A competitive audit or competitor audit is an essential part of competitive intelligence. It involves a complete assessment of your competition through notes of their products, branding, content, features, and benefits.
After successfully serving a leading global medical device company in different segments to stay abreast of their close competitors through extensive competitive (CI) monitoring, Evalueserve was internally recommended to their orthopedic department to conduct customized competitive intelligence programs in the orthopedic space on Insightsfirst.
The COVID-19 crisis has taken various forms across the world and presented remarkable differences in performance within different industries. Some sectors that are dependent on human interaction, such as the cultural and creative industries have experienced substantial hits and were expected to take longer to recover.
Identifying your competition is the first step to understanding your competition – this can help you avoid pitfalls and provide you with advantages that can make your stand tall above the others.
In a rapidly changing business landscape, it’s more important than ever to have a comprehensive and effective competitive intelligence program. But
As market headwinds pick up speed in the post-Covid phase, bankers and analysts at boutique advisory firms are busy in keeping the ball rolling under high volume of M&A deals. With the increasing volume of deals, many bankers are spending a lot of time on unstructured data of private companies, one of them being franchise companies.
As a result of global economic meltdown of 2007-2008, the US Senate passed the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, targeting banks and mortgage lenders among other financial institutions for stringent regulations.
An International CPG firm had been struggling to take timely business decisions as it could not stay abreast of its competitors’ activities and dynamic market trends.
In a constantly evolving Asset & Wealth Management industry, the client wanted to have a comprehensive view on the digital financial planning, advice, guidance and educational resources/tools that competitors provide and benchmark them with their own capabilities to identify the gaps and subsequently address these gaps.
A Fortune 100 Financial Services firm offering investment, advice and retirement solution wanted to analyze value proposition and differentiation strategies of key competitors’ and identify implications to their evolving strategy and value proposition.
A top-tier US-based asset management firm was concerned about its distorting core brand positioning & value and hence wanted to assess competitors’ marketing strategies and product promoting campaigns to revamp its strategic roadmap so as to strengthen its core brand positioning and to retain a strong competitive edge in its core space.
In rapid and fast evolving Asset & Wealth Management industry, the client wanted to have a comprehensive product benchmarking across capabilities to identify the gaps and subsequently address these gaps by zeroing in on the most critical capabilities.
Evalueserve has been helping a global manufacturer in the energy-storage industry in building and managing a cloud-based portal that assembled competitive information, created briefs on leading companies and assessed market changes that helped to fill in blind spots and complement their understanding of emerging trends.
Understanding competitor motivations and behaviors help shape product development, pricing, brand positioning, and more. The key is to identify challenges, advantages, and white spaces to build a strategy that creates competitive differentiation.
It’s unsurprising that a “perfect storm” of catastrophe has had a significant impact on corporate profits and service continuity. How then should businesses change and adapt their procurement and supply chain processes to better future-proof their operations?
June 7, 2022
We will explore how KPMG turbocharged its competitive intelligence to assist multiple teams across the world and enable clients to create better-informed strategies to outpace competitors.
Moving from tactical to strategic competitor benchmarking for improved outcomes. Learn more about Evalueserve’s Anticipate the Competitor framework for streamlined strategic competitor benchmarking.
A competitive win/loss analysis is a thorough discovery process that enables companies to dive deep into their customers’ motivations and objections. It reveals the true reasons behind a purchase, or behind the decision not to buy something.
Procurement and supply chain officials are seeking data-driven decision-makers and AI-powered insights to optimize their strategies.
Evalueserve implemented our AI-powered competitive intelligence program, Insightsfirst, for a specialty chemicals client.
A comprehensive and successful competitive intelligence program needs to achieve 5 different components to provide the highest value.
One way to lessen the burden on the competitive intelligence team and increase their efficiency is through artificial intelligence. Companies can pair AI with human intelligence to improve their CI efforts.
A prominent international consulting firm recognized the power of staying one step ahead in the race for digital dominance. To elevate their marketing strategy, they aimed to analyze their competition’s social media footprints and gain valuable insights into their success.
All departments and stakeholders need to integrate competitive intelligence into their remit, including market research, product development, C-suite, sales, marketing, procurement, fulfillment, and more.
Price-setting used to be an art, a skill derived from years of industry experience, intuition and hard-bought competitive business intelligence. In 2022, it has become a science.
A Big Four accounting and advisory firm implemented Evalueserve’s Insightsfirst platform because they wanted to enable insights generation related to competitors, their thought leadership, and relevant news.
To establish a level of success for a particular marketing intelligence strategy, market leaders need to look at the market insights that those strategies provide.
Business leaders have been forced to rejig their portfolio strategy, revamp office operations – work from home, hybrid, or flexible work set-up – and chart out diversified investment plans.
We’ve broken down the kind of data you might source into seven thematic strands. Each of these subjects presents unique insights that your content creation teams can use.
Data is king in big business nowadays, and competitive intelligence data is the gold standard. The data analytics industry was worth $215.7 billion in 2021, according to Statista.
The world today is more dynamic and faster than ever. With information changing and updating every minute, there’s no secret that knowledge is critical for business. The trend applies to every industry, niche, business, and sector.
AI has been the catalyst in driving data into decisions.
Bridge the data overload gap to make better decisions now. Do you want to make better decisions from your data? You must cross the data analytics chasm to get results. According to Gartner, only 20% of analytical insights deliver business outcomes.
Global Healthcare Market – 2021 It’s been over 16 months since the start of the pandemic, and we are still fighting
Establishing an efficient and successful competitive intelligence (CI) program is no small feat. There are many elements a successful CI program
Competitive Intelligence (CI) gives sales teams critical information surrounding competitors, markets, and customers, which are all key factors when making strategic decisions.
All businesses want a competitive edge. It’s hard to gain one and even harder to maintain one.
Learn how Competitive Intelligence with the right tools can better optimize your business solutions.
With the digital revolution came a rise in demand for insights teams that are dedicated to monitoring data on the market, competitor strategies, supply chain disruptions, and more.
Competitive Insights help different teams turbocharge data-backed outcomes, learn how.
There’s so much you could do for your business with CI, today from tracking competitors, building impactful messaging and more.
Competitive Intelligence uses data-driven decisions to deliver success, learn why you need CI for your business.
Evaluate your competitive landscape with these easy-to-use templates for industry landscapes, growth matrix, and competitive segmentation and comparison.
CI helps companies to gain competitive advantage, by catering to your specific needs with actionable intelligence.
Learn how CI tactics provide businesses an accurate course of action to gain a competitive advantage in their respective market or industry.
Let’s discuss key trends, key challenges and rising questions about EdTech industry & how Evalueserve can help.
25 industry professionals share their experiences in professional services firms that utilize competitive intelligence.
All consulting firms have a matrix structure with their operations organized around a cluster of clients, such as a sector group.
June 15, 2021
Most companies continue to be unsuccessful in turning the increasingly abundant data into RoI-driving decisions.
A leading design software provider wanted to have a competitive intelligence system that enabled its product development and strategy teams to have real-time insights and information on its key competitors.
Q&A with Abhishek Shukla, the Upstream Oil & Gas sector leader at Evalueserve with 14 years of experience.
A Big 4 Advisory Firm had trouble making timely decisions since they couldn’t strategically track what their key accounts/clients were doing and what the firm leadership was focusing on.
April 27, 2021
The ever-growing dry powder and chronic situation of too many hands chasing too few deals is making it increasingly important to identify proprietary opportunities.
In this blog, our two speakers discuss the current state of AI and industry expertise within the competitive intelligence field, tactics for building a successful competitive intelligence program, and the future of AI and industry knowledge, and how it impacted competitive intelligence.
Competition in the private equity game has continued to heat-up over the past few years as more capital has flowed in, leading to higher prices for fewer deals.
In 2020, the global mining industry witnessed only one-third the number of M&A deals it had signed a year ago.
April 14, 2021
Digital technologies are key tools that can help businesses become leaner and more efficient.
Competitive Intelligence is nothing new to businesses and its importance in business function and decisions is increasing year to year.
Mar 10, 2021
As the uncertainty continues on the impact and duration of the Covid-19 outbreak, more and more organizations are looking to redefine their digital strategy to drive sales in the post-COVID world.
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A global asset manager needed our help with creating a comprehensive and real-time solution for their product team that would support their key functions of market monitoring, innovation scouting, and strategic planning.
In this edition of the series, we put Satyajit Saha, Vice President and Head of Products for Professional Services in the spotlight and learn what competitive intelligence teams should expect in the new normal, what brings the most value, and what they should be investing in now.
4 main pitfalls that organizations fall into when using competitive intelligence, and ways to side-step them.
Are organizations getting the most out of their competitive intelligence platforms?
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SCIP’s IntelliCon Virtual Conference is the premier place to learn how to take your intelligence to the next level.
Technology sector has significantly outperformed most other sectors.
The Investment Management industry has witnessed secular changes in structure, pricing, and asset flows.
What is causing the bottleneck for professional services firms?
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The client wanted to improve their overall process for creating factsheets from the bottom up.
Supply chain optimization was already a key priority for several corporations, but after COVID-19, it has taken a whole new meaning.
Organizations are looking to build resilience and additional capabilities to maintain their competitive advantage and stay ahead of the game.
Based on their current structure, independent sponsors face several inherent challenges, which could arise from a lack of manpower or tight deadlines. They need to undertake several basic activities, such as building contact lists or creating investment memorandum, that prevent them from focusing on networking and building relationships.
Facebook surprised the market by announcing its intention to launch Libra, a new global currency powered by blockchain technology.
In the wake of the global pandemic, organizations find themselves hungry for information. While there is a barrage of information available,
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As Covid-19 continues to spread, the burden of disease has been asymmetrically distributed, as countries find themselves at different stages of the pandemic.
Historically, the technology industry has been vulnerable to disruptive events that led to recession and economic crisis.
The global economy is heading towards a contraction in 2020, rattling markets and triggering credit stress across the globe.
Professional services firms strive to create a lean and efficient business development function.
How often do you find yourself or your team members tied up in essential but repetitious tasks?
The growth and change of market research (MR) is happening at an accelerated pace.
Staying ahead of competitors in an everchanging landscape, is something that many organizations find themselves struggling with.
In today’s world, sector convergence is broadly analogous to Schumpeter’s creative destruction, in creating new opportunities and value clusters across sectors.
Cognitive technology has the power to change the way we do business profoundly and transform the way procurement professionals approach their work.
Evalueserve provides a dedicated offshore research desk for a leading third-party global logistics firm’s competitive and market intelligence (CMI) team.
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