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Index helps businesses grow sustainable value and manage risks by focusing in four broad areas:  

1. Uncover, evaluate, target and capture growth opportunities in new product/ service segments or geographical markets (case-study)
2. Identify, assess and address business risks and vulnerabilities driven by changes in competitive, regulatory, technological and market environment (case-study)
3. Track and manage strategic business performance (case-study)
4. Strategic mapping and stakeholder engagement (case-study)

In particular, our clients value the privileged knowledge, insights and access on "external constituencies" (see diagram below) that we bring in delivering successful results in these areas. Accordingly, we have consistently and singularly invested in refining our specialised and core capabilities to analyse, assess, engage and influence "external" factors and stakeholders in businesses, notably in the following areas:

• Independent, fact-based ideas, unconstrained by any conflict-of-interest in our business model
• Pragmatic and actionable choices, reinforced by extensive business experience of our team members
• Wide and deep network of professional relationships, honed over several years of successful association and engagement
• Access to proprietary information sources
• Proficiency in cutting-edge analytical methodologies and tools that are comprehensive (covers extensive parts of the value chain), dynamic (tracks changes over time) and intricate (captures relevant inter-linkages and relationships)

Business Ecosystem: Index offers clients privileged knowledge insights and access to external constituencies

The scale and scope of our engagements are tailored to client needs and situations; consequently, our client assignments range from 1-week to 6 months in duration with team sizes of 2-6 consultants. Click here for more details on our engagement models.

Following are some of the projects that we have worked on in each of the above areas:

Business Objective	Select Example Projects
Strategic mapping and stakeholder engagement	Competitive strategy development Business portfolio review and optimisation Business planning, financial valuation and risk assessment to support investment decisions Strategic sale/divestment advisory and execution support Investment research and investor relations Financial and capital restructuring design and execution support
Growth / expansion in new geographical markets or product / service lines	Market size opportunity and risk assessment Emerging business opportunities and revenue models (e.g. web 20, quad-play etc). Market entry strategy M&G advisory and execution support Strategic valuation of synergy in M&A Independent business and financial valuation
Alignment of business model to evolving market, competitive and regulatory environment	Post-patent product strategy Go-to-market strategy (organisation transformation) for migrating from a product business model to a solutions (i.e. integrated product and services) business model. Value chain strategy (including inventory, warehousing/distribution flow patterns/ SLAs capacity. SKU management and make/buy decision analysis)
Performance Management	Development of performance metrics/KPI Performance benchmarking

Please review our case studies for more details on select assignments

The deliverables to clients are rigorously tested for internal/ external consistency, actionability and measurability. This discipline is critical to the success of our clients. For example, our transaction ideas (e.g. acquisition, divestiture, carve-outs, joint ventures or capital structure design) are driven by - and aligned to - the corporate strategy of our clients; we believe that the overall strategic blueprint of a business guides and informs transactions it participates in, and not the other way round.

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