[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 :: 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
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
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