GB5D Information

GB5D helps Life Sciences and CleanTech companies find out whether there exist international growth opportunities for their products and services. If so, we help them develop an International Growth Strategy and an Implementation Plan. The company’s management can execute the plan by themselves, or, if they want we will help supervise the International Business Plan’s implementation and monitoring.While we have experience working in all continents, expanding the markets of start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, we're focused on working with Life Sciences and CleanTech B2B companies. Especially those SME's with highly technical products; whether software, hardware or services, with revenue’s between 20-100$M.♦ Through secondary research we can find out whether there exist international growth opportunities for your products and services and rank the opportunities by fit.▪ Understand the company’s product offering, existing strategy and culture. ▪ Produce a country/opportunity map: market size and cultural distance▪ Determine market entry▪ Recommend geographic markets for primary research♦ If there are such opportunities we can follow up with primary research, and confirm company fit through joint meetings and interviews with industry knowledgeable people, local to the geographic target markets♦ Develop the International Growth Strategy, bearing in mind such industry specific barriers such as regulatory and payment issues. ♦ Convert the Strategy into a Growth Plan paying special attention to impact on budget, organization, processes, personnel, culture and business risk.♦ A growth strategy may require the acquisition of an overseas organization with a significant cultural distance. We have the experience to assist during the Due Diligence and Integration phase.♦ In addition, we can provide cultural training for employees who work in the international environment, and negotiation training for those that have to negotiate across cultural barriers.