Be first to market. Find investment and financing partners. Analysis includes venture capital investment trends, executive hiring patterns, patent applications, technology-related legislation, technology standards development, product research trends, patterns of innovation, product life-cycle patterns, technology infrastructure trends, and global product successes. Market Trends and Competitive Intelligence What are customers buying? What have they stopped buying? Who is the buyer in the context of increased Learning Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) in the enterprise? What products appeal to buyers in each customer segment? What products are declining in demand? What does the competitive landscape look like? Who are the suppliers disrupting the market? Strategic: Addressable Market and Revenue Projections Taking a product to market? Will your product be successful? How much money will you make in the market? Revenue projections for 3 and 5-year product cycles. Customer segmentation broken out by corporate, local government, local and state government, federal civilian and military government, PreK-12 academic, higher education academic, associations, healthcare, and consumer. Revenues broken out by content, content services, technology, and hosting services. Tactical: Next Generation Product Pipeline Roadmaps Custom technical feasibility studies for new product lines. Looking for new revenues? Detailed analysis of product lifecycles and product migration paths. Build scalable information architectures and learning technology form-factors that will remain viable in the next 3-5 years. Phase out learning technologies that will lose market share or become commoditized. Get profitable products into the pipeline. Merger and Acquisition Target Analysis Detailed analysis of potential merger and acquisition (M&A) targets. Looking to grow through a horizontal or vertical M&A transaction? Analysis includes company profile, product taxonomy, burn rate, investors, debt, capital, Universal Commercial Code banking reports, public-domain business records, court records, press releases, staff, management, partnerships, licensing agreements, intellectual property, competitors, and ability to execute. Back to Top

Ambient Insight's 2009 rate sheet is available upon request. To learn more about our services, send e-mail to  info@ambientinsight.com.