Our intelligence practice
Corporate intelligence to understand and compete better.
Not every decision needs the same kind of analysis. Our specialty is Competitive Intelligence; we extend it with market and ecosystem intelligence, strategic analysis, ongoing monitoring and Business Intelligence when the question requires internal data.
Start with the question
Start with the question, not the tool.
Choose the kind of question you need to explore. The choice guides the reading, but scope is agreed on the basis of facts and context.
Choose a type of question to highlight the related service. It is not an automatic recommendation.
Competitive Intelligence
Understand the moves, visible capabilities and positions of the players competing for your market.
Explore serviceMarket & Ecosystem Intelligence
See the structure of a market and the relationships that can open, or close, opportunities.
Explore serviceStrategic Intelligence
Examine expansion, investment or partnership decisions with hypotheses, alternatives and evidence.
Explore serviceIntelligence Operations
Keep watch on the signals that could change your strategic reading.
Explore serviceBusiness Intelligence
Connect internal data to questions of performance, efficiency and business direction.
Explore serviceOur perspective
Understand outside. Interpret inside.
Competitive Intelligence studies the competitive environment and its observable changes. Business Intelligence analyzes authorized internal data to understand performance. They complement each other, but they are not the same.
| Aspect | Focus · CoreCompetitive Intelligence | Complement · SupportBusiness Intelligence |
|---|---|---|
| Subject | The competitive environment and its observable changes. | The performance of the organization itself. |
| Sources | Public, licensed, interviews with disclosed identity. | Internal data authorized by the client. |
| Typical question | What is changing outside, and why does it matter? | What does our data show, and under which definition? |
| Result | A reading of the environment, scenarios and signals to follow. | Defined indicators and explained variances. |
Let’s discuss your next question
What do you need to understand before your next decision?
Tell us about the market, the competitive move or the opportunity you are trying to understand. We can help you frame the question and assess a suitable research scope.