Address your critical business performance and technology investment challenges with the ARC Executive Insight Service. This executive-level service enables industrial companies to improve decision-making related to digital transformation, energy transition and sustainability, cybersecurity, and other dynamic market conditions. Via cadenced meetings and collaborative workshops, we’ll provide you with tailored, strategic advice and data specific to your company and interests, relevant peer introductions and executive gatherings, and agnostic vendor assessments. Additionally, you’ll gain exclusive access to our Pacesetter and Technology Archetype reports, with best practices data of peer leaders and in-depth technology solution-type comparisons. With ARC Executive Insight Service, you’ll continuously improve your ability to:
- Identify gaps and opportunities in your business performance compared to leaders in the market.
- Learn about emerging technology solutions and how effective they are for current and future market needs.
- Understand the maturity, cost, and complexity of the technology you are considering and how companies are using it to innovate at scale.
- Meet peers from other industrial companies and learn how they have succeeded with similar initiatives and innovation.
- Compare specific solutions and determine their applicability to your business and the markets you serve.
The Executive Insights Service is designed to provide strategic and practical support to a senior-level team within your organization. A team is typically made up of managers and senior contributors led by a VP or Director, often together with an executive sponsor. Dynamic by design, the service supports your priorities throughout the year as they evolve to support your business objectives and goals. ARC’s service framework supports ‘thinking through’ the possibilities of emerging technologies and trends, while considering implications and potential impacts across the key dimensions of people, process, platform, policies, and partners.
Service Framework
The ARC team works throughout the year to help you develop and refine your strategy and achieve your objectives. The Service Framework consists of a regular set of planning and strategy meetings, combined with a proven set of research and analysis techniques that ARC analysts can bring to bear.
Planning Strategy Cycle
ARC engages your team with a regular set of planning and strategy meetings.
Research and Analysis Techniques
The ARC team works with a proven set of research and analysis techniques that ARC analysts can bring to bear.
| Item | Description |
| Kickoff and Debriefing Meetings | Establish key needs and priorities, identify knowledge gaps, and understand the current state |
| Cadenced Planning Meetings | Together with ARC, select, review, and update goals and plan activities |
| Research Briefings | Analyst briefing about recent research |
| Consults | Analyst discussion on a topic |
| Research Sprints | Quick business validation survey project (up to two included in the service) |
| Educational Workshops | Analyst briefing to wider group (up to two included in the service) |
| Vendor Assessments | In a private meeting, get ARC's view about the relative strength and weaknesses of selected vendors (up to two included in the service) |
| Pacesetter Reports | Learn how the practices and performance of leaders compare to other technology users |
| Technology Archetype Reports | Discover the strengths and weaknesses of different solution types |
| Facilitated Peer Introduction | Through ARC, get an introduction to a peer who has "been there, done that" |
| ARC Industry Forums | One ticket for each team member |