The tax you probably didn’t realize you’re paying

Three data points from our recent research on the current state of strategy and innovation paint a jarring picture.

99% (🤯) of strategy and innovation leaders rate desk research (finding publicly available information on the web) as somewhat or very important to their work.

But while most (84% or more, depending on the solution) of those same professionals are using Google, LLMs, analysts, and other public research reports or providers to help them with desk research…

…2 in 3 cite at least one of the following reasons for not doing any (or all!) of the desk research they wish they could:

1. It's too hard to find the info needed

2. It's too time-consuming

3. No great tool to find the info needed

4. It's too expensive

TL;DR?

🟢 Thanks to Google and LLMs, access to information has never been easier, cheaper, or faster.

🔴 Which means access to good (read: helpful, relevant, accurate, and actionable) information has never been harder — or more important.

And so, today’s menu of options leaves professionals tasked with driving meaningful revenue for their business with a tough choice:

• skimp on research they know is important, OR 

• waste valuable resources (time, money, and/or energy) on solutions that still leave them needing more

Instead of just accepting the "sanity and bandwidth tax" of strategy and innovation research as reality, how do we remove it?

🔴 Old way: solutions like Google and LLMs, addressing any research question for any type of user
🟢 New way: new solutions doubling down on specific types of research that strategy and innovation leaders need to do and want to be doing more of 

Tapping:

• our decade of experience manually running desk research projects for the F500, 

• our own AI + human-powered desk research engine to mine the web for the best of the best when it comes to a specific type of desk research, and 

• countless conversations with practitioners like you in the trenches of doing this research on your own,

…we’re custom-building world-class solutions to supercharge how your biggest time sucks – market, competitor, audience, trend, landscape and other types of foundational desk research – are done.

In just hours, you’ll receive a research report so robust, helpful, relevant, accurate, and actionable that you won’t believe you ever spent days in the depths of Google, wading through pages of Forrester reports only half-relevant to you, or learning how to navigate LLMs. 
 
🔴 Old way: 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭?
🟢 New way: 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳? 

Happy tax-evading 😉,
Victoria

PS. If you’re interested in accelerating your workflows around all the desk research you’re doing (or skipping…) to understand relevant competitors, market, landscape, or trends, give Wonder’s general-purpose AI tier a free try or grab some time to chat with us for custom research.

PPS. Do you or your team do a lot of desk research on market landscapes, competitive intelligence, audience insights, etc.?

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