Consulting

eTForecasts can do a variety of consulting projects — ranging from custom market forecasts and new product opportunity assessments to technology forecasting and finding and analyzing market data. 

• Developed customized market analysis and forecast for Internet broadband potential in the U.S. and other selected countries.
• Overview and explanation of the Internet industry: its structure, its technology, the business segments, trends and definitions of all the Internet hardware, software products and services (1 day seminar for Japanese clients).
• Assisted an international computer company in determining whether and how they should enter the U.S. PC market, and what the product should look like.
• Reviewed and recommended changes to the personal computer technology plan for a large Norwegian company.
• Assisted a small software company with its business, product planning, and distribution channel strategy.
• Assisted a major computer company to develop a business plan to enter the PC software business including product categories, product acquisition candidates and sales forecast.
• Developed Internet user statistics for over 50 countries to be used in the Internet Industry Almanac. Extracts of this data have been reprinted by numerous computer and business publications, BusinessWeek, Forbes ASAP and Yahoo Internet Life!
• Developed computers-in-use statistics for over 50 countries to be used the Computer Industry Almanac. Extracts of this data have been reprinted by numerous computer and business publications, USA Today, Forbes, Information Please Almanac and World Economic Forum/IMD's World Competitiveness Yearbook Updated yearly since 1988.
• Developed a U.S. PC and printer market analysis and forecast based on 13 different distribution channels. This forecast and report is sold by another market research company to most major PC and semiconductor companies. Updated twice per year since 1994.