Strategy Consulting | SIS International
Evidence-Based Strategy Consulting

Strategy Consulting Where the Recommendation Comes from the Market, Not the Framework

Management consultancies sell frameworks and staff junior analysts to populate them. SIS International sells evidence gathered directly from the buyers, competitors, and channel partners that determine whether a strategy works. We run 15-30 structured expert interviews per engagement, triangulated with competitive mapping and secondary analysis, across 135+ countries. The recommendation comes from what the market said, not what the model predicted.

Strategy consulting: competitive intelligence interview for market entry decision
How We Work

Six Consulting Practices Built on Primary Evidence

競爭情報

SIS builds competitive profiles from primary sources: interviews with competitor employees (within ethical and legal boundaries), former executives, channel partners, and shared customers. We map competitor pricing architecture, go-to-market structure, product roadmap signals, and talent acquisition patterns. The output is not a SWOT matrix. It is a specific, sourced assessment of how each named competitor will respond to your strategic move. Apple, Samsung, and Visa have all used competitive intelligence from primary interviews to inform product launch timing and pricing decisions.

Commercial Due Diligence

Private equity firms and corporate acquirers use SIS for commercial due diligence on target companies. We interview the target’s customers, suppliers, and channel partners to validate revenue sustainability, customer concentration risk, competitive position, and market growth assumptions. The work happens under NDA with no disclosure of the acquirer’s identity.

Market Entry and Expansion Strategy

SIS conducts in-country feasibility assessments for companies entering new geographies. We interview distributors, regulatory advisors, channel buyers, and end customers in the target market to produce a go/no-go recommendation grounded in field evidence. The work covers addressable market validation, channel structure mapping, competitive landscape assessment, pricing viability, and regulatory pathway analysis.

進入市場策略

SIS designs go-to-market strategies informed by primary research with the target buyer. We interview prospective customers to understand their purchase decision process, evaluate channel partner readiness, and test pricing and positioning before the launch. For a B2B SaaS client entering the European mid-market, SIS conducted 25 interviews with IT procurement directors and identified that the client’s freemium model, which worked in North America, would fail because European mid-market buyers expected direct sales engagement and negotiated enterprise agreements. The GTM was redesigned before launch.

Demand Forecasting and Market Sizing

SIS builds demand models from primary data sources: buyer interviews, channel partner volume estimates, and competitive share analysis. We do not extrapolate from secondary databases. When Ipsos or Euromonitor publishes a market size, they are aggregating reported data. SIS validates those figures by interviewing actual buyers and distributors in the market to confirm whether the reported numbers reflect real purchase behavior. A medical device client discovered through SIS primary research that the published market size for their category in APAC overstated addressable demand by 40% because it included government tender volumes that were not accessible to foreign manufacturers.

Voice of the Customer for Strategic Planning

SIS designs VOC programs that feed directly into strategic planning cycles. We conduct structured interviews with key accounts, lost prospects, and churned customers to identify why revenue was won, lost, or at risk. The output is not a satisfaction score. It is a prioritized list of strategic actions tied to specific customer evidence: which product gaps cost the most revenue, which competitor is winning on what specific dimension, and which service failures are driving churn. The quarterly VOC package replaces internal assumptions with external evidence.

STRATEGIC DECISION INTELLIGENCE

Three Strategy Failures That Start with the Wrong Evidence Base

DIAGNOSIS 01 //
FRAMEWORK-FIRST CONSULTING
The Borrowed Playbook Problem
A management consultancy applies a growth framework from a different industry, populates it with secondary data, and delivers a recommendation that looks rigorous but has never been tested with the actual buyers. The strategy enters execution and fails because the competitive dynamics, channel economics, and buyer decision process in this specific market do not match the framework’s assumptions. Bain’s strategic recommendation and SIS’s primary research sometimes point in different directions. The difference is that SIS talked to the customers. The framework did not.
DIAGNOSIS 02 //
COMMERCIAL DUE DILIGENCE WITHOUT CUSTOMER VALIDATION
The Management Presentation Trap
The target company’s management team presents a compelling growth narrative with favorable customer retention data and pipeline projections. The acquirer’s financial model validates the revenue assumptions. Nobody interviews the target’s actual customers to verify whether they intend to renew, whether the competitor is gaining share, or whether the product roadmap matches what buyers want next. Post-acquisition, customer churn exceeds the model by 15-20% because the revenue assumptions were never validated externally. SIS conducts 15-25 confidential customer interviews per due diligence engagement to produce the evidence the financial model cannot.
DIAGNOSIS 03 //
MARKET SIZING FROM AGGREGATED DATABASES
The Secondary Data Confidence Trap
The board approved the expansion because the market sizing report from a syndicated data provider showed a large addressable market. The report aggregated government statistics, trade association data, and extrapolated survey results. Nobody verified those numbers with the buyers and distributors who actually operate in the market. SIS consistently finds 20-40% variance between published market sizes and primary-validated addressable demand when government tender volumes, captive channels, and regulatory access barriers are factored in. The difference between TAM and the portion you can actually win is the difference between a good investment and a write-down.
PRIMARY RESEARCH DELIVERABLES

What SIS Delivers to Strategy and Corporate Development Teams

01
Competitive Intelligence from Primary Sources

Named competitor profiles built from interviews with channel partners, shared customers, and former executives. Pricing architecture, go-to-market structure, product roadmap signals, and talent acquisition patterns. Sourced evidence, not SWOT matrices.

02
Commercial Due Diligence with Independent Customer Validation

15-25 confidential interviews with the target company’s customers, suppliers, and channel partners. Revenue sustainability, customer concentration risk, competitive position, and growth assumption validation. Delivered under NDA with no disclosure of the acquirer’s identity.

03
Primary-Validated Market Sizing and Demand Forecasting

Market size models built from buyer interviews, distributor volume estimates, and competitive share analysis. We verify published figures against actual purchase behavior and factor in access barriers, captive channels, and tender exclusions. The output is an addressable market number your board can underwrite.

04
Go-to-Market Strategy Informed by Buyer Research

GTM design based on interviews with prospective customers, channel partners, and trade buyers in the target market. Pricing model validation, channel readiness assessment, and positioning testing before launch commitment. The strategy is built on what the buyer said, not what the internal team assumed.

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