Specialty consulting services.
One of the most resourceful strategy consulting companies in the UAE.
The Seven Wise Men provides secondary business consulting services essential for crafting impactful business, marketing, and brand development strategies.
Beyond our expertise in core business and marketing strategic consulting, we provide prompt and efficient guidance on micro issues such as:
Trusted by top companies.
Media appearances and Awards.
- CNBC Arabia TV interviews
- Dubai Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) and Reed Exhibitions (U.K.)
- Media interviews
Service range.
Take guessing and randomness out of naming a new company, or when re-branding an existing one.
We audit your sales forecasts to ensure the most accurate and realistic measurement of market size and market share.
Site selection is a combination of science and art: location, location, location.
Create new ways to deliver value to buyers at an affordable cost.
Improve your company’s different activities and workflows to seize opportunities at every single point.
Avoid and contain risks by being clear-eyed about what needs to be done and by gaining resilience to get over crisis situations.
Naming a business.
For many different reasons, generating an attractive company name can be a nightmare for many.
A commercial name is the first thing a prospective client hears or sees. It is your first point of contact with prospects and must make an instant impact and be memorable.
Take guessing and randomness out of naming a new company, or when re-branding an existing one.
At The Seven Wise Men, we attach considerable attention, time and efforts to achieve that for many reasons:
At The Seven Wise Men, we attach considerable attention, time and efforts to achieve that for many reasons:
- A business and product name are key parts of corporate and product identities
- A name also plays a big part in labeling and packaging design, which are key success factors in merchandizing (and sales as a result)
- It can instantly communicate uniqueness and the reasons why prospects should buy from you
- A commercial name must be flexible enough to account for future brand and/or product extension and architecture and long-term growth
- It makes it possible for you to be first in the mind of buyers
- It affects how your brand and product are perceived in the market and by industry peers
- It allows you to own a single space in a buyer’s mind
Based on your company’s objectives and expectations, The Seven Wise Men engages an appropriate mix of tools (marketing, advertising and brand-building) to decide upon the right naming strategy. After that, your advertising and marketing people can take the new name and disseminate it.
Sales forecasts.
Business forecasting is no more accurate now than it was 15 years ago despite progress in research technology.
Progress in data collection and analytics, and processing technologies were supposed to boost accuracy, but this hasn’t happened.
Presently, most forecasting agencies prefer projections that underestimate volatility for many reasons:
- Innate dislike for uncertainty
- Tendency to underestimate volatility on purpose, especially for well-established businesses
- Innate inclination to toe-the-line and conform to competitors
- Inadequate understanding of qualitative factors
Let us audit, in all confidentiality, your business forecasts by using our proprietary methodology. Get some of the most accurate projections in these fields: market size, sales forecasts, costing budgets, marketing forecasts, demand planning, production budget, and risk simulation.
Our business forecasters view data within specific contexts as they have proprietary modelling tools to correlate events in “Cause/Effect” relationships that enable them to properly assess triggers, reactions and consequences. Our analysts:
- Pay attention to the underlying socio-cultural behaviors other than our own idiosyncrasies
- Pay attention to the underlying socio-cultural behaviors other than our own idiosyncrasies
- Organic and profound insights into people and markets’ behaviors, and proficiency in chain activity analyses
New location analysis.
Site selection is a combination of science and art. It is a process that requires investing considerable efforts, which very few are willing or capable of going through.
We know that the only way to justify making a very significant capital investment in a new location is to do this work diligently; and we have out tested and proven guidelines to choosing a winning location and avoid investing in a losing one.
New business model creation.
A business model, at heart, tells a story; a story that clarifies how an enterprise is supposed to work. A good business model answers key questions: A/ “Who is the customer”, and B/ “What does the customer value the most?”. But most of all, it answers C/ “How will we earn income from this company?”
A solid business model does so by deep diving into the inherent economic logic that shows the way how the business will deliver value to buyers at an affordable cost.
A viable business model finds a structured way to unlock value on the long-term and sets a more or less high entry barrier for potential new-comers and competitors.
A modern business model must do its best to account for new technologies, and how to incorporate one or more tech/digital trend at its core.
New value creation.
When a company’s different departments work as quasi-independent entities, goals get frequently misaligned, communications deteriorate, and bottlenecks take root. Coupled with high uncertainty-avoidance; resourcefulness and creativity are stifled.
The inability to see the whole, and, the part, to seize improvement opportunities at every point, eventually culminate in an overall feeling of underachievement and dissatisfaction.
At The Seven Wise Men, we assist our clients to fully-integrate their company to seize improvement opportunities, at every single point in the activity chain.
To us, and regardless of the sector a company is operating in, value creation means producing advanced and high-quality goods and services at the lowest possible costs. When creating *bespoke, genuine and permanent* new value, we have clear priorities on the top of our minds.
- What’s your concept?
- What desires and needs it addresses?
- Is it any better than the competition’s?
- How do you create it?
- Is the workflow well-integrated?
- How do you communicate it?
Risk prevention and containment.
When completing a project, obstacles suddenly pop-up out of the blue and from a multitude of expected and unexpected sources: supplier usually default on deliveries, contractors may fail to meet project specifications, liquidity often dries up, or health, environment and safety incidents can happen.
With limited resources at hand, and obligations to meet budgets, deadlines and quality standards, the whole team behind a project are put under pressure. Tempers often flare up and communications break down especially when a project is poorly planned and managed. Personality clashes and different management styles and practices can cause even key projects to go haywire.
The Seven Wise Men deploys its extensive experience in risk-avoidance and risk-assessment to help our clients become clear-eyed about what needs to be done to prevent and enhance their readiness and resilience to get over possible crisis situations.
We simulate the different risk levels (worst-case, best case and most probable case) and the resulting costs and damages, possible timing delays and potential realistic outcomes. Managing risks can become part of the project’s critical path and management cycle.
Reviews.
In a world of promises, we deliver actions and results.
Ask for your free proposal and consultation.
- Create catchy company and product names
- Get accurate sales and business projections
- Select the most appropriate location
- Create novel business models
- Develop new products and services
- Minimize uncertainty and risk exposure
