BSG Consulting Services
BSG offers custom analysis to clients on a wide range of topics pivotal to the successful development and deployment of a client's business, product and marketing initiatives.
Unique Credentials
BSG has unique credentials in the area of custom consulting.
Al Boschulte, Chairman of BSG, is one of the most distinguished and experienced experts in the wireless and mobile communications industry, having been CEO of Nynex Mobile, as well as a top executive in a number of other wireless and related companies. He also ran the fixed telecom network at Pacific Telesis.
His experience is unique in that he has run, worked with and advised an incredibly broad range of companies – service providers and equipment and applications vendors, entrenched industry giants and startups.
Victor Schnee, President of BSG, has, for over 20 years, provided vital advice for guiding leading telecom, wireless, digital media and IP companies in their decision-making. He co-founded and ran one of the first private investment funds devoted to digital media.
Types of Custom Projects
Among the types of projects they have successfully undertaken have been:
· The startup of a mobile wireless affiliate of a major wireless operator;
· Startup of digital content businesses;
· Business planning and funding of a mobile music and video platform business;
· Business planning and assessment of the business opportunities for broadband wireless access companies;
· Analysis of rural mobile markets and investment merits;
· Certain mobile equipment opportunities in base stations and related areas;
· Assessment of rural telco business opportunities;
· Restructuring of a tier two telco;
· Funding of a competitive access business.
Services Offered
A full range of advisory services will be offered, including (illustrative examples):
- Competitive strategy assessments
- Advisory engagements to management of operators, content and applications vendors, third-party suppliers
- Product evaluations
- Market sizing
- Business plan evaluation
- Funding evaluation
Proprietary Methodology
BSG employs its proprietary Business Case Development and Analysis Methodology in all aspects of its services. Its techniques have been proven capable of developing strategic analyses of the industry, that have repeatedly been correct in anticipating major turning points well in advance. Unlike other research firms that do not have the capability for analysis beyond immediate market observations, BSG uses market observations as a jumping off point to reach far more pervasive, far-reaching conclusions.
BSG’s methodology is rooted in thorough understanding of macro trends that will affect telecom, wireless, digital media and IP. Rather than focusing on economics for its own sake, BSG uses its familiarity with worldwide economic, geopolitical and technological development to create a solid framework for the analysis of what will shape the future of telecom, wireless, digital media and IP.
Its experts, using this methodology, have had an astonishing record of industry forecasting. BSG believes that to remain relevant and dynamic, research and advisory firms must constantly absorb new disciplines and reshape their tools to address changing times. The 21st Century offers such challenges in abundance. Virtually nothing in the 21st Century resembles the 20th Century as far as the interests of the telecom, wireless, digital media and IP industries are concerned.
These industries face a difficult challenge understanding the implications of the multiplicity of new forces dominating their marketplaces going forward. BSG offers all companies the opportunities through its programs to adjust their strategy course.
BSG’s specialized Custom Consulting allows a company to draw on the expertise of BSG’s senior executives, analysts and advisors and to craft a program that goes beyond the offerings of either syndicated packaged research or traditional consulting.
