Gerar & Shebah’s expert market analysis in commodities and strategic management helps clients assess the strengths and weaknesses of current and potential competitors. Our analysis assists our clients in both an offensive and defensive strategic context to identify opportunities and threats. Analytical profiling techniques are used to combine all of the relevant sources of competitor analysis into one framework in the support of efficient and effective strategy formulation, implementation, monitoring and adjustment.
If you want to maximize your probability of success, then competitor analysis must be an essential component of your business strategy. The failure of many commodities trading ventures can be linked back to failure to conduct this type of analysis systematically and comprehensively. Rather, many novices operate on what we call informal impressions, conjectures, and intuition gained through the tidbits of information about competitors every manager continually receives. Unfortunately, a lack of in-depth competitor analysis almost always leads to high risk and dangerous competitive blind spots.
Our cost modeling experts can help you generate mathematical algorithms and equations used to closely estimate the costs of your project or product plans. It’s highly recommended that you perform comprehensive cost modeling before you proceed into any commodities trading venture. Utilizing business plans, budgets and other financial planning and tracing mechanisms to maximize your chances of success and sustainability.