The Skills Connection team has over 35 years of experience in the Research and Advisory business at leading companies like Gartner and TowerGroup. We offer a unique combination of insider knowledge and external perspective.
Research and Advisory firms benefit working with us in the following areas
Associate development
• Outsource associate development
• Reduce costs
• Improve the effectiveness of training programs
• Raise the skills of your analysts
Advisory business and sale
• Align research with market needs
• Increase sales effectiveness
• Identify market opportunities and threats
• Align research with market needs
• Increase sales effectiveness
• Identify market opportunities and threats
Examples of some projects
• Conducted win/loss analysis to help a leading advisory firm to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of their current portfolio and practices
• Developed and managed the associate development program for a global advisory services company resulting in client retention rates of over 80 percent
• Created a new client-centric research architecture for a specialist research boutique resulting in revenue growth of over 30 percent per year
• Trained research associates of a leading CIO-focused research firm on effective presentation creation and delivery, resulting in major quality improvement
The Skillet 