Services

Overview of Services

FAO Global provides a broad range of Business Intelligence, Political Risk, and Strategy Solutions for organizations with a global outlook. We combined a range of disciplines to identify gaps and develop opportunities. While we offer individual services, most clients choose a mixture of services combined together. Since many aspects overlap, we can provide more value to your organization through a multilayered approach which maximizes output by merging competencies.

"Providing market intelligence to drive strategy in the Asia-Pacific"

Business Intelligence, Market & Policy Research

We provide a range of business intelligence research services that cover the business operating environment, identify political risk, evaluate crisis situations, incorporate security assessments, and prepare your organization for successful trade shows or meetings with foreign counterparts.

Examples of Our Research for Business

Market Research
Independent SWOT Analysis
Competitor Analysis & Company or Leadership Profiles
Due-Diligence Research (For caseloads, JV, M&A purposes)
Policy & Politics Analysis
Daily issues, events, or legislation tracking with updates

Management & Risk Consulting

We conduct a variety of overseas management & risk consulting and support to entry into the global market place. Utilize our language, cultural, and regional expertise to save your team time and effort, in essence to protect to bottom line and ensure your initiatives start smoothly overseas. We understand the risks inherent to dealing with overseas partners and more specifically, we have lived, worked, and studied in the regions you plan to go to. We maintain a global network or resources across more than 14 countries and 29 industries. Not only are we proficient at building out resources for new industries and regions, we have spent years on the ground in China and Southeast Asia and understand the politics, history, people, and marketplace. Our team will boost your company's ability to capitalize on market opportunities and protect and/or mitigate against risks.

Strategy & Execution

We help you understand how culture, risk, history, geographic location, public perception, political upheaval, and regional customs affect your strategy in Asia. Our team can support your strategic planning for operations, partnerships, joint ventures, new market entry, investments, marketing, and many more functions. Don't go into a new country blind.Use our team, our knowledge, our analysis, our processes to enable your team to focus on the core business.

Just a few hours of our time can save you months of yours. Mishaps, miscommunication, and cultural nuances can cost hundreds of thousands in misdirected efforts if not understood up front.

Overseas Business Missions

Our team of global enthusiast can set your company up for success through a variety of group or private business missions to the country or region of your choice. Being geographically located in Washington, DC, our team has the resources to plan your trip to nearly every region in the world, set up meetings with government representatives, business leaders, and related associations. Be it an introductory trip or a complete exhibition initiative, our team can support. We leverage local guides, conduct pre-trip research, and provide you with a clear strategy and outputs for your trip.

China Business Missions

We can also arrange for an industry specific business mission to single or multiple cities in China. Our team of associates all speak Mandarin Chinese and will provide you with on-ground facilitation, business development, and networking support. Additionally, we offer pre and post trip reports so you don't need to worry about missing something. This type of trip is ideal for companies preparing their Asia Strategy, seeking to develop a new product, or to meet potential investors and partners. Our founder, a proud alum of Tsinghua University (Asia #1), often leads these delegations personally and is passionate about building mutually beneficial relationships between overseas & Chinese companies.