6BYTHREE DIGITAL LTD

Strategy Development Consulting - Market Research and Analysis

Consultants conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify growth opportunities, assess market trends, and evaluate competitive threats. This helps organisations make informed decisions about market entry, expansion, and diversification strategies.

Features

• Market Research and Analysis identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
• Stakeholder engagement to ensure buy-in and support for strategic initiatives
• Strategic planning to prepare for potential future challenges and opportunities
• Development of key performance indicators (KPIs) measuring progress and success
• Clear compelling vision statements created, guiding decision-making and inspire teams
• Identification of critical success factors and potential barriers to implementation
• Facilitating strategic workshops and brainstorming sessions to generate innovative ideas
• Development of detailed implementation plan with assigned responsibilities and timelines

Benefits

• Improved decision-making based on evidence and clarity of competitive landscape
• Increased organisational agility and responsiveness to changing market conditions
• Enhanced alignment and collaboration across departments and functions
• Greater clarity and focus on strategic priorities and key initiatives
• Improved resource allocation and investment decisions based on strategic objectives
• Increased employee engagement and motivation through shared purpose and direction
• Stronger competitive positioning and differentiation in the marketplace
• Improved financials and long-term sustainability through strategic growth and innovation
• Enhanced reputation and credibility among stakeholders, investors, and customers
• Increased resilience and adaptability to navigate future challenges and opportunities

£800 to £1,200 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at jon@6bythree.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

987343575077126

Contact

Jon Faulkner
07834 882 405
jon@6bythree.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: Our collaborative services play a pivotal role in the process of planning for change across data, digital, cultural, process and interfacing organisational capabilities.; ; We leverage our expertise to facilitate discussions, conduct research and analysis to provide strategic options and recommendations. ; We work closely with clients to delve into the nuances of their organisations, gaining insights into market trends, customer preferences, and emerging opportunities. Through comprehensive assessments and collaborative engagement, we help to distill complex challenges into actionable insights, laying the groundwork for informed decision-making.; ; Our collaborative approach fosters a dynamic exchange of ideas and perspectives, ensuring that diverse viewpoints are considered in shaping strategic initiatives. We act as catalysts for innovation, challenging conventional thinking and guiding clients towards innovative solutions that resonate with their audiences.; ; Our iterative approach to planning enables clients to adapt and evolve in response to changing market dynamics and user preferences. By continuously evaluating progress and refining strategies, organisations can stay ahead of the curve, delivering value that aligns with the evolving needs of their stakeholders.; ; We offer clear and structured frameworks for driving sustainable growth and fostering meaningful engagement with users, delivering great RoI, and ultimately enhancing the overall effectiveness and impact of strategic initiatives.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: Launch support is a key inclusion of our standard approach and it includes as necessary interaction with client internal teams, hosting providers and any other stakeholders that need to be involved. ; ; However, the reality is that we would have been collaborating with internal business, administrative and technical staff throughout as we research functional requirements, design and test the solution, then develop and test the component parts. Throughout the delivery of the project, the coaching and equipping for launch will be getting prepared, approaches discussed and issues mitigated.; ; The training and equipping will occur throughout the project duration, for all roles and through each stage of sharing insights and evolving solutions designs; ; Client stakeholder involvement with the solution design and development means they are inherently well placed to know the principles and thinking behind the solutions, as well as the workflows and codebase behind them. Our collaborative partnership through the implementation process brings huge familiarity and confidence in the solution and during the design and development process, we’ll identify gaps where we can assist in knowledge transfer and peer to peer training. ; ; Approaches we’ve used successfully before include group workshopping, individual training, ongoing mentorship, peer-to-peer pairing, and creating support videos.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: Whichever CMS and hosting options are selected, we will set up the CMS to optimise experience and performance of the new site. This will be undertaken near the beginning of the development phase and provide for Development, Staging and Production (public) environments, enabling us to progress through stages of development and testing independently before promoting the code base to the public “production” environment. ; ; During the Content Review phase, we will seek to appraise all of the content across the website and assess both in terms of suitability for audience needs, accessibility and brand representation, and consider how best to migrate any content which should be used on the new website. It is important for us together to fully understand the scale, complexity, specific integration or bespoke solution needs for the subsequent migration of content to the new website.; ; Following the review and planning activities we conducted earlier in the project, this phase will see us developing automated migration scripts, extracting content from the current CMS and aligning into appropriate content assets and pages in the new website. There will be an associated need for manual migration, corrections and revisions, and inclusion of new content created by the client team.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: Within each phase, our researched and tested insights will be shared for discussion and next steps agreed. UX testing results will be shared along with a sprint review demo to showcase newly-developed features.; ; Our iterative approach to QA occurs in sprints enables us to assure quality early and often, effectively avoiding costly mistakes and oversights further down the road. It also helps us respond and test last-minute changes requested as they emerge in-project. ; ; First, we collaboratively identify what “quality” means. And more importantly, what it means to your stakeholders. Based on the user experience research conducted in previous phases and internal user interviews, together we'll identify quality criteria that allows us to focus testing on areas that matter most.; ; We will perform user testing at key points throughout development to ensure that the UX of the CMS works well for your users at launch. By working with real users we can learn early and mitigate risk as we go. Ultimately, the earlier we catch any issues, the less costly it will be to resolve that issue. This process will have begun during the IA & Design phase, but will ultimately reach its largest point during the development of the site.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security incident management
  • Security audit services

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: There are no discernible constraints relating to these services, we will readily discuss any specific requirements arising and seek to accommodate where possible.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: A "response" means that the "contact" is answered by 6bythree and best endeavours will be brought to swiftly resolve the issue. ; ; In some cases, additional information may be needed in order to resolve the issue.; ; Response times vary depending on severity level of the issue ; ; During Business Hours (09:00 – 17:00 UK Time, Monday – Friday); ; P1 - Response <1 working hour / resolution <4;; P2 - Repsonse <4 working hours / resolution <8;; P4 - Repsonse <8 working hours / resolution <24; ; ; By default, there is no response outside of Business Hours, however these may be negotiated.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: Web chat
• Web chat support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support accessibility standard: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Web chat accessibility testing: N/A
• Support levels: 6bythree are happy to discuss and negotiate levels of support to provide required coverage for client critical and priority services. ; ; For full 24:7:365 we quote £7,500

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Staff screening not performed
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  6bythree have undertaken sustainability assessments in previous years and are found to be very low energy users overall as there are no office overheads, we infrequently use co-working space in shared office facilities each month, we undertake little travel, there are few team members and we are all using cloud based solutions and we provide only cloud based solutions also. There is little improvement we can make. We have, despite this, committed as an organisation to progress towards BCorp accreditation status during our next trading year, starting in July 2024. As we progress our work with clients we are ever mindful to identify ways of working ethically, seeking sustainable (in all cases of the word) solutions and ways of working and challenging our clients to do so similarly for the benefit of people, planet and reasonable profit. Sustainability is also one of our core values, shared on www.6bythree.com. We state - “we value and seek to nurture sustainable growth through all we do across social, economic, environmental, time and innovation - driving for evidence informed, value based and outcome driven work and partnerships. Our pursuit of BCorp accreditation will see follow this timeline: July 2024 - Undertake BCorp Impact Assessment (BIA) August - Sept - 2024 Appraise and plan to make adjustments we can make both as a company and in our personal lives Q4 2024 - Introduce and set up monitoring mechanisms to improve our BIA score. Q1 2025 - Adjust our governing documents and policies to fulfil the legal requirements of BCorp Q2 2025 - Attain a score of over 80% in the BIA and submit for review and verification of BCorp requirements, adjusting as needed to achieve certification. Q3 2025 onwards, appraise work we undertake to both improve our BCorp position and maintain annual certification.

  Covid-19 recovery

  Ongoing handling and management of Covid-19 means many different things to different people. We remain mindful of people with vulnerabilities, whether physical, emotional or social and seek to engage people and clients as they wish to collaborate, making all reasonable adjustments to ensure productive working and people's health and wellbeing supported.

  Tackling economic inequality

  As an organisation we donate 1% of our annual turnover to charities which align to our vision of “helping to improve education, employability and wellbeing worldwide”. We continually contribute to thought leadership relating to our vision of “helping to improve education, employability and wellbeing worldwide” and in recent months shared researched and evidence based insights and recommendations related to helping people of all backgrounds to develop employability skills. We pay well over the UK minimum wage and living wages to all of our people.

  Equal opportunity

  6bythree also provides ongoing support to a number of local volunteering programs, where we help them to promote wellbeing, equality and diversity. 6bthree Digital Ltd recognises that respect for the dignity and worth of everyone who works at 6bythree is the foundation of harmonious and productive working relationships. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal opportunities and prohibits discriminatory practices. 6bythree recognises that every person has the right to equal opportunity without discrimination in matters relating to employment or membership in 6bythree. Under no circumstances shall any person be treated in a discriminatory manner because of his or her race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, political belief, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation or age or because an applicant or candidate has been convicted of a criminal or a summary conviction offense unrelated to employment.

  Wellbeing

  As an organisation we donate 1% of our annual turnover to charities which align to our vision of “helping to improve education, employability and wellbeing worldwide”. Throughout our working relationships and in the work we deliver for others, we utilise data, user research, testing and collaboration to ensure solutions work well for all people, including those with needs. We contribute actively to thought leadership and sharing new research across all aspects of our vision - education, employability and wellbeing

Pricing

• Price: £800 to £1,200 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at jon@6bythree.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.