Built for Business
A Business Partner
At EQ Economics, we understand the unique challenges that business owners and executives face. Our job is to provide analytical support and real time guidance to help business leaders develop strategies for success in different economic scenarios and build resilience in the face of adversity.
We are here to help leaders understand the operating environment through a period of change and uncertainty and apply that to various aspects of their businesses; from the strategic to the operational.
The macro backdrop impacts on business in a multitude of ways; it offers both opportunity and generates real threats. It should be factored into strategic planning from day one. It must be considered in the normal cycle of business planning. And it can impact operations. A risk management and opportunity identification mindset is central, Every business is different. Every market and industry has its own nuisance.
EQ Economics can’t run your business, only you can. But we can help you factor in the broader operating environment into your decision making.
Business Leaders Need a Trusted Advisor
EQ Economics provides a sensible view of what is happening in the Australian economy, a willingness to understand the changing nature of the economy, and to take in the global context. We use hard data and rigorous analytical tools but remain open minded about really matters for our clients.
Our worked is geared to supporting decision making that drives commercial outcomes through positive actions.
In the 2020s the business operating environment is being refashioned in a way we have not seen for generations. The secular backdrop and the way the economy functions can no longer be taken for granted.
Over the past thirty years, business leaders have operated within a relatively benign economic environment, which enabled them to adopt a consensus-driven approach to incorporating the broader economic context into strategic planning and business management. This consensus was shaped by sustained growth, low economic volatility, and consistently moderate inflation.
Business leaders routinely drew upon a combination of media commentary, financial market developments, and perspectives from prominent economists to form their understanding of the economy. By synthesising information from these sources, they were able to construct a narrative that guided both their planning processes and operational decisions.
This consensus-led approach was cost-effective; generally available information and views on the economy sufficed. Not anymore. Powerful demographic and technological forces are changing the way the economy works. Economists and commentators are struggling to understand what this means for everything from inflation and interest rates to business costs and labour availability. Relying on the past to inform a very different future will not work.
We are in a new economy and business leaders will need to invest more time and resources to understand what this could mean for their operations; the threats, the risks and most importantly, the incredible opportunities that this new operating environment will offer up.
Our mission is based on the proposition that the favourable operating environment of the last 30 years is gone. A world of new opportunities, more risks and genuine threats to financial performance is now upon us.
Let EQ Economics help you to navigate the brave new world ahead of us.
