Strategic Benchmarking

Profit Potential.
Quantified.

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Benchmarking: Predictive.
Not retrospective.

Unlock Growth Potential

  • Benchmark performance against peer strategies.
  • Identify high-impact improvement opportunities.

Strengthen Strategic Decisions

  • Quantify potential across your portfolio.
  • Support investment, divestment, M&A and new ventures.

Drive Profitability and Value

  • Evaluate expected profitability.
  • Optimise resources and customer impact.

How it works

Profit Potential Analysis

  • Evaluation of a Business’s expected level of sustainable profitability.
  • Based on lead indicators from three categories: Competitive Position, Market Environment, Cost and Capital Structure.
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Profit Potential Analysis

Backed by 25,000 years of business experience and insights from 4,500 companies, pims.ai applies proven ‘laws of the marketplace’ to quantify your profit potential. Using the PIMS® PAR® model, we analyse 15 key drivers – from competitive position to cost structure – delivering predictive, evidence-based insights for sustained success.

Strategic Peer Analysis

  • Understanding and compare strategies of structurally similar businesses.
  • Set realistic targets for customer value, innovation, growthand profitability.
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Strategic Peer Analysis

PIMS® Strategic Peer Analysis benchmarks your business against structurally similar peers, distinguishing between winners and losers to reveal what drives success. This evidence-based approach sets realistic performance expectations, highlights the most effective improvement levers, and guides resource allocation for sustainable profitability and growth.

Portfolio Analysis

  • Evaluate and compare entire portfolio at a glance in one dashboard.
  • Ensurea fair comparison, enabling informed investment decisions.
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Portfolio Analysis

PIMS® Portfolio Analysis gives you a data-driven view of all strategic business units in one comprehensive dashboard. It enables objective evaluation across diverse businesses, supporting decisions on where to invest, divest, or refocus — sharpening portfolio priorities for sustainable value creation.

Custom Analytics

  • Hundreds of KPIs including Growth, Cashflow, Working Capital, R&D, Innovation, Pricing, Quality, Productivity, Advertising, Promotion, Salesforce, G&A, etc..
  • Decision tools for all aspects of Strategic Planning including Scenarios, M&A Due Diligence, Start-ups, Evaluation of Alternatives, Competitor Analysis, Business Plans, etc.
  • Evidence-based exhibits for Management Education including The Laws of the Marketplace, How Sectors Differ, How to Compete, What are the Critical Controls, etc.
Tailored analysis. Customised to
your needs.
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Custom Analytics

Whatever your particular project, harness the power of evidence from the world's most comprehensive business database.  Select the KPIs most relevant for you to benchmark and control: PIMS will give you comparisons in a holistic framework.  Pre-test decisions across multiple macro scenarios, or evaluate acquisition targets, or successfully enter new markets, or torture-test different marketing tactics, or put yourself in your competitors' shoes: the evidence you need is there.  Help your managers routinely take actions based on memorable and relevant evidence rather than wishful thinking.

Impact Cases

Strategic Benchmarking
Reviving Market Share

A consumer goods manufacturer was losing share in key European markets. pims.ai drove targeted segmentation and brand realignment, simplifying the portfolio, winning retailer support, and boosting both market share and profitability.

Strategic Benchmarking
Sharper Portfolio Focus

A chemicals company faced stagnant growth and unclear priorities. pims.ai delivered strategic portfolio optimisation, highlighting high-potential businesses to grow and low-potential ones to divest or manage, creating a sharper, value-driven focus.

Strategic Benchmarking
Balancing Margins Globally

A European food company struggled with uneven profitability across markets. pims.ai portfolio analysis guided strategic shifts in marketing, innovation, and cost structure, boosting margins in core segments and enabling rapid exit decisions in underperforming markets like Russia.

The broadest and best management database in the world. The only source of strategic principles based on fact rather than opinion.

Larry Light
Marketer Behind Revival of McDonald’s

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