Services and Approach

Management Advice: We pride ourselves in providing uncomplicated and jargon-free business, management, marketing and communications advice to a range of organizations.

Results-Driven Strategies: We’re committed to delivering real-world results for our clients. This may involve arming them with the right strategies and tools scaled to their budget, providing pragmatic counsel to capitalize on market opportunities or conducting business reviews with an eye to optimizing marketing strategies and operations.

Actionable Plans: Whatever the assignment, Merrill Fullerton Consulting strives to deliver digestible and actionable management plans for its clients. We believe it’s important that all members of our client’s team understand our insights and advice, which is why we strive to ensure all communications are clear, concise and impactful.

Services

Business Planning

  • Sales and profit forecasting

  • Business case development

  • ROI and ROO analysis

  • Agency and vendor performance management practices

Market Strategy

  • Brand positioning

  • Narrative and message development

  • Best practices implementation

  • Communication channel planning

Portfolio Planning

  • Customer segmentation design and analysis

  • Category optimization

  • Product lifecycle management

Innovation

  • Customer analysis and profiling

  • Workshop facilitation

  • Prototype development

  • Customer journey mapping

Operational Improvement

  • Process improvement/development

  • Organizational design

  • KPI, benchmark and dashboard design

Approach

Merrill Fullerton Consulting is equipped to apply a range of methodologies and tools tailored to the needs and scope of the assignment. This may include customer-facing initiatives such as stakeholder interviews, or innovative techniques with internal audiences such as journey and perceptual mapping.

In general, our favoured approach is to ground ourselves in the client’s business, starting with a series of discovery sessions. The key phases to most engagements follow our Discovery-Ideation-Validation-Implementation framework (DIVI):