[about] i2 Partners: strategy and venture development

i2 Partners is a boutique management consulting practice combining strategy and technology expertise. Drawing from our large-firm professional services experience, we kept what clients (and we) like about consulting, and endeavored to remove what clients (and we) don’t.

  • Seniors-only: Large-firm, partner-level experience. Since 1998, each one of us has brought an average of 20 years of technology, management consulting, financial, and line management experience directly to our clients – your critical issues are not delegated to juniors.

  • Better value: We substitute multiple decades of combined industry experience, and sharp industry and economic focus for large, expensive engagements staffed by preponderantly junior teams.

  • Independence: We are not sell-side analysts, we do not make recommendations to buy or sell securities, our advisory work is not the “front end” of a larger IT or business process restructuring practice.

  • Industry Expertise: We are specialists: we focus exclusively on internet infrastructure, including media and telecom. We combine in-depth technical and architectural knowledge with thorough understanding of industry economics and business models.

  • Decision focus: Insightful results for action, not study. Our assignments address critical, high-stakes decisions, spanning asset valuation, M&A, product development, marketing, business development, and competitive strategy.
 
Focus

focus :: internet infrastructure

  • Carriers: broadband, wireless, specialist networks (CDNs, peering fabrics, managed services), ISPs, cable MSOs
  • Network Equipment: IP, TDM, and cable infrastructure
  • Consumer Devices: broadband-related CPE, mobile devices
  • Software: carrier-related middleware and service creation platforms
  • Content: broadband- and mobile-related digital media
 
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services :: typical examples

  • competitive strategy: e.g. off-site strategy wargames
  • management support: e.g. build a business development or strategy team
  • economic analysis: e.g. product strategy business case
  • technology strategy: e.g. assess economics of competitor infrastructure and technical architecture
  • retained advisory services: e.g. on-going support for deal analysis
  • due diligence: e.g. detailed evaluation of business plans and operations
 
Global

scope :: global

Experience in multiple regions enables insights into business models, technologies, and strategies which no single geographic market provides:

  • US: highly-competitive transport and managed-services carrier markets
  • Canada: VDSL and bellwether integrated voice/broadband offers
  • Europe: advanced services deployment integrating GSM cellular and wireline/ISP offers
  • Latin America: leap-frogging technology deployment in recently deregulated markets
  • Israel: advanced product development for IP-based communications