For Entrepreneurs


Research & Advice

ClearSkyAdvisor’s continuous research coverage is focused on the strategic issues for senior executives and decision makers in the renewable energy space.  Our current research focus is:

  • Market entry and launch strategies
  • Business model and business strategy evaluation
  • Policy and regulation
  • Strategic marketing communication
  • Best Practices in Marketing: Case studies of successful initiatives

We offer our clients the value of up-to-date research and thought leadership from a fast changing industry. Our research is complemented by ongoing personalized advice from our advisory staff.

You can access our research and advice through one or more of the following services:

Start-up Market Access Service:

We built this service around the idea that every entrepreneur requires world-class information but is likely working on a limited schedule and with limited resources.  You don’t have the army of people working for you that an executive of a larger organization might have – but you could sure use one. We provide expert advice, second opinions, and thought-leadership for a small fraction of what it would cost to hire even one additional person to help you out.  We offer:

  • Benchmarking and Best Practices: Compare your organization to the competition through quantitative comparisons.
  • Research Briefs: Pointed research on key topics
  • Executive Briefings – Q&A with our experts on an agenda chosen by you and prepared by us.
  • Relevant Highlights from our research in:
    • Marketing/Product Launch
    • Strategy
    • Policy
    • Technology
    • Finance

For more information on our Start-up Market Access Service, click here.

Custom Services:

ClearSky Advisors will also provide custom advisory services either on a project basis or as part of an Executive or Intelligence Service.  Our founders have a wealth of strategic and tactical consulting experience.  Furthermore, we have developed a network of advisors that allow us to complete projects regarless of how complex or simple they might be.

Please contact us for more details about our research coverage and information about how you can become a research customer.

Workshops: Sometimes you just need a trusted outside voice to help guide you or your team through complex tasks in a short period of time.  Whether your needs are strategic or tactical, we have workshops designed to set the course and get your team moving ahead with urgency.

Our workshops are developed to help our clients develop winning plans and strategies related to their market approach by integrating the latest market data with solid strategy and marketing frameworks. The workshops are conducted either on a one-to-one basis or on a team basis.

By designing each workshop to address a very specific issue, we can offer workshops that are highly effective in creating a new strategy. The workshops are a cost-effective way for a leadership team to form a coherent new direction for their company.

  • Business Model Design
    • This workshop leverages cutting edge research on business model design to create a layer of business logic that allows for rapid growth.
    • By addressing key operational and functional issues in order to build a roadmap to a profitable, scalable and market specific business model.
  • Market Strategy
    • The Market Strategy Workshop addresses all key decisions that are required to execute on a unique, focused and effective market strategy. Our Market Strategy Framework goes beyond the traditional thinking of the 4P’s but still allows for rapid design and implementation.
    • Utilizing strategy concepts that are particular to the technology driven businesses and valid for the solar industry, the workshop yields proven results in fast changing industries.
  • Value Triangle Design
    • A proprietary framework that helps create the cornerstone for your market strategy. A short workshop, the idea is to develop a solid value proposition by overlaying key market data with the core capabilities of your business.
    • The outcome of the workshop is a set of decisions that will set you on course for a focused, solid and effective market approach, with organizational buy-in and speed of execution as the primary benefit.
  • Strategic MarCom:
    • The MarCom workshop is focused on developing the core tools that allows you to achieve the desired positioning; audience, messaging, tools & media.
    • The workshop is based on deep understanding of the dynamics of technology markets and how to utilize new and old media cost effectively.
  • Tactical Execution:
    • The tactical execution workshop is meant for situations where your end-goal is well understood, but the specific steps to achieving those goals have not been identified. 
    • The workshop is a mediated step-by-step process for laying out

Please contact us for more information about our workshops and how we can work with you.

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