ECS Partners Limited

ECS Partners Limited provides commercial consultancy services utilising the broad range of skills and capabilities available within the School. The unique way in which the School provides consulting has helped clients develop business improvements throughout their operations, from leading-edge research through to protecting their established business revenues from competitive actions. We work with a broad range of organisations, from the smallest enterprise to many of the FTSE 100 and global companies.

Examples of our recent engagements with clients:

• Marketing - a client wanted to vitalise their core offering and to represent it as a leading edge and exciting brand. The project provided a state of the art face recognition capability to demonstrate potential new product offerings to the client's customers.

• Corporate Strategy - developed a strategic intelligence capability to monitor information on the internet to understand the impacts on key business drivers.

• Time to market - provided technology transfer and new product prototype to product organisation for evaluation with client's customers to validate market potential for new offering.

• Revenue/Product protection - working with client's legal team to investigate potential patent infringements by third parties.

• Investment decisions - provided technical due diligence for business investment cases, verifying claims and giving independent assessment on issues such as novel process or product.

• Pre-competitive research - developed basic research for an industry consortium at a stage prior to competitive product development, helping to reduce consortium members research costs.
  

Contact: ecspartners@ecs.soton.ac.uk

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