Below is a post from ISR Intelligence Solutions Facebook Page. This is a great example of the utilization of GIS to depict  the locations and density of a certain business. This is excellent work, but with a little further analysis, this can be used as a very powerful Competitive Intelligence Product for this Industry. This is an example of the type of analysis ISR can provide for your company.

We are pleased to announce that ISR Intelligence Solutions, LLC is now a licensed private detective agency in the State of New Jersey. We support attorneys, law firms, insurance companies and individuals with various types of private investigative support. We look forward to providing the best possible investigative service to our clients. We will be re-organizing and soon posting some really interesting things about private investigations in New Jersey. 

     Establishing your business area of operations (where it will conduct operations) and its area of interest (areas outside the business area of operations) that can influence your business operations is vitally important.
Doing so focuses your internal or outsourced intelligence functions on providing your business the information and intelligence it needs to make fully informed decisions. Many may overlook the importance of the area of interest and its ability to positively or negatively impact your business in its area of operation. The key to obtaining the best information and actionable intelligence is by maintaining a close and constant communication  flow of information between senior leaders or staff sections and the intelligence section that supports them.

Robert D. Jenkins

     As a business, it is vitally important to develop an intelligence capability either internally or through outsourcing, and to ensure that it is focused on answering the most important pieces of information that are needed by senior leaders in order to make decisions. When done correctly, integrated and layered intelligence provides situational awareness that supports and unifies every aspect of a business toward a common operational picture and situational understanding of the business environment in which the company seeks to thrive. It provides not only advanced warning of threats, but advanced warning of opportunity as well. The application of intelligence and analytical principles to provide the necessary information and intelligence is as much an art as it is a science. It helps to develop sound and feasible strategic and operational plans that are feasible and suitable, with risks mitigated as much as possible. 

Robert D. Jenkins

"Opportunity often comes crashing over the bow" is a famous quote by Peter Drucker. During times of uncertainty,  when a business opportunity of a lifetime comes crashing over the bow, how do you evaluate the opportunity, and the your ability to react fast enough to turn the opportunity into a viable business? Do you go with a your instincts, or do you evaluate the opportunity in a systematic and complete approach to ensure that you don't overlook and mitigate the threats to the business opportunity? A unified and consolidated intelligence effort can quickly help you determine if the opportunity is a viable one, whose opportunity is worth the risk and expenditure of funds. 
     Our company specializes in competitive intelligence, market intelligence, and strategic assessments. We utilize multiple processes and systems to produce a customized, multi-disciplined product for our client. We are intelligence specialists and can conduct Ad hoc intelligence at your discretion on unique topics. We help to "enable informed decisions".  When opportunity crashes over the bow, and you need immediate intelligence support so that you can fully understand the opportunity, the environment, the weaknesses and the threats - we are here to help. Whether it's providing an intelligence capability that your company lacks, or augmenting and existing capability to increase turn around time, we are here to help. 

Robert D. Jenkins

"If you know your enemy and yourself, and you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles" - Sun Tzu
     This famous quote, is as accurate today as it was thousands of years ago. This statement is as applicable to business as it is to warfare. As a business, you probably know yourself and the industry very well. (or at least you should - your strengths and your weaknesses) You should have very good situational awareness and understanding of the terrain and climate of the area in which you seek to conduct business (or do battle so to speak). Understanding your enemy, or competitor, is the key to making fully informed decisions that will have the maximum effectiveness for your business. When conducting intelligence, it is important to maintain your eyes on the key internal indicators that make your business effective and profitable. However, a multi-disciplined intelligence initiative can help to clear the uncertainty that exists in the business area, and provide a solid foundation for near term and strategic plans. Business is like warfare, filled with uncertainty, with a fluid and very dynamic battlefield, that is constantly changing. Maintaining situational awareness of all the factors that can create risk or opportunity, is the key to seizing the initiative and exploiting opportunity while minimizing risk. 

Robert Jenkins

Competitive Intelligence is a fairly expensive undertaking for any size company. Hiring employees with experience in the field is an expensive undertaking, training programs for new or experienced analysts are expensive, access to computer programs, data-bases and equipment is also a fairly large expense. For the large companies, this is not an issue. For Start-up companies, and small to medium sized businesses, the expense of starting your own intelligence section can be a very expensive and enduring expense. Outsourcing your intelligence needs, can save your company money, and yet provide you with the same or even better intelligence and analysis than if it were performed in-house. Intelligence and analysis is one of the big differences that set the large companies apart from the small to medium sized businesses. Access to quality information, and intelligence enables fully informed decisions by senior management. Outsourcing intelligence services, to produce products either periodically or only when needed can save a company a large amount of money. /intelligenceanalytical-forum.html