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Spectrum Value Partners

Posted on: 27 June 2008 - 7:33pm
Spectrum Value Partners

Hi,

I am looking for any kind of information on Spectrum Value Partners (formerly Spectrum Strategy Consultants):

  • insights on the recruitment process,

  • ambience at work,
  • training,
  • travel,
  • contact with the client,
  • usual work at a business analyst level,
  • evolution of the company after being taken over by Value Partners,
  • or any other information

    Thanks !

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Posted on: 1 July 2008 - 5:08pm #1

Did you manage to find anything on google?

Posted on: 2 July 2008 - 10:24am #2

Not really... and just few comments in the Value Partners section of Vault.

Posted on: 2 July 2008 - 12:22pm #3

Not really too knowledgable about these guys - who are they exactly?

Posted on: 2 July 2008 - 1:41pm #4

"Spectrum Value Partners works with the world's best media, entertainment and telecoms organisations to identify and exploit opportunities for innovatio, growth, expansion and performance improvement." according to one of their leaflets.

"At Spectrum, we provide top-level strategic advice to companies at the forefront of the world's most dynamic industries. Over the last 12 years we have expanded rapidly to serve clients in over 40 countries, through a network of eight international offices. In Asia Pacific, we have operations in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney and New Delhi.
Our clients span all sectors of the rapidly evolving digital market-place including television, mobile telecoms, music, new media, internet, radio, fixed telecoms and sports. We work with innovative and ambitious organisations in these fields such as the BBC, English Premier League, Hutchison, IDA (Singapore), NBC, NTT DoCoMo, Ofcom UK, PCCW, Shaw Brothers, SingTel, Time Warner, Texas Pacific Newbridge and Vodafone."

"Since February 2007, Spectrum has merged with Value Partners, the management and IT consulting group headquartered in Milan. The merger will enable Spectrum to offer a complete suite of strategy, operations and technology consulting to our clients. Particularly in Asia, the merger will create significant synergies for the group, including further extending Spectrum's client reach in China."

Posted on: 10 July 2008 - 10:21am #5

Have a look here if you haven't seen it already:
http://www.valuepartnersgroup.com/vpmc/en/
and obviously here:
http://www.spectrumstrategy.com/

In answer to your questions though, here's some stuff that generally applies to strategy. If it's not strategy you're interested in, tell me!

  • Travel- depends on your clients. Most of the time you will work from your office though, so travel should be fairly minimal.
  • Training- typically, training is provided but there is no recognised consulting or strategy qualification. The closest thing is an MBA.
  • Work/life- strategy is deadline driven. Hours can be long.
  • Money- because you are generally not on a training contract, and because strategy is a very profitable business, pay is usually quite good. Places are always competitive though.
  • Day to day tasks- spreadsheet modelling, research in industry journals/internet, making powerpoints collating your results for the client.

Because Spectrum Value Partners doesn't appear to focus on financial services, the hours might be more reasonable than at other firms.

Hope this helps!
Chris.

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