The battery recycling industry is a gold mine, just waiting for the right market conditions to happen. The technology for recycling is not as complex, and the entire battery industry is slowly coming to agreement that the best usage for used batteries would be to fully recycle the metal contents and materials of the battery rather than the alternative of ‘re-using’ the battery, which entailed the re-purposing of a high voltage battery into a 2nd life ESS, etc.

K-Food continues to grow in popularity across the world, and begins to become widely acknowledged as much as Japanese or Chinese food in select markets. Therefore, in order to accelerate GTM as much as possible, the project entailed to first figure out the most attractive markets to target first based on the client's food portfolio, and then assess the competitive landscape to develop an appropriate strategy to position its food in the market, especially in comparison with the local players, and also in regards to developing relevant partnership models with local retailers.

Battery swapping is a tricky business. Since motorcyle owners don’t really have a strong incentive to switch to electric model, there was a big reliance on the government subsidies to make the initial investment an attractive one, and the public needed to be educated on how switching to a electric model would do wonders in lowering the total cost of ownership (TCOE) for the owners in the long-run.

This was a project for leading F&B company aiming to expand their fast food and coffee chain operations in Southeast Asia. The scope of the project included a detailed analysis of the market, including consumer trends and an understanding of the competitive landscape, an entry strategy, and also a prospective business model, including the entire offerings that was suited to the market in question.

Conducting commercial due diligence for a Private Equity Firm aiming to acquire a growing company in the foods and sports nutrition industry. The scope of course included a detailed view into the market forecasts of each business unit, along with the local market dynamics, and capabilities analyses for the company in question. Moreover, the project was more heavily focused on the value-add creation strategy, requiring financial modeling on each value-add lever that we wanted to recommend for the short term exit plan

For our client, who is a global top 5 player in xEV Battery manufacturing, a very ‘hardcore’ benchmarking project. The level of detail required for the analysis was way too deep for a typical consulting project (but aren’t they all?). Because of the nascent nature of the industry, benchmarking in itself is obviously of great value in itself for the client, as they all know how rare information sharing is, and how directly verifiable that information would be were we to acquire it…

For our client, who is a global top 5 player in chemical plant engineering, we were asked to analyze the advanced technological trends in plant construction (EPC) and maintenance (O&M), to see which to adopt to gain a competitive advantage.

Submarine cable installations. It is quite an interesting field, as the pre-requisite for any company in this field to own a cable-laying vessel, and be involved in EPCI contracts for large constructions worldwide. Cables are generally separated into telecommunications cables and power cables, but the technology and required equipment to carry out the installations is quite different (albeit not greatly).

I've ended up finishing a project in the telecommunications industry, mostly about improving sales activity and internal processes utilized to analyze the profitability of their businesses. Making a change in sales activities always involves understanding the market, segmenting your customers, and setting goals on an enterprise level to stimulate activity and cooperation across all functions in the organization.