We offer a wide variety of services to enable businesses and organisations to optimise their operations, refine their strategy and understand the global big picture.
Our strategic advisory role combines all of our individual services according to an organisation’s needs, and additionally utilises specialist functions performed by our global security partner Scholae and our boutique M&A partner Fusion.
We also offer individual services or bespoke combinations of them according to your organisation’s needs, and we work with your organisation from the outset to establish its strategic vulnerabilities and priorities. All of our strategic consultancy services are tailored to enable your organisation to mitigate risks, understand emerging trends and seize opportunities.
Our individual services are described below; you can read about our service model
here, and our consultancy process here.
Big Picture Insight’s founder created Fusion Mergers in 2002, a media, data, event, energy, and intelligence Mergers & Acquisitions firm who have completed in excess of 135 deals with a value of over $1.8 billion. This background combined with our ongoing work with Fusion puts us in an exceptionally strong position with regards to M&A, and our deep understanding of and years of experience in the field inform all our broader strategic consultancy services. Furthermore, our strategic insight and reporting on macro factors gives us an edge in terms of market timing and analysis rarely found in the M&A field.
We often work with clients years in advance to ensure that a company’s strategic planning and organisation are fine-tuned to effectively respond to an M&A opportunity at short notice or in the longer term. Working with BPI on an ongoing basis gives you an invaluable market based external perspective, so your business steers the right course to be attractive to acquirers and aligns its business strategy with maximising both sales potential and exit values.
We offer Business Valuation services that go deeper than the norm, informed by our strategic analysis of wider macro and security factors. By taking the usual Business Valuation metrics and additionally applying our insights into global affairs, we add an additional level of information on the opportunities and threats to the business being valued. We are also able to assess a business’ adaptability and resilience to possible shocks and Black Swan Events, enabling us to provide a more informed valuation than the norm.
Furthermore, we perform Competitor Analysis to equip shareholders with a deeper understanding of not only their own company’s relative value, but also of its position in the wider marketplace and the position of its competitors. This in-depth analysis of your competition is an invaluable asset for strategic decision making, and ties together the integrated and expansive nature of our Business Valuations with our broader strategic consultancy services.
Digitisation, an increasingly multipolar and unstable geopolitical situation, major economic disruption, environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) concerns, and shifting supply chains and consumer behaviour present unprecedented challenges to current business models.
Business Model Transformation (BMT) describes the process of fundamentally altering the way an organisation operates, in order to improve its resilience to unforeseen shocks, increase its adaptiveness to changing market conditions, and improve its competitiveness and performance. Furthermore, it is a process that all enduring businesses and organisations will have to go through sooner or later.
We carry out detailed Business Strategy Reviews (BSRs) of organisations’ business models, and our use of the Qunituple Helix Model as a framework for interdisciplinary analysis of economic and social development and interactions enables deeper insight into how organisations create value and deliver services to their customers.
All business models require innovation and adaptation in order to thrive in a rapidly evolving world. Our insight into global security, experienced business network, and M&A skillsets enable a big picture understanding of risks, opportunities, and emerging trends in the current climate, enabling organisations and businesses to incorporate geopolitical, macroeconomic, and (ESG) considerations and strategies into their business model.
In an era of increasingly uncertainty and systemic change, company boards benefit from diversity of thought, experience and perspective more than ever.
Big Picture Insight (BPI), working with our partners Fusion and Scholae, has access to a network of senior executives and analysts. They offer invaluable experience and knowledge to bring a breadth and depth of perspective that boards require in choosing optimal strategies.
Furthermore, BPI work with the board and those appointed to provide ongoing strategic insight into relevant sectors, areas of concern and the big picture geopolitical and macroeconomic situation. Rapid access to BPI’s network of analysts and experts enables boards to gain rapid comprehension of and form timely responses to systemic shocks and geopolitical threats, notably and recently demonstrated by the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, as they develop.
Our consultants and analysts’ broader network extends to academics and practitioners in numerous fields, allowing us to carry out detailed research and case studies on behalf of clients and working with our partners Fusion and Scholae where necessary for enhanced specialist capabilities in the M&A and global risk fields respectively. Furthermore, our senior team’s experience in running businesses and in the M&A processes around both expansion and selling companies enables us to deliver research and case studies that focus on our clients’ requirements in a highly relevant and bespoke manner.
Our research and case studies are generally delivered in a report format, and range from research into relevant strategic factors through to highly specific case studies on market and regional issues. Our close work with Scholae means that we are particularly adept at incorporating global security and emerging trend factors into our research and case studies, and adhere to the key principle espoused by our mission statement, namely to provide a ‘big picture’ understanding of strategic risks, trends and opportunities at the national through to global level.
As a strategic consultancy, our strategic advisory role combines all or some of our individual services according to an organisation’s needs, and additionally utilises specialist functions performed by our global security partner Scholae and our boutique M&A partner Fusion. We perform a three-step process, initially assessing, then advising, and finally optimising your business. You can read more about this process here. We also offer individual services or bespoke combinations of them according to an organisation’s specific requirements.
Our service model is thus centred around our Primary Service – a complete strategic consultancy service – and from that service all of our specialised Component Services derive, namely: Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A); Global Risk & Geostrategic Outlook; Company Valuation; Economic Outlook & Macroeconomic Strategy; Business Model Transformation (BMT); Regional, Global & Sector Expansion; Board Level Representation; and Research & Case Studies. Our partners Scholae and Fusion provide first-order input into our primary strategic consultancy service from their respective areas of expertise. In addition, Scholae provides first-order input into our Global Risk & Geostrategic Outlook component service and second-order input into our Economic Outlook & Macroeconomic Strategy, Regional, Global & Sector Expansion, and Research & Case Studies component services. Similarly, Fusion provides first-order input into our Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) component service and second-order input into our Company Valuation, Business Model Transformation (BMT), and Board Level Representation component services.
Big Picture Insight gets ‘under the bonnet’ of your business to understand its robustness and its ability to achieve its mission statement.
We assess your business via Business Audit, Value Chain Analysis, KPIs, SWOT Analysis, and both Strategic and International Risk Analysis. Our partners Scholae and Fusion are additionally called in to assess areas relevant to their specialised skillsets.
With a full understanding of both how your business operates and how it fits into the ‘big picture’ in the wider world, we provide a detailed report of the strategic opportunities and threats to your business and our recommendations.
Our M&A experience allow us to provide advice that dovetails strategic decisions with maximising your company’s valuation and attractiveness in its marketplace.
We offer ongoing strategic advisory to support your business, tailored to your requirements.
This typically takes the form of ‘big picture’ reports and consultancy services relating to company valuation and M&A activity. Specialist reporting is also available via our global risk consultancy partner, Scholae. Timely updates on emerging opportunities and risks are provided as a matter of course.