Competitive Intelligence Consulting

Today’s business environment is characterized by rapid and at times surprising change. Companies have to be alert to changes and events in their competitive business space, make sense of it, and act accordingly. At its most fundamental level, intelligence provides an awareness of the current marketplace drivers and competitive forces that are facing a company or organization. Without CI playing a role in the broader decision-making process, companies are inhibited in their means to deal with new threats and to exploit current opportunities. At the same time, intelligence teams must remain cautious not to be spread too thin and serve too many different priorities. Best-in-class CI teams around the world identify primary priorities to expand their internal capabilities and subsequent value to the firm.

CI Services

Central to our service is the development and implementation of a CI strategy and process to ensure that it is embedded in a company’s corporate strategy.These include elements such as:

  • Competitive Intelligence Readiness Assessments.
  • Identification of Key Intelligence Topics (KITs).
  • CI process development.
  • Enabling adequate research approaches in the analytical process.
  • CI taxonomy design to enable effective competitive knowledge repositories.
  • Development of Early Warning Systems (EWS) underpinned by organisational sensemaking frameworks.Business Counter Intelligence and operational security (OPSEC).

Implementation Approach

The methodology Suritec applies in Competitive Intelligence interventions is based on an action learning approach. This approach ensures that the intelligence process is embedded in organizational practice leading to improved organizational effectiveness. The emphasis during interventions is skills transfer into client organizations to ensure sustainability. Furthermore our CI Diagnostic provides a mechanism for the identification of metrics to monitor performance of Competitive Intelligence Systems.

Please email us at info@suritec.co.za for more information.