Specifically, they can profit from DTC firms' expertise in persuading their customers to provide and share their data.
Though their business does not look great at the moment, the long-term outlook for the services firms looks good: as production from some of the world's biggest fields matures, there will be ever more need for the firms' expertise in squeezing out the last drop.
This, and the American firm's expertise in deep-water oil-drilling, is what CNOOC, or rather China, wants.
Wood put her in touch with B&D Consulting, a lobbying firm with expertise in pediatric legislation.
An environmental science and engineering consulting firm whose expertise and focus is in aquatic-based remediation and waterfront development projects.
John Pakutka is managing director of The Crescent Group, an advisory services firm with expertise in healthcare management, policy, and litigation.
In 1989, Elizabeth H. Weatherman, a year after joining Warburg Pincus, was asked to build the firm's expertise in medical device companies, a new area for the firm.
So far, the firms' efforts have run the gamut from simple conversations with summer associates to videos promoting the firm's expertise or its diversity.
It has agreed to a $7 billion investment by BP in its flagging gasfields, partly to tap the British firm's expertise.
Bank executives, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said they sometimes hired Promontory to appease regulators, who think highly of the firm's expertise.
