HOW TO MAKE A GO VERSUS NO-GO DECISION WITH CONFIDENCE
Defending a project’s worth requires objective, quantifiable, 3rd party analysis – in short, a project feasibility study.
What are the challenges of conducting project feasibility studies in Latin America?
The approval of capital-intensive projects, particularly in emerging markets, can be nerve wracking and subject to intense scrutinization, from head office, and from the board.
The challenges:
- Lack of published market forecast data to gauge market readiness and ROI potential
- Erratic growth patterns in the market – wild jumps followed by rapid collapses
- Constant tech disruption that changes conditions on the playing field
- Well-connected local players that can use nepotism to get ahead of you
- Grey and black-market competitors who undermine market pricing and margins
- Weak infrastructure, energy storage issues, logistics limitations can slow project implementation
- Regulatory bureaucracy can cause serious delays to implementation
You need an experience consulting partner who understands these challenges and works them into any project revenue and cost forecasts that measure project feasibility.
Recognizing Roadblocks and Whipping up Workarounds
Unlike most global firms, AMI brings deep regional and sector-specific expertise to feasibility studies in Latin America.
- 30+ years of continuous work in Latin America, giving us a precise understanding of each country’s political, infrastructural, competitive, and regulatory dynamics
- Local research teams across the region for on-the-ground intelligence
- Specialized experience in energy, logistics, mining, industrial, educaton, insurance, and consumer sectors
This allows us to quickly assess your project’s market potential, customer readiness, regulatory hurdles, competitive environment, and operational viability.
But we don’t just gather insights—we quantify feasibility:
- ARIMA time-series forecasting to project demand or consumption growth
- Bass Diffusion Models to estimate adoption curves
- Monte Carlo simulations to measure uncertainty in capex, opex, demand, and FX volatility
- Capital cost benchmarking against comparable regional projects
- PESTEL analysis to evaluate structural macro and regulatory risks
- Bayesian decision modeling to update feasibility as new information emerges
This integrated approach – regional understanding + local intelligence + rigorous statistical modeling – delivers a clear recommendation:
- Go (with AMI supplying workarounds for challenges)
- Go with caveats
- Do not proceed—with the evidence-based rationale behind the call
