Insights and Analytics

Create a competitive advantage from data-driven insight

In today’s business environment, your organization faces a range of opportunities and challenges, that continually require practical solutions and well-informed decisions to help you get ahead. That’s where we come in. Our experienced and skilled team helps you find the right information, understand it, and make sound decisions that help you meet your desired goals. We help organizations across industries, associations, levels of government, and communities in making evidence-based decisions to achieve positive outcomes.

Whatever the complexity of your challenge, we find a data-driven approach to help you make the right choices. Our data solutions can help you methodically analyze impacts and estimate outcomes of decisions and projects, so you can get better results, grow your revenue, or improve program delivery.

 

Helping you make better decisions

Our team of experienced and skilled economists and statistical analysts specializes in helping you make strategic decisions, evaluate programs and business alternatives, determine economic and financial contributions, and develop public policy — all through data-driven insight.

  • Economic Impact Assessment

    Our data-driven analysis helps you understand and estimate the economic impact generated by industries, projects or initiatives, on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment, and government revenues, so that you can make more informed decisions. 

  • Sustainability & Greenhouse Gas Impact Assessment

    We use data-driven methods to inform government policy or help analyze your organization’s ecological footprint. Our team conducts research and modelling related to climate adaptation measures, greenhouse gas assessment, and carbon pricing. 

  • Industry Analysis

    We work with you to conduct research and develop quantitative estimates to support better planning, policy development, and decision making. We provide a range of services including benchmarking, cost-benefit analysis, market analysis, and cost studies across industries.   

  • Support for Indigenous Communities

    We conduct research and analysis to help Indigenous communities achieve better outcomes. We help estimate the cost of providing services, funding needs, and economic impact of activity within traditional territories, and negotiate and monitor impact-benefit agreements. 

  • Litigation, Regulatory, & Trade Negotiation Support

    Our experienced team provides data-driven support for your research, statistical modelling, demand forecasting, financial analysis and cost modelling needs. Whether you need support for regulatory processes, litigation, or trade negotiation, we can help.

  • Rural & Regional Economic Analysis

    If you need research and analysis for economic development purposes, our skilled team can help. We build regional economic outlooks, labour market studies, benchmarking, industry studies, and frameworks to assess your choices and make better decisions. 

    Insights

    • Performance

      April 26, 2024

      How can small business owners navigate the people puzzle?

      How can you address people issues as a small business owner? These steps can help you overcome obstacles and give you more time to focus on your business. 

    • Performance

      April 24, 2024

      How monitoring your results can help you make informed decisions for your manufacturing business

      How can you make informed decisions to support the future of your manufacturing business? These tools can help you achieve the right results.

    • Performance

      April 17, 2024

      Conflict in the workplace: the ripple effect on small businesses

      Conflict in the workplace can impact small businesses, affecting team dynamics, productivity, and company culture.

    Contact our Consulting Team

    Susan Mowbray, MA, is a Partner in MNP’s Vancouver Consulting Practice. With more than two decades of experience in economic modelling, applying economic analysis and project management, Susan helps clients achieve their business goals and enhance their success.

    Susan delivers demand forecasts, prepares community profiles and economic indicators for economic development agencies, models economic impacts and labour demand, develops cost estimates and prepares business cases. She analyzes information and delivers comprehensive information developing reports for audiences ranging from academics and government to business and community groups.

    Susan works closely with public sector organizations, industry associations and private companies in the aquaculture, transportation, health care, not-for-profit, utilities, education, manufacturing and automotive sectors.

    Susan earned a Master of Arts (MA) from Simon Fraser University in 1998. She has taught in the business school at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and is a member of the Association of Professional Economists of B.C. and the Canadian Association of Business Economists.