Conquer Your Competition By Mapping Their Exploits

A company lives or dies by the actions of its competitors. Competitive intelligence is pro-active, not reactive. It anticipates industry trends by developing and effectively communicating strategic and tactical implications of competitive /environmental/ political/economic and demographic issues affecting companies through the systematic capture and analysis of critical business information from both publicly available secondary data and primary research. Our Competitive Intelligence Division maintains global databases, analysts, and researchers whose sole job is to detect the rapidly changing events that can impact a your business in real time.

Each project is client specific. It is based on the purpose of the intelligence. Is the focus a specific competitor’s product or marketing plan? Do you intend to enter an emerging industry and must know the competitive landscape? Is your own company’s information being raided? Does your company intend to expand to Asia and you must know the laws, specific customs, the black markets to beware of, and the customs to compete?

We do not just provide you random bits if data. We convert it into strategic knowledge, create White Papers and propose initiatives. We provide key decision makers a 360º strategic vantage point in their competitive battlefield, providing information about competitors' plans and activities to support strategic development, planning, and sales efforts.

By obtaining and analyzing certain data, and sifting it through specific methodologies, we create a tapestry of strategically important information to empower decision-makers with forward thinking tools. Industry dynamics, competitors’ threats, pricing, revenue, headcount, raiding activities, growth, capabilities, future strategic goals, marketing, global positioning and politics and financial positioning are just some of the pieces of this tapestry. We don’t stop at researching technologies, products and politics that may compete directly with your company. We monitor all components that may threaten your business. Montano & Associates International Investigations is a member of, and strongly abides by, the Code of Ethics set for by the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE TRAINING

We provide onsite training and division development tailored for your company, working with your staff and designed around your environment. Whether you seek to have one staff member provide your company with part-time intelligence, or create an extensive division operating 24/7, we can develop your internal competitive intelligence department to meet your needs. Thereafter, we can provide technical support and on-going intelligence support on an as needed basis.

Competitive Intelligence Training.

Our clients have benefited from in-house consulting and tailor-made training on a wide-variety of subjects including:

• Developing an internal Competitive Intelligence (“CI”) Division
• Setting clear objectives of CI and scheduled reevaluation deadlines
• Evaluating best systems to disseminate competitive information
• Developing cross-functional communication between groups.
• Defending your company against counter-Competitive Intelligence efforts.
• Teaching management skills needed in running of a Competitive Intelligence unit.
• Performing primary and secondary research.
• Business Information Resources
• Interviewing Skills
• Developing and understanding an intelligence focus for your project
• Legal and ethical compliance.
• Selecting and training your CI staff.
• Showing management the bottom-line impact of Competitive Intelligence.
• Managing outside intelligence research and consulting services.
• Connecting intelligence with strategy and implementation.