One permanent specialist
Consistent internal capacity, but one professional profile and a longer recruitment process.
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Offer 06 · Your External Strategy & Insights Team
How do we get strategy, insights and BI capability—without hiring several full-time specialists?
A flexible senior capability for reporting, market intelligence, BI, planning and important business decisions. Built for small and mid-sized businesses that need continuity and specialist support without building a full internal function.
Best for
Small and mid-sized businesses without a dedicated strategy, insights or BI function—or teams that need experienced additional capacity without a lengthy recruitment process.
What the client receives
- A clear monthly agenda, defined outputs and a reliable decision rhythm.
- Automated or recurring reporting with one trusted view of performance.
- Monthly interpretation and quarterly sales or commercial performance reviews.
An alternative to permanent hires
Several specialist capabilities in one flexible senior team.
Choose the capacity that matches the business need—not a larger setup than the task requires.
A small specialist firm
Flexible depth in one area, but often less breadth across strategy, insight and execution.
One connected senior team
Strategy, insight, BI and automation organised around the decisions and priorities that matter now.
First month: align goals, prioritise deliverables and agree a practical meeting and reporting rhythm.Five business questions
The decision becomes clearer when the right questions are explicit.
- 01
What should the business know—and do—based on this month’s performance?
- 02
How can we automate reporting and create one trusted decision view?
- 03
What changes in customer demand, markets or competitors require action?
- 04
What should shape our next quarterly review and annual plan?
- 05
What evidence is needed for the next major growth decision?
Standard starting scope
- Agreed monthly priorities and recurring outputs.
- One monthly prioritisation meeting and a defined reporting rhythm.
- Initial service scope confirmed before the partnership begins.
Scope expansion possibilities
- Broader analytical or advisory support.
- Automated dashboards, data pipelines and complex reporting infrastructure.
- New primary research, multi-market trackers or specialist data acquisition.
Global application
One decision framework. Local context where it matters.
Operate as the client’s external insights capability across countries: standardise performance views, coordinate new evidence across 90 markets and bring a consistent decision narrative to monthly and quarterly choices.
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Major projects, primary research, licences and complex data engineering are scoped and priced separately.