Our Insights

The philosophy of OC&C Strategy Consultants is to treat each problem as unique, providing truly customised solutions rather than generic packages for our clients.

This selection of OC&C's publications illustrates our ability to think creatively, generate new insights and provide a fresh perspective on established thinking.

In this section you can view and download our strategic "Insights"; short provocative pieces that we write as food for thought for our clients.

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Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Contactless coffee?

Interesting to see Costa Coffee's latest innovation aimed at driving a switch to reusable cups

Thursday, 15 November 2018

The imperatives for retail leaders trading through uncertain times

Although there is much uncertainty surrounding the UK macro-economy, it is clear that for the retail industry, the next year will see some of the toughest trading conditions for a decade

Monday, 12 November 2018

Digital innovation, where China's underdevelopment is an advantage

China's digital development has attracted global attention. Last week I joined a digital camp run by one of the leading global retailers in Shanghai to discuss the new retail brand, HEMA, launched by Alibaba

Monday, 12 November 2018

Telecoms channel – Ripe for disintermediation

The results of our recent (2018) nationwide customer survey on telecoms retail experience are in and they don’t look good… not if you’re a telecoms operator

Monday, 5 November 2018

AVs allow proposition reinvention, not just driver automation

As Henry Ford may have said: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses"

Monday, 29 October 2018

Alibaba's JV with YNAP: a short-cut to bridge their trust gaps with Chinese shoppers and with brands

In OC&C’s recent research on Chinese luxury online shoppers, we found that International platforms like YNAP and Farfetch scored among top 5 for overall satisfaction by Chinese users

Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Autonomous vehicles will clog our roads and line the pockets of maintenance and repair providers

Prepare for the mega traffic jam of the future. As cars become more and more available through on demand services we may see a tremendous rise in traffic. Up to 90% on some forecasts

Friday, 19 October 2018

The first rule of disruption

We've asked leading Retail sector disruptors how they see the evolution of the industry. They challenge the fundamental notion of disruption and set the wider retail industry 3 critical questions to answer

Friday, 12 October 2018

A new way to think about growth in China

One of the questions we're often asked when we develop China growth strategy is how to segment the market, in tiers of cities, clusters or regions. China is the size of a continent so one strategy for the whole of China is rarely relevant

Thursday, 4 October 2018

The new polyglots

How many languages do you speak? English? French? Maybe whatever you happen to remember from GCSE German? What about R? SQL? Python? Julia? Perl or Java?

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