Through the 1960s, the firm Frost & Sullivan pioneered market consulting, monitoring new technologies, tracking changes in distribution channels, forecasting market trends, and performing strategic analysis and market research of competitors. Frost & Sullivan was always at the forefront - just as new markets and technologies appeared - with up-to-date research on potential markets. Frost & Sullivan was the first company to offer its services on electronic tape media, delivering world military equipment market data in 1962.
In the 1970s, Frost & Sullivan established a European headquarters in London and developed the first pan-European growth consulting reports.
The company founded its Corporate Training division in 1972. Today it is one of Europe's premier corporate training centers. The training focuses on corporate management, leadership skills, sales and marketing, data communications, and information technology.
Frost & Sullivan's Events division was also launched in the 1970s. Frost & Sullivan Events are uniquely designed to integrate training, research, and strategic growth consulting skills with communication among the players in the industry. The events provide senior-level management executives with insights into market opportunities, competitive threats, technical trends, emerging markets, and competitive strategies. Frost & Sullivan continues to provide participants with unique strategic content, competitive benchmarking, industry focus, and the opportunity to network with other key industry executives. Our one-of-a-kind Executive Summit format leverages the mass of brainpower of all of our participants. Jam-packed with dynamic networking activities and hands-on content, our programs are over 80% interactive. Brainstorm with your peers and validate solutions to your personal needs and challenges through workshops, ThinkTanks, panels, roundtables, and mindshares.
In the 1980s, Frost & Sullivan developed the "Market Engineering" Consulting system and began working directly with clients struggling to address key industry challenges, opportunities, and problems. The "Market Engineering Research" system has proven to be very effective in addressing our clients' business challenges and has developed into a strong and thriving Frost & Sullivan consulting business.
In the 1990s, client demand supported Frost & Sullivan's expansion into Asia with research and consulting offices in Singapore, China, India, and Japan. Frost & Sullivan or its clients will not overlook the continuing economic growth and potential of these markets.
Frost & Sullivan also developed several worldwide "Customer Engineering Centers" in the early 1990s to fulfill our clients' requests for more customer surveys and analysis on new product launches and product development ideas. These centers have world-class survey instrument-development and analysis skills as well as covering virtually every language in the world. They play a major role in helping our clients become more "customer-focused".
The year 1998 witnessed the successful launch of a new division called Stratecast. This division delivers actionable, conclusive and insightful strategic analysis utilized by telecommunications industry senior executives in making critical business strategy, technology strategy and tactical strategy decisions. Stratecast offers a three part solution made up of: Access to its strategy staff; Access to the "fruits" of its sustaining research and analysis practice; and, Access to its incomparable strategic assessments of communications companies and technology sectors. Please visit www.stratecast.com for more information on the division.
The Decision Support Database (DSD) service was to provide clients with a comprehensive and standardized database of demographic data. This DSD service has become an invaluable business planning and forecasting tool for all the "Growth Partnership Services" clients. A DSD service is available for every industry which Frost & Sullivan supports.
In 2001 Frost & Sullivan successfully launched the Economic Research & Analytics (ERA) service that provides economic analysis and forecasting by industry rather than by country. Also, launched in 2001 was a program of comprehensive industry newsletters provided to our clients to keep them abreast of market trends and news. Growth Opportunity Newsletters are written by our global analyst and consulting team to provide value to each issue.
In March 2001, Frost & Sullivan acquired Technical Insights (TI) adding a superior technology research capability to its suite of services. Technical Insights offers several technology subscription services as well as high-end technology analysis reports. TI's mission is to provide intelligence to executives and technology managers worldwide on technical developments that seem poised for the fastest growth.
Expanding on Frost & Sullivan's success of our popular Analyst Briefings and Events, Frost & Sullivan's eBroadcast Division delivers cutting-edge business strategies and solutions to its executive clients through interactive forums on the Internet. By combining the immediacy of the Web with the impact of streaming audio and video, Frost & Sullivan's eBroadcasts are one-hour topic-specific seminars packed with the information and insights needed to address real-world business needs.
In 2004 we began a program of integrating all our research programs to better support out clients. In our new Growth Partnership Services (GPS) programs we now integrate all our research teams to fully support our clients in their decision making process. Our TEAM methodology provides a client with all the research sources they need to make optimal decisions in their growth strategy process. TEAM represents the 4 key elements of our global research team: T = Technology, E = Economics, A= Applications for Growth, M = Markets. These 4 market elements are crucial to support the successful development of a growth strategy.
In 2005 and again in 2006 the company was ranked #1 in the industry in terms of revenue growth, thus providing great credibility that Frost & Sullivan has what it takes to be a growth consultant for its clients. Frost & Sullivan has consistently out performed the average industry growth rates of the market research, corporate training, information and consulting industry.
In 2007 we plan to take major steps to provide clients with an overwhelming flow of innovative ideas, research and market strategy to support them in their own corporate growth objectives.
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