Delphi Group and OMNI Consulting Group Collaborate on Business Foresight Services; New Services are a Catalyst for Understanding the Future

Business Wire, Jan 9, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2003

Delphi Group is pooling its expertise in managing information in digital business practice with OMNI Consulting Group's expertise in economic intelligence, developing a new consulting venture called Business Foresight Services. "The focus of Business Foresight Services is the application of decision sciences for predictive execution of future strategy," explains Frank J. Bernhard, technology economist and a managing principal of OMNI Consulting Group.

"Today's marketplace is churning with activities that require sophisticated business planning acumen," Bernhard observes. "Whether it is planning for divestiture of technology assets, a due diligence for an M&A, or a validation for a strategic decision, organizations are looking for empirical tools that enable them to meet specific knowledge objectives with pinpoint accuracy."

Business Foresight Services offer a prescribed package of deliverables and empirical applications that help enterprises develop the knowledge agility to see beyond technology and plan for a targeted business outcome. Using quantitative discovery, sophisticated research methodologies, and predictive modeling, Business Foresight Services practitioners filter the noise that disrupts clear decision making.

"The impact is clear. Good answers take more than simple modeling," explains Carl Frappaolo, Delphi Group executive vice president and consulting practice leader. "We start with a sophisticated inventory of critical goal functions and then apply our proprietary stochastic modeling tools. The result is an impressive score of possibilities to solve for the unknown. Our clients get scenario-based planning tools, economic appraisal, market sensitivity models, research instruments, and an educational session with the executive team. Business Foresight Services are a comprehensive exercise in self evaluation and decision engineering."

What Decision Will You Make?

During the launch of Business Foresight Services, Delphi Group is scheduling complementary consultations with the executive teams of qualified organizations. Visit http://www.delphigroup.com/consulting/methodology/foresight.htm or contact Delphi Client Services at (617) 247-1025 or 800- 575-3367 for available schedules.

About Delphi Group

Delphi Group (www.delphigroup.com) is the leading provider of business advisory services that illuminate the value proposition of technology in digital business practice. Delphi Group's market advisory services, consulting, research, and community-building educational events worldwide have assisted more than 20,000 business and technology-focused professionals in the Global 2000. Contact Delphi Client Services at (617) 247-1025 or 800- 575-3367 with questions.

About OMNI Consulting Group LLP

OMNI Consulting Group, LLP, is the premiere source for empirical knowledge behind today's fast moving technology marketplace. With an impressive global network of economists and research practitioners, the firm serves many of the world's largest technology organizations and offers and unbiased approach of quantitative standards to address client-focused initiatives. OMNI Consulting Group fosters the understanding of market dynamics through an application of econometric solutions in a wide array of advisory and management research functions. Practice units within the firm concentrate on merger and acquisition support, technology audit and assurance, and intellectual asset management. Discover the insight of technology economics by visiting www.omniconsultinggroup.com.

For additional commentary:

To speak to Carl Frappaolo, call 617-247-1511 or email cf@delphigroup.com.

To speak to Frank Bernhard, call 530-758-8522 or email fbernhard@ocg-us.com