Ralph Finos, Ph.D. is an innovative IT industry market research consultant and practice leader who helps IT vendors create better products, understand their customers and prospects, and improve their market planning.
With 20+ years designing and executing strategic projects for IT vendors, he’s experienced in applying the right methodology and approach to solve your challenging market research problems. His style is to complement his industry knowledge and research know-how with hands-on management and continuous communication and collaboration with clients throughout the engagement. Dr. Finos has worked with all the IT industry leaders including IBM, HP, Sun, Intel, and Microsoft.
He focuses on issues affecting both commercial and technical data centers, but has consulting and research experience in many other IT industry markets and services. Recently, he's advised his clients on issues such as Virtualization, Linux, and Solutions; and forecasting rapidly-changing markets, leveraging his IT market experience, statistical knowledge, models of adjacent markets, original research, and expert opinion.
WHAT RALPH FINOS CONSULTING CAN DO FOR YOU
Through fact-based research and consulting engagements and his 20+ years of IT industry experience, Ralph Finos Consulting helps IT vendors gain market and customer insight. Dr. Finos can:
Provide expert Project and Engagement Management for complex Market Research and Consulting assignments.
Enable market and strategy planners to segment and forecast IT opportunities with more accuracy and insight. The Ralph Finos Consulting Worldwide IT Spending Forecast Model and the IT Value Migration Model are examples of his approach to creating data-based tools for prediction and explanation.
Assist you to uncover and measure key value points for your customers. Among the analytic approaches he uses is Diffusion of Innovation, a technology adoption framework for new product and market development.
Apply advanced statistical analysis to practical problems. A Ralph Finos Consulting analysis of Supreme Court decisions illustrates the approaches and techniques that are available to support your own market strategy decision-making.
Partner with IT Industry Analyst, Consulting, and Research firms to develop and grow successful practices.
Create Marketing materials such as White Papers and other collateral.
Inexact renderings of the known world in the 1500s successfully guided exploration, development, and investment in a period of remarkable economic expansion. Today, insightful market analysis constructs images of the future that guide innovation and strategy. Just like the coarse maps used during the Age of Exploration, timely maps of emerging opportunities have much higher value than precise renderings of known opportunities.
“Never mind the noise in the market. Pay attention to the price of the fish.” Bahamian saying