Insights

Field notes on industrial B2B in this region

What actually decides outcomes in MEA, the GCC and Türkiye. Written from operating experience rather than desk research, and specific enough to be wrong.

Partner strategy

Seven Questions to Ask Before You Appoint a Distributor

More regional strategies are destroyed by the wrong partner than by the wrong product, price and timing combined. Seven questions to ask before you sign, and what the answers actually tell you.

4 min read
Market entry

The Four Gates of Market Entry

Most market entry analysis asks whether a market is attractive. The question that decides it is whether you can win there, at an acceptable cost, before the window closes. Four gates, in order.

4 min read
Tendering

Why Industrial Suppliers Lose Tenders They Should Win

It is almost never the product. Four structural reasons that bids are lost before they are submitted, and what each one implies for how you should be working eighteen months earlier.

3 min read
Market intelligence

Installed Base Is Better Intelligence Than Market Share

Market share is a rear-view mirror. An installed base map with an age profile is a forward calendar of opportunities, and in capital equipment it is more knowable than most teams assume.

3 min read
Business intelligence

Before You Buy Another BI Tool, Run This Readiness Check

Most dashboard projects fail for reasons no software can fix. A seven-point organisational readiness check, scored, with a clear recommendation at each level.

3 min read
Research standards

If a Market Study Cannot Be Wrong, It Is Not Intelligence

Three tests to apply to any piece of market intelligence, including your own, and why accountability is the point rather than the risk.

3 min read

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