What-If Analysis Tools
Starbird Consulting builds custom tools to help companies and investors explore:
Options on international expansion
New distribution channels and/or methods
Cash flow implications of customer financing options
Innovative investment vehicles such as Variable Payment Obligations (VPOs)
Unit-level profitability
Network-level profitability
Hub-and-spoke models of product/service delivery
Etc.
When we create a new instance of our award-winning tool with a new client, we start by thoroughly understanding the whole picture of their business and its component parts. We then customize a What-If Analysis Tool to dynamically relate the component parts to each other and advise clients on what their particular system is sensitive to. The client can adjust one of 10-100 variables and instantly see the results to his or her business.
We’ve had great results! There’s something very rewarding to seeing outcomes of decisions you might make - you really feel as if you're making the most informed choice for your business, rather than operating in the dark or trying to walk through competing scenarios in your head.
“The What-If Analysis tool developed by Starbird is superb. I have been a strategic coach to CEOs in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, so I am always looking for tools that accomplish a lot and are simple to use. My recent experience with the What-If Analysis turned out to be a great way to think through various strategic financial choices for the business, and then to have a good conversation about picking the right choices. I have not previously experienced such a simple-to-use tool that still raises the right financial choices to consider. It was especially useful that the CEO and I could do the analysis in real-time together, discuss the outcome of the strategy, and then go on to consider and compare other strategic options.”