Consulting

Consulting on Enterprise AI and Networking

CIR offers customized consulting for clients with market analysis and forecasting needs that go beyond syndicated reports.  We offer clients a full range of services and project scopes that address markets, technologies, products and patents with the areas of Enterprise AI and Optical Networking.  We can provide clients with effective guidance in the most user friendly and actionable formats possible.

Customized forecasting

CIR has been providing market and technology forecasts to leading companies around the globe for more than 35 years.  We undertake various kinds of forecasts ranging expert forecasts based on market knowledge and understanding of market development to forecasts using sophisticated statistical techniques such as Monte Carlo.

We can deliver forecasts broken out by technology, product type, TAM/SAM, country specific, and distribution/marketing channel.  CIR offers insightful forecasts and related analysis for any market or market segment.

New product introduction

In addition to providing market forecasts to clients, CIR also assists clients launch new products. Through targeted end-user interviews to help better understand what features, performance, functions, bells and whistles impress OEMs, data center managers, etc.  CIR has extensive experience of building panels of insiders that provide us with feedback on what their requirements are for AI and networking products and services.

And we also carry out comparative studies of marketing and design strategies that are being used in emerging technology businesses.

Technology scouting and roadmapping

CIR helps clients identify the latest technologies, materials and production approaches through our ongoing reviews of the work at leading universities and research institutes around the world.

Our extensive experience with technology development enables us to provide detailed roadmaps for new networking and enterprise AI technologies. We also provide revenue scenarios for these technologies and insight into which startups we expect to be commercially successful in these new areas, as well as an assessment of the challenges that the latest technologies need to overcome.

Competitive analysis and company assessments

CIR provide competitive analysis for a variety of situations.  For example:

• CIR has helped clients understand how competitors’ product/market strategies impact our client’s business and what opportunities and challenges this presents.
• Clients have asked us to provide in-depth profiles of potential acquisition candidates along with an assessment of their strengths and weaknesses in the optical component and subsystems markets.
• We have also been asked to provide internal analyses so our clients can better understand their strengths and weaknesses and effectively evolve their product portfolios, market messaging or competitive positioning.

CIR has considerable experience with presenting senior level management with findings they can act upon.

Support for presentations

CIR has considerable experience with presenting senior level management and investors with findings they can act upon. We are experts on building convincing presentations and business plans that include our assessments and forecasts of markets, as well as messaging that is focused on the issues that concern venture capitalists and senior managers