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Key Industries
SRIC-BI's clients represent a wide range of industrial sectors. Recent activity has centered on the following areas. Examples of case studies and recent project activity are on the Web page for each topic.
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SRIC-BI's experts in the digital domain work with leading electronics manufacturers to identify and plan for next-generation products and services. SRIC-BI also draws on the extensive technical resources of SRI International, as necessary. The assignments often involve:
 Assessing technology portfolios
Identifying and evaluating new product and service opportunities
Assessing new technology and emerging markets
Developing business strategies
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| Digital Futures |
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To succeed in the digital domain, you need more than know-how; you must know why. Why do some customers adopt camera phones, home networks, and hard-disk video recorders, whereas others do not? SRIC-BI provides insight about why people buy the digital technologies they buy. By identifying opportunities and strategies and providing market intelligence for companies in the digital domain, we help businesses that supply digital content, networks, and devices understand how their customers and competitors will respond to new products and services now in development.
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| Oil, Gas, and Energy |
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SRIC-BI supports oil, gas, and energy companies as they develop and implement technology and strategy recommendations and has worked for all the major natural-gas and oil companies. A key component of our support is to align the corporate, business-unit, and technology objectives and activities. We have a thorough understanding of how energy companies plan and execute strategy and have our own strategy framework for analyzing and designing process activities.
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| Chemicals and Materials |
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SRIC-BI has a long consulting history of serving the management, technical, and business needs of chemicals, materials, and related industries. An important SRIC-BI strength is our ability to combine the insight of senior strategy-consulting professionals with specific industry and market domain knowledge when delivering the work. SRIC-BI has firsthand worldwide knowledge of the chemicals, petrochemicals, industrial polymers, inorganic materials (including minerals), food additives, advanced-materials, and fabricated-products industries. We have been providing our objective perspectives on changing business and technology landscapes for decades. We continuously monitor and scan a wide range of issues affecting both emerging and mature industries, and we advise clients about emerging opportunities and threats.
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| Telecommunications |
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Nowhere is uncertainty more acute than in the communications industry, where SRIC-BI has used its substantive technical knowledge, market understanding, and long-standing experience in scenario planning and future visioning to establish itself as a thought leader and source of technology, product, and service strategies. SRIC-BI combines deep domain expertise in wireless communications and telecommunications via its Explorer service with experienced consultants to provide superior analysis and insight.
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| Financial Services |
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Banks, brokerages, insurance companies, and many other types of companies operate in a constantly changing industry. Financial-services companies will need to continue to evolve as well as decide how and where they will sell their products and services, what relationships they should have, and what customers they should chase. How well an organization anticipates and leverages the coming changes will in large part determine its opportunities, options, and results. For more than 20 years in the industry, SRIC-BI has helped clients develop the needed data, capabilities, and strategy to be decisive in the face of uncertainty.
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| Auto |
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Automotive-industry companies need to improve significantly their abilities to make sense of the unprecedented changes ongoing in business practices, information and communications technology, the emerging growth economy, globalization, and shifting market needs and to identify new threats and opportunities. To assist them, SRIC-BI acts as the corporate radar on emerging technology and market issues and provides nonhype insight about key strategic challenges.
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Relevant Research Programs
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