Why User-Generated Content Marketing is so Effective for Businesses? User-generated content has become one of the dominant players in the marketing world because of its successful result. A study says that UGC influences consumers’ buying decisions more than promotional emails and search engine results. Customers do not trust marketers; they…

Former advisers to Gazprom, Vodafone and the World Bank, Quentin Anderson and Dr Peter Stanbury look at the investment implications of Covid -19 ,through their perspective as Political Economists, and devise a three step investment process. Introduction A recent article by members of the Private Equity practice at Bain Consulting published…

Former advisers to Syngenta and the World Bank, Quentin Anderson and Dr Peter Stanbury look at the environmental implications of Covid -19 for the Globe. It is rare that a mathematical theory makes it into the awareness of the general public. One exception, a number of years ago, was Chaos…

The opportunity As a healthcare crisis Covid-19 is unprecedented in its global sweep and impact. As an economic event it presents us with a huge raft of what Donald Rumsfeld once called ‘unknown unknowns’, as questions are raised about everything from future consumer behaviours to the viability of international supply…

Covid-19 has changed the world. What is has also changed is how investors need to approach valuations of potential investments. Dr Peter Stanbury and Quentin Anderson examine how the investment world has changed. Introduction A recent article by members of the Private Equity Practice at Bain Consulting published an assessment of…

As the globe and their economies continue in lockdown how will businesses large and small have to adapt? The combination of scalable and agile capabilities is what will define all businesses going forward. Businesses that use cloud are already surviving better than those who don’t through the pandemic crisis. Artificial…

Last week, we at DVC Consultants published a paper which looked at the Covid-19 Pandemic through the scope of the Rumsfeldian Knowledge Matrix to predict the global economic, socio-political, scientific and technological impacts of the virus. We at DVC, have been helping clients with what then-US Secretary of Defense, Donald…

Applying the Rumsfeldian Knowledge Matrix to predict the economic, socio-political, scientific and technological impacts of the Coronavirus. When asked what sort of thing was most likely to blow governments off course, Harold MacMillan, then British Prime Minister famously replied, “events, dear boy, events”. This line is particularly apposite as governments around the world face the Pandemic, Covid -19.

DVC Consultants: Exploring unknown unknowns since 1995 Although the-then US Secretary of Defense was mocked at the time for his comments, we believe that he was quite right to observe that ‘There are known knowns; … We also know there are known unknowns; … But there are also unknown unknowns…