Practical economics

Making the world predictable to enable you to make better business decisions.

In today’s uncertain world, you need the right specialist expertise to improve your planning and forecasting to make better business decisions and grow your business.

We work across regulated utilities and the commercial and public sectors, providing unique solutions to complex problems to give you a strategic view of the future from a holistic perspective.

Our approach

Our diverse experience across many markets allows us to see things with multiple lenses to provide the right solution for your needs.

We can:

Take your unique data and overlay it with external datasets to develop independent research
Deliver technical reports
Present board, event, or media presentations
Provide data visualisations
Create statistical models or training programmes to help you to be better prepared for change

We understand the external drivers of change and have a deep knowledge of regulatory frameworks and legislation to know how to respond efficiently and intelligently.

Combining our economics expertise with our other in-house specialists (asset managers, cost professionals, engineers, and environmental scientists) ensures the advice we give is holistic.

We integrate strategic ESG knowledge and a six-capitals approach to ensure our advice reflects the critical need to decarbonise and adapt to the climate emergency.

Where we help

Insights

Strategic cost intelligence: taking the risk out of your investment programme with construction inflation forecasting, programme cost, and strategy.
Macroeconomic services: helping you make better long-term strategic decisions by identifying trends and risks, forecasting the macro environment, and embedding your ESG objectives.

Performance improvement

Assurance: assess full-spectrum benefits and external risks and impacts through economic frameworks.
Strategic & M&A advice: gain the best advice for your growth strategy with market and company assessments, valuation, and forecasts.

Business case development

Enhanced asset management: enhancing your decision-making framework, carrying out cost-benefit analysis, and optimising your investment portfolio.
Regulatory economics: expert advice on the framework for companies in regulated markets, from efficiency benchmarking and financeability to charging and level playing field advice.