MIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE
After the 50C day, the 37C+ at night.
Terrible Minimum Temperatures tonight:
37.4 Doha AP QATAR
36.7 Dayyer IRAN
Max. Temperatures again up to 50C in OMAN
Do you buy consulting subscription or bespoke studies?
Do you have a clear idea of whether the data in each is measured or modelled? Here's the low down from an insider expert...
Subscriptions by nature cannot contain proprietary information.
They are not like bespoke studies which often require confidential data to achieve the necessary depth.
Bespoke studies often require non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to be in place to set the conditions for how that data is used and shared. This is especially common for technical and commercial due-diligence studies and in projects involving lenders and capital raises.
There ought not be any confidential data crossover from bespoke to subscription.
This is actually a very pragmatic split. As a buyer of consulting for ongoing business planning - it isn't as important to have that deep dive or to pay for more than you need. It also reduces your burden on managing third party confidential data.
Subscriptions are (or should be) high-value products without confidential data. Their purpose historically has been weighted to inform rather than advise.
One problem is potential pressure from some subscription clients for deliverables to be heavier on insights and in the increasingly competitive consultancy space - boundaries can get pushed.
To protect integrity and maintain objectivity assumptions and, well-defined methodologies around any data synthesis and modelling need to be explicitly detailed.
If a consultancy states for example that their reports contain oil refining industry "asset-by-asset" and "real-world proprietary data" what do they actually mean by this?
Do they mean each site?
Each refinery unit?
Each catalyst layer?
Each stream from each unit?
Each utility and feedstock contract cost?
The margin achieved on every completed trade?
Every time a unit undergoes maintenance, efficiency and actual downtime?
Individual capital item cost (actuals)?
Every employee's salary and contractor's fee?
The answer is obviously not.
If I'm wrong then I strongly suggest clients check their contracts to see if the consultants have agreed to include the data in the deliverables for one, and as a minimum, to ask for clear evidence of its existence.
If the answer is in fact no - then any claim not to have data models or synthesised data is, putting it politely, nonsensical.
So what?
The real question here is not whether the data has been modelled. It is whether the model contains bias or selective criteria that would influence a particular outcome.
If so, the data - no matter how granular - carries that methodological bias with it.
Then we must address why there is a bias. Whose interest does it serve?
Is it you?
Or is it who provided the data?
Or is it who modelled the data?
Are you paying for someone else's success?
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