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CyberMedia is a global consulting firm whose charter is to help executives ride the rapid evolution of I3, the Interactive Information Industry. Our primary product is the executive strategy journal, CyberMedia 2001: Insights, Opportunities &Imperatives for the Interactive Age, with analysis and recommendations on key I3 issues, technologies, infrastructures, products and services. Our other services and products include...
Strategic Planning & Positioning Seminars
We offer both standardized and fully-customized seminars ranging in length from 1/2 to 2.5-days. In these CyberVisions seminars, we help a small, cross-departmental group of key managers and executives to focus on:
- seeing & sharing a sharply defined set of Vision, Mission and Goals
- creating concise, cohesive and connected sets of Strategies
- blaze trails to specific strategies, products, positions and tactics.
You will develop the following key ingredients for success:
- a "big picture" vision of the industry, your company, the marketplace, your competitors and the customers
- pinpoint your role, position, direction & goals on the Interactive Industry Maps
- a "no holds barred" analysis of your
- "Crown Jewels" & Technology Timelines
- Core Competencies & Capabililities
- Innate Inadequacies & Cultural Clashes
- Competitive Assessment
- a concise, cohesive and connected set of strategies with specific product plans and market positionings and alliance prospects
Our CyberVisions seminar is very highly regarded...here are some typical quotes--
- "A turbocharged dose of interactive vision, strategy & tactics."--CEO, major PC peripherals mfr.
- "Our CEO spent 6 months and a million dollars with McKinsey...we got more answers and better insights in one day with you!"--Corp. R&D Lab Director, Top 3 consumer electronics firm
- "You've told me more in just the last 25 minutes than those other guys even know!"-- Sr. Project Mgr., industry institute/research consortium
After a free consultation to discuss your general directions you will receive a five page proposal with detailed session agenda customized to your specific needs.
Consulting Services & Retainers
I3, the Interactive Information Industry, is the result of the Digital Convergence. Complex, all-encompassing, and growing by the minute. Itís easy to get blind-sided on the "infobahn." Our "big-picture" view creates major "a-haís" while still focusing on practical, customer/user-based strategies. We provide expert insights to help clients understand the potential of these new markets, develop bold and proactive strategies, acquire new customers, better serve current customers, and position themselves to win in the digital, interactive future.
Typical consulting projects include new business development, technical due diligence, product planning, positioning strategies, alliance evaluation, competitive analysis and market entry strategies. Our custom research programs focus on users of interactivity.
But our work goes far beyond just research and project consulting. We identify and introduce you to appropriate resources, services, and business partners. And we update our clients continuously with trend information, competitive news, cost-savings, technology/regulatory impacts and upcoming market opportunities. Daily, project-based and retainer rates available.
Ongoing Market Research Programs
CyberMedia has developed with National Family Opinion the world's first quarterly, large-scale market research panel focused specifically on consumer needs, perceptions and intentions with regard to I3 products and services. Clients will be able to get reliable, projectable survey results in as little as six weeks on an ongoing basis. Study areas include:
- InterTrak: CD-ROM (started 1Q95)
- InterTrak: Online and the Internet (beginning 1Q96)
- NIKA Interactive Markets for Women (beginning 1Q96).
Industry Research
Currently our CYBEResearch reports include:
- Interactive TV Market Assessment: New Industry Directions 300pp, Aprí95
- Multimedia Publishing on the Internet, 100pp, Juní95
- Movies & Multimedia: The "Siliwood Convergence?, 100pp, Janí96
We also co-market The 1995 Interactive Multimedia Sourcebookwith over 2200 listings & overviews of contacts, companies and resources. 870 pp & Disk.
Please contact us for Tables of Contents and pricing.
CyberMedia's primary service is custom consulting focused on strategic planning, business development, competitor analysis and technology assessment. Our "CyberVision" executive workshop helps management teams develop cohesive visions, product plans, strategies and tactics that optimize upon their organization's core competencies and technologies while minimizing their innate inadequacies with key partnerships and alliances.
CyberMedia offers several information products including our flagship journal, CyberMedia 2001: Insights, Opportunities & Imperatives for the Interactive Age, a monthly missive on strategic
issues and an open, ongoing forum for key industry executives. Three CyberMedia Research Reports cover the Interactive Television Markets, Multimedia Publishing on the Internet and "Siliwood" Supremacy.
We also offer InterTrak, the world's first continuous, large-scale market research panel focused on consumer needs, perceptions and intentions with regard to
products and services. Clients can get reliable, projectable survey results in as little as six weeks. Specific InterTrak studies include:
- Multimedia CD-ROM
- Online Services and the Internet
- Women's Market for Interactive Products & Services.
Other products include market analysis reports, sourcebooks and directories and eventually, interactive, electronically distributed information products and services. Because
is continuously evolving, CMG intends to be a living example of the virtual "Information Age" corporation enabled by these new technologies. We respond quickly and flexibly to rapidly changing trends and customer needs.
Interactive Services, Publishing, Information, Communications & Entertainment
Silicon Valley * San Francisco * Hollywood * Chicago * Washington * New York * Boston * Toronto * Tokyo * Cyberspace
10410 San Fernando Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014-2833 Voice: 408/255-5007, Fax:: 5730, E-mail: CM2001@cybrmda.com
Announcing new information products to help you cope with three of the hottest areas in the interactive information industry:InterTrak CD-ROM Market Study
This is our new multi-client research program, developed in collaboration with NFO (National Family Opinion), one of the world's leading consumer research firms. The program's exclusive objective is to track the market for interactive CD-ROM-based software.Interactive Television Market Assessment [1995 Edition]
The study begins in Q1 ë95 capturing Q4 ë94 activity. It will provide the most current and reliable data available on the fast-growing, highly successful CD-ROM market. Each successive quarterly wave of the survey will capture the perceptions, purchase decisions, purchase behavior, and use of CD-ROM software titles.
In addition, the study will capture data on the installed base of hardware in each household. Complete demographic data on the user and household members will be analyzed and presented.
Each quarter, participants receive a quick-turnaround, top-line summary followed by a complete analytical report including full tabs. In addition, our program analysts will provide analytical insights on the survey findings. All data is provided on floppies for your own further analysis.
Charter members will receive special discounts and will be able to "piggyback" their own specific survey questions in upcoming surveys. These will be limited to a first-come, first-serve basis.
The InterTrak survey is a unique study in the world of interactive research and is the only continuous study of its kind in existence. It promises to be the largest and most accurate survey of its kind in the world. The NFO panel will be a statistically accurate representation of over 700 CD-ROM and PC-owning households, carefully pre-screened from a base of over 30,000 US households.
This 250-page report presents a balanced overview of the entire market for interactive television. Available in Feb. 1995, the report looks at the key issues for consumers , service providers, and content providers. It also examines the emerging ITV trials being conducted in 1995.
Specific sections of the report cover the following topics:
- Market trends and competition
- competing platforms for interactive television
- ITV applications in all areasóincluding entertainment, information, and communications, for both leisure and personal use
- Worldwide multimedia applications market sizing and five-year revenue forecast
- Market development issues, covering both exogenous factors as well as technology requirements, consumer spending patterns, and willingness to pay
- An examination of business models of how interactive television will work, who will make money, and where
- a "quick snapshot" look at over 35 trials being conducted in 1995.
- a corporate directory of over 150 ITV firms with a map of all (still viable) alliances formed in the past year.
Multimedia Publishing on the InterNet
This 150-page report, published Feb. 96, covers the dynamic new business of publishing information on the global interNet. It describes how to lower your costs dramatically, reduce inventory, deliver immediately, reach more and new customers, advertise without getting flamed, and produce multimedia documents beyond plain text and static graphics.
Please contact our Silicon Valley office at (408) 255-5007 for more information, tables of contents, tab samples, and pricing.
The CyberMedia Group is a global "virtual corporation" headquartered in Silicon Valley. Interactive Information Industry, I3, I3 Technology TimeLine, i-SPICE, CyberMedia 2001, CyberVision and InterTrak are all service trademarks of The CyberMedia Group.