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18/12/2020

The Clevis Research team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2021!

We are looking forward to kicking off new projects starting from the 7th January 2021!

16/12/2020

Hi, I'm Tim Leister and Junior Project Manager at CLEVIS Research since September.

At CLEVIS I do a mix of everything related to B2B market research. I first and foremost work to understand the complex markets of our highly specialized customers. This way I can help them either to quantify the potential of their new products and services or analyse the competitive environment. Considering the high level of specificness, you often become familiar with markets you did not even know existed - that's pretty exiting!

Before I started at CLEVIS, I studied at Lund University in Sweden. My focus was on Economic Development and History from a global but also regional perspective. After 5 years in the high north, it is safe to say it took a little time to adjust to Bavaria afterwards.

28/09/2020

Last Friday Clevis Research (virtually) looked back at Q3 together with our sister companies (Telescope Advisory Partners, Folienhelfer, Holistic Works) in the official The Growth Partners Q3 meeting.

It was amazing to see, how everyone in the company tried its best for the last months to help their team to get out of this crisis. Also, we at Clevis Research rethought our business model in Q2 and Q3 and came up with new products, services, personas and tools in order to survive.

Let's hope that we are able to work on our new exciting projects with no virus that interferes. We keep you up to date with dominant topics that are most relevant to you!

17/09/2020

Oracle Inc. is poised to be the favourite in the race for Bytedance’s TikTok rights in the United States. As both companies are yet to reveal any details of the potential cooperation, one can only speculate whether a deal will include a takeover or a mere cooperation between the two.

Assuming a deal goes through, the question remains whether a takeover of the United States’ branch bodes well for Oracle in the long term. Oracle has no significant experience within the social media industry and it is therefore unsure how well Oracle can maintain Tiktok’s popularity in the United States.
Although TikTok vastly exceeded expectations this year due to Covid-19, annual growth rates are estimated to plateau. This leaves Oracle with a larger asset of data but an even greater challenge to withstand stagnating growth. A strategic and technological cooperation of data management between Oracle and Bytedance, rather than an acquisition, can therefore mitigate potential risks for Oracle.

eMarketer (2020) predicted a user base of approximately 45m in February 2020. In the wake of Covid 19, TikTok defied this modest prognosis and reached 100m users in the U.S. by August 2020. Growth of the current user base might plateau nonetheless.

11/09/2020

Tesla was the pioneer and was dominating the market of electric vehicles and battery technology in the past years. However, it is going to face rising competition within the next years, which will be hard to ignore.

We at Clevis Research are observing the current trends of increasing competition with a great excitement. What's your opinion? Will Tesla continue to dominate the market of EVs or will other players going to have a severe impact?

01/07/2020

Last Friday, Clevis Research together with its sister companies (Telescope, Folienhelfer, Holistic Works) had (virtually) the recap of the last months in the official growth partners Q2 meeting.

CLR like many other companies have been badly hit by the Corona crisis and faced tremendous challenges during the past months. Consequently, we started to rethink our business model on a green field with new ideas to spark new opportunities and growth.

Based on the so-called “Day-0” philosophy, we came up with new strategic business concepts including new products and services, new personas and tools in order to execute our market research activities on another level to get back on track for the rest of 2020.

27/05/2020

As Covid-19 has spread, so did our fear of contaminated surfaces. Antimicrobial coatings can be one more piece in the puzzle of public health security.

Our analyst Meike Winkler wrote an article about the market research project with our client TriOptoTec GmbH, a German specialist in developing photocatalytic solutions for self-sanitizing surfaces under the name Dyphox.

Read our new blogpost to find out more. In times of a pandemic, this topic is possible more current than ever:

https://clevis-research.de/antimicrobial-coatings-could-be-a-key-technology-to-public-health-security/

As Covid-19 has spread, so did our fear of contaminated surfaces. Antimicrobial coatings can be one more piece in the puzzle of public health security.

20/05/2020

Sure this image made us smile. Nevertheless, COVID-19 might have a long-term impact on the digital transformation of our jobs as the pandemic changes our every-day live in several dimensions: telecommuting, usage of delivery services, rise of virtual events and collaboration via cloud services.

For us, digital transformation is of course not a bad thing, though this process can be a rocky one in the best of times. But still, technology can solve problems and help us to be more effective.



Image Source: Digital Transformation Quiz, Susanne E. Wölk (TWITTER)

13/05/2020

One thing we would like to keep after the lockdown: additional and widened cycle lanes!

In the last weeks, in several German cities road markings were redrawn to create “pop-up” cycle lanes as cyclists demand more space to physically distance on their commutes to work. We also see the positive impact on air quality and hope that this change in infrastructure will not be temporary.

11/05/2020

Extraordinary situations result in extraordinary stories.

In mid-April the website Corona Ventures launched. Hosted by four people from a Berlin-based consultancy, the website shares inspiring stories from business leaders and their sometimes risky decisions during these challenging times. You can read for example about AmboVent, an open-source ventilator published on GitHub on 1 April 2020. It can be assembled by using standard medical equipment and at low costs with the aim to reach underdeveloped areas in the world.

Read more here: https://corona-ventures.com/

We’re inspired, we hope you too.

04/05/2020

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬!

With no surprise, Netflix published impressive numbers for its first quarter of 2020 this week. With a double-digit growth of 15.7 million new subscribers in the first three months of this year, its paying user base has grown to 182.8 million.

The same holds true for Disney+. In the race for five months, the streaming service already won more than 50 million subscribers. With its launch in seven European countries on March 24, the boom seems to continue. On the first day, its app was downloaded five million times.

And we’re also listening to music and podcasts, though differently. Spotify reported at the end of March that social distancing has shifted the way its subscribers use the streaming service based on listening stats from March 19 to 25. Without daily commutes and an increase in remote work, the users are currently streaming more via desktops, TVs, smart speakers, and gaming consoles. There is also a shift in genres. “Chill” music has a boom and users are more interested in news podcasts and those talking about health, fitness, and self-improvement.

Stay tuned, we will follow up on the numbers!

27/04/2020

Our analyst Meike Winkler wrote an article about the development of a Covid-19 vaccine. Read it to find out more about the long way for vaccines from R&D to approval and current vaccine projects:

https://clevis-research.de/understand-the-covid-19-vaccine-development/

After weeks of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us are beginning to understand that only an approved vaccine can be the key solution.