Custom Consulting
Darnell Group often designs proprietary research and consulting services for the specific needs of clients. These range from highly targeted, single topic studies to the development of business plans for the start-up or market-entry operations.
Typical Custom Consulting projects include:
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Due diligence reports on potential acquisitions and investments
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Identification of market segment opportunities and competitive threats
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Product line extension analysis
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Competitive situation analysis
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Determination of price elasticity of demand for new products or technologies
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plus much much more...
Benchmarking Services
"Reducing customer defections by as little as five (percentage) points - from, say 15% to 10% per year - can double profits"
- Fredrick F. Reichheld, "Learning from Customer Defections,"
Harvard Business Review
Darnell Group has a unique benchmarking technique that provides a quantified, independent, third-party analysis of vendor performance and customer perceptions for specific industries. Data collection includes a two-page questionnaire that is designed to assess the company's products, service and capabilities relative to other suppliers. The questionnaire first "qualifies" the respondents by job function and industry, and then identifies three "top" vendors that the company is measured against. Companies can draw on two database options: a general database of responses to compare company performance against general industry customer perceptions; and a specific customer database supplied by the company to measure performance against the perceptions of the company's own customers.
The results include the following "business intelligence tools":
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Customer rankings of the company's product offerings, service offerings and supplier capabilities.
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The company's overall performance relative to other suppliers.
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Implications about mindshare and market share dynamics.
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Where a company is likely to fall along a "value map" that indicates whether a company is gaining or losing market share, or whether it is likely to gain or lose market share.
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plus much much more...
The benchmarking process allows a company to target its resources for the greatest return and allows it to focus on areas of improvement.
Please contact us for a schedule and details if you would like to participate.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Darnell Group regularly recieves requests for assistance in locating companies for acquisition or from companies seeking additional equity funding. This activity is a natural complement to our regular due dilligence work for venture capital firms and our market/strategic planning activities for power electronic manufacturing companies. All activities in this area are handled on a private and confidential basis.
Annual Information Services
Benefits:
- Comprehensive, customized annual market intelligence subscription service.
- Immediate access to Darnell analysts and receipt of on-going quantitative updates.
- In-depth market analysis together with regular on-going strategic updates.
- You will save 45% compared with the cost of the Core Services if purchased separately.
- Your savings can be expanded even further with the additional 30% savings that you will enjoy for registrations at any Darnell conferences and any added research services you may purchase during your Annual Market Intelligence Service subscription.
Smart Interactive Multimedia Publishing
No matter what your application, Smart Interactive Multimedia Publishing enables you to combine the best features of Print publications, the Internet and conventional CDs. And your SIMP will include extensive capabilities that can be matched by no other publishing technology. Darnell.Com's SIMP technology is so unique that it is protected by a series of patent applications. No other publishing technology can match the capabilities and ease of use inherent in Smart Interactive Multimedia Publishing.
Contact Us
Darnell Group
1159B Pomona Rd.
Corona, CA. 92882-6926
Phone: 951-279-6684
Fax: 951-273-9505
salesdep@darnell.com
