The energy and telecommunications markets combined, in the United States, is a $650 billion retail market.

A market the size and complexity of energy and telecommunications holds tremendous potential for both horizontal and vertical integration. Frequently, clients wish to examine the options of entering new markets and forging new business models. However, dealing with new services presents uncertainties and risks that must be clearly understood. The development of a business plan is undertaken with the purpose of making clients the most knowledgeable decision-makers possible about the level of investment, the risks, ranges of possible outcomes, and sensitivities of those outcomes. The effort invested in the business plan should be rigorous as the resulting decision could launch a course of action that may be ill fated from the start.

The principals of the Blue Ridge Advisory Services Group have served the following clients in preparing business plan evaluations of new markets and new services.

• CaroNet
• Cisco Systems
• Convergys
• DukeNet
• Future of the Piedmont Foundation
• KIH OnLine
• Kline Hawkes LLC
• NORTEL
• PaeTec Communications
• Sprint
• US Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund