How You Benefit
Independent Analysis Of Sustainable Business Strategies
The priority for the Verdantix research team is to deliver independent, relevant, timely analysis and advice to help you achieve competitive advantage. We help you to:
- Enhance competitive advantage with your sustainability strategy. Sustainability is a set of business beliefs about current and future sources of competitive advantage. Verdantix analysts conduct detailed research on policy change, market trends and technology innovation to help you understand how your firm’s sustainability strategy give you competitive edge. Our sector benchmarks clarify your current position relative to a peer group and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Anticipate how policy changes create risks and opportunities for your business. Policy changes in areas like feed-in tariffs for renewable energy, subsidies for electric vehicles and taxes on carbon emissions reshape the rules of commercial success. Verdantix analysts apply their deep knowledge of energy and environmental policy to advise clients on how to cope and benefit from changes or delays policy.
- Turn sustainability into an innovation opportunity and identify your opportunities. Sustainability trends such as energy costs, natural resource prices and voter attitudes will redefine over several decades the basis for competition in every industry. We conduct detailed country-by-country analysis to find new market opportunities for our clients today and into the future. Our detailed Critical Moments market sizing and forecasting methodology is unique globally.
Saving You Time
We have designed our Knowledge Service to provide relevant and timely research for time-pressed business decision makers. Through our frequent market surveys and industry contacts we ensure our research tackles your priority business issues today. We save you time through:
- Prioritized insights from fact-based research. We work hard to ensure all the research we produce is relevant and timely. Our Knowledge Service helps you make the right decision much faster than wasting time searching for random information on the Web or travelling to multiple industry events.
- Concise summaries of proven successes. By scouring different sectors for evidence of proven best practices in corporate responsibility, carbon markets and climate change we help you quickly leverage existing solutions. You save time on idea generation, organizational design, project design and supplier selection.
- Quality analysis delivered to your desktop. We produce crisp data-driven and analytical research in a standard format that you can quickly scan and identify key take-aways. All research is available in our searchable online research store enabling you to cut through market noise and read only high value add analysis.
Saving You Money
Business challenges triggered by high oil prices, carbon legislation and shifting customer preferences will force firms to spend money on change projects, strategy development and reputation management. Our syndicated research model is designed to:
- Offer cost effective advice. You can benefit from advice to craft your response to climate change but advice can be very costly. We are a subscription-based research firm so we spread the cost of data gathering, analysis and advice generation across multiple clients. The economics of our business model mean that you benefit from a much more cost effective service than alternative providers such as consultants, industry events or custom research.
- Leverage best practices. We conduct best practices research projects that identify cost savings in detailed waterfall charts in areas such as energy management, purchasing renewable energy, carbon trading and supplier selection. Our objective is to help you save money on the projects you launch by documenting best practices.
- Avoid reinventing the wheel. As spending on climate change mitigation and adaptation increases, firms risk investing in projects which fail to take off. For instance, many areas of "cleantech" such as biofuels, fuel cells for passenger cars and carbon capture and storage are commercially unproven. Our research and advice can help validate major decisions as well as question the likelihood of success. Failure avoidance can save your firm millions of pounds.
Challenging Conventional Wisdom
Verdantix is an independent research firm. We ensure that our advice is not sugar-coated. When our analysis contradicts conventional wisdom we go right ahead and publish our findings. From experience we know that people leading change projects in large firms need independent analysis to:
- Overcome internal roadblocks. Sustainability is a global phenomenon and its impacts will be felt in regions far away from the global HQ. Our independence, integrity and data-driven insights help you to overcome internal inertia. We develop bold business ideas to help you wake up sleeping executives.
- Critique questionable business cases. Using our data and expertise Verdantix helps you critically vet business cases as a set of "third eyes" free from company politics. We offer research clients a half-day or full-day customised decision support service to jointly tackle the toughest business problems.
- Provide independent thought leadership. Whether or not you believe in the advent of a low carbon economy the reality is that a wide range of ambitious multi-billion pound projects have been launched to profitably tackle climate change. Verdantix can provide you with big ideas to stimulate the strategic thinking in your firm.