Market Research and Industry Intelligence
Ursa Major Associates keeps a close eye out for logistics industry transformational trends, market hot spots and disruptive technologies and innovations. We make a conscious effort to observe where the global logistics industry is going, watching carefully for competitive, regulatory and customer-driven shifts in direction and power. We conduct client specific bespoke market research studies and produce regularly issued industry surveillance reports on a subscription basis as well.
We pay particular attention to:
• Express parcel and mail volume trends
• Impact of ‘e-substitution’ on product life-cycles
• Disruptive technologies and innovations
• Sustainability strategies and initiatives
• Value chain transformation
• Convergence of mailing and shipping
• Technology innovation/integration
• Industry consolidation
• Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, failures
• Trends in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
• Postal work-sharing; pre-sort and drop-ship trends
• Deregulation and Privatization of Posts
• Influence of e-commerce on logistics
• 'Hybrid' mail, distributed print
• Landed cost’ parcel export models
