"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