Services: Competitive Intelligence

Think for a minute about the many ways your company monitors internal performance, sales reports, balance sheets, R&D reports, inventory updates and more.

Now compare this with how your company monitors external industry activity. Is your outward-looking analysis as robust as your internal performance metrics? Do you have a concerted effort to forecast future developments that anticipate likely activity in coming months? Repeatedly, we find, many organizations do not have time to address such issues.

Yet, the most dramatic threats and opportunities come from outside your company.

Outward Insights offers a variety of services and solutions to help gain early warning of external threats and opportunities so you can preempt and seize, rather than react, to market changes.

Competitive Intelligence Executive Coaching Center™ [Login]

An industry first, we offer the Coaching Center which includes regular access to both an Outward Insights consultant and a password-protected website replete with CI best practices and cutting edge collaborative IT tools. A yearly subscription is a significant value as it provides the benefits of customized consulting at a fraction of the cost. Furthermore, since we remain in the background as your trusted advisor, you can shine within your organization concurrent with building your skills and expertise. Available when you need it, our expertise can guide you through your most challenging, high-visibility projects in real time.  Details. 

CI Consulting

More and more, companies are realizing the need for a robust, intelligence function. However, developing and designing one that reflects the unique nature of your company's culture, organization, strategy and objectives can be challenging. Outward Insights has designed dozens of high-performance CI functions, and we know what works - and what doesn't - in effective CI programs. Whether you start with an intensive needs and capabilities assessment - in which we design and deliver a turn-key intelligence function suitable for your organization - or a short CI diagnostic assessment, Outward Insights will pinpoint what your organization needs to establish and maintain a world-class intelligence function. In all our engagements, our recommendations are guided by decades of utilizing CI best practices and real-world experience in building and improving corporate intelligence systems. Details

CI Training & Education

Public education courses can be helpful if you're seeking an introduction to CI, however not sufficient if you plan to use CI as a strategic business tool. For the more advanced practitioner looking to expand his/her knowledge base, we offer on-site, customized training in all facets of CI. Highly customized to answer your most pressing issues, the session(s) include an emphasis on analysis and delivery techniques for a senior-level executive audience. Cost-effective, particularly for multiple participants, our courses enable your company's CI practitioners to learn new skills, develop a shared tool kit, and team-build around a common specialty. Details

Security Threat Analysis

Unlike traditional risk management, which focuses narrowly on the financial ramifications of volatility, we help our clients protect their most vital assets by applying intelligence analysis tradecraft to identifying and anticipating direct threats to their facilities and infrastructure.  Combining elements of early warning, intelligence analysis, and threat assessment, Outward Insights helps government agencies build and maintain a robust security threat analysis capability.  We equip intelligence and security analysts with the tools and methods they require to provide timely and actionable warning on security threats that can impact their organizations’ infrastructure, personnel, and facilities around the world. Details