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Surviving the Cuts, Winning the Market: How Lean Strategy Teams Stay Ahead with Fewer Resources

In today’s high-stakes business environment, the pressure to deliver strategic insight is intensifying—even as strategy and research teams face staffing cuts and shrinking budgets. The paradox? Demand for timely, decision-ready intelligence has never been higher.

The Challenge

Headcount reductions are real and they’re hitting strategy and market research functions hard. These teams, often mislabeled as cost centers, are the ones responsible for identifying threats, spotting opportunities, and informing high-stakes decisions. Yet now, they’re expected to deliver more impact with fewer people.

Common challenges we hear from strategy teams navigating reductions:

  • Reduced bandwidth to monitor competitors and market shifts in real time, limiting the team’s ability to anticipate and respond to change.
    • Case Study: Global Strategy Team in Telecommunications: A major U.S. telecom provider was investing over $20 million annually in market research—but teams struggled to keep up with fast-moving competitors due to fragmented access and manual monitoring. After deploying SinglePoint, the company implemented automated alerts and competitive tracking dashboards, enabling real-time visibility into market shifts. The result: faster response to competitor pricing changes and product launches, helping teams act before losing share.
  • Inefficient, fragmented research workflows, with time lost navigating disconnected sources and duplicated efforts.
    • Case Study: Global Pharmaceutical Company: A top-5 pharmaceutical company discovered redundant research efforts across regions were costing millions. Internal teams were recreating studies unaware that similar analyses already existed. By consolidating internal research within SinglePoint, the company eliminated duplicated work, streamlined knowledge sharing, and cut $1 million per month in unnecessary spend—without adding headcount.
  • Lack of timely, actionable insight, increasing the risk of missed opportunities and delayed strategic decisions.
    • Case Study: Enterprise Strategy Team Driving $2B in New Revenue: A corporate strategy team used SinglePoint to accelerate time-to-market for a major product innovation. By surfacing relevant research and summarizing key insights across business units and regions, they aligned stakeholders faster and made confident go-to-market decisions. This speed and clarity helped drive a $2 billion annual revenue opportunity—demonstrating how timely intelligence can materially impact business outcomes.

The question isn’t if you need strategic insight—it’s how you deliver it with fewer resources.

The Solution: AI-Powered Knowledge Management with SinglePoint

SinglePoint acts like a virtual analyst—curating, summarizing, and delivering intelligence in real time. It enables lean strategy teams to move faster, stay informed, and maintain a competitive edge.

SinglePoint empowers lean teams to deliver enterprise-wide intelligence at scale:

  • Automated Insight Summaries: Turn thousands of documents into executive-ready digests with no manual analysis. That means your team isn’t wasting time wading through data that’s not immediately helpful.
  • Recommended Reading Lists: Prioritize signals and eliminate noise with curated research aligned to your team’s current initiatives and strategic priorities. SinglePoint surfaces the most relevant insights so teams stay informed without wasting time on exhaustive searching. Reading lists are purpose-built to guide next steps, removing the guesswork from identifying what matters most.
  • RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation): Serve up fast, accurate responses grounded in your organization’s trusted content and sources, not guesswork.
  • Centralized Intelligence Hub: Eliminate silos. Collaborate across teams with a single source of truth.
  • Proactive Alerts: Anticipate what’s next. SinglePoint delivers timely alerts on key market developments, competitor actions, and regulatory updates enabling you to act before others even notice.

Discover how SinglePoint can fill resource gaps and transform your strategy function into a data-driven powerhouse — even amid staffing reductions. Let’s talk now.

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