Stage 3 Consulting

Selected work

Work, told as the decision it changed.

Every Stage 3 case study is written in the same six parts — challenge, research question, approach, insight, recommendation and impact — so a reader can judge the reasoning, not just admire the outcome. A study is published only when the client has approved what it says.

  1. 01

    Challenge

    The business situation that made the work necessary.

  2. 02

    Research question

    The single question the study was commissioned to answer.

  3. 03

    Approach

    How the study was designed, and why that design.

  4. 04

    Insight

    What the data showed that was not already known.

  5. 05

    Recommendation

    The action we advised, stated plainly.

  6. 06

    Impact

    What changed afterwards, measured.

The method behind the six parts

Browse by

Three ways in, once there is something to sort.

The index filters on industry, on the capability the engagement drew on, and on the kind of challenge it addressed. The controls below are the real taxonomy — they are inert until the first studies are published.

Industry

Sectors covered by our fieldwork experience

  • Food & Beverage
  • FMCG
  • Automotive
  • Telecommunications
  • Retail
  • Media
  • Advertising

Service

The capability the engagement drew on

  • Strategy & Business Problem Solving
  • Market Research & Consumer Insights
  • Data Analytics & Decision Intelligence
  • Fieldwork & Data Acquisition
  • Quality Assurance
  • Corporate Training & Capability Building

Challenge type

Set from the studies themselves, not decided in advance

Client input required

Filtering, sorting and pagination activate automatically when the first case study is published. Nothing on this page is a mock-up of work we have not done.

See the capabilities these studies come from

The index

The template is built. The studies are not yet released.

Each card below is a live component with its fields empty

IndustryServiceYear

Case study 01

  1. 01 Challenge
  2. 02 Research question
  3. 03 Approach
  4. 04 Insight
  5. 05 Recommendation
  6. 06 Impact

Client input required

IndustryServiceYear

Case study 02

  1. 01 Challenge
  2. 02 Research question
  3. 03 Approach
  4. 04 Insight
  5. 05 Recommendation
  6. 06 Impact

Client input required

IndustryServiceYear

Case study 03

  1. 01 Challenge
  2. 02 Research question
  3. 03 Approach
  4. 04 Insight
  5. 05 Recommendation
  6. 06 Impact

Client input required

We would rather show an empty index than a written-up engagement the client has not cleared. Confidentiality is part of the work, and an unapproved case study costs more than an absent one.

Meet the people who would run the study

Intake

Fourteen fields per study.

This is the complete list Stage 3 has to supply for each engagement it wants published. Every field maps to a slot already built into the template, so a study goes live the day the last one is filled.

  1. 01

    Client name

    The organisation the work was done for.

  2. 02

    Confidential toggle

    Named, or anonymised by sector — one switch, set per study.

  3. 03

    Industry

    One sector, so the study files under the right filter.

  4. 04

    Services used

    Which of the six capabilities the engagement drew on.

  5. 05

    Challenge

    The business situation, in two or three sentences.

  6. 06

    Research question

    The single question the study had to answer.

  7. 07

    Approach

    How the study was framed, and why that design.

  8. 08

    Methodology

    Method, sample size and definition, geography, fieldwork dates.

  9. 09

    Insight

    The finding that changed what the client believed.

  10. 10

    Recommendation

    The action advised, in the words it was advised in.

  11. 11

    Impact

    What changed afterwards, and over what period.

  12. 12

    Statistics

    Any figures cleared for publication, each with its base.

  13. 13

    Quote

    A client line, attributed by name or by role, with written approval.

  14. 14

    Images

    Any photography or charts cleared for publication.

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