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Quintessentially Secure provides a global strategic research and corporate intelligence service, dedicated to providing a unique range of support services to corporate and private clients.
Our intelligence capabilities are global, cross checked through public domain data, restricted source databases and a physical presence (in person) covering the full spectrum of markets.
Al of our intelligence services follow The "intelligence cycle" methodology. This being: Collection - Collation - Analysis - Dissemination of information.
Intelligence reports come in 3 formats for our clients:
- Brief - Concise report of immediate findings, on a specific subject, within 48 hours.
- Full - Detailed report including all available data on a subject, detailing all references and evidence to support the data collected.
- Advisory - This can follow either a brief or a full report, and includes our advice, guidance and educated best guesses, using the data we have collected. The purpose of the Advisory Report, is to allow our client(s) to make decisions, which are more informed, with likely outcomes predicated.
Quintessentially Secure has a team of in house experts, all of whom are fully trained and experienced at both the governmental and corporate levels,. We have dedicated access to sources of open and closed data and current information direct from the field (updated daily, hour by hour where required) in the fields of:
These fields are often confused, mislabeled or fused.
Quintessentially Secure has therefore very clear strategic services, with proven methodologies and protocols for each. A description of each of these services, is given below.
In summary, whoever the client and whatever the need, the value of Intelligence in any context is best summed up by the motto of the United Kingdom Intelligence Corps (Army):
"Manui Dat Cognitio Vires" - Knowledge gives strength to the arm
Definitions of our Corporate Intelligence consultancy services:
This is best described as is the highest and most comprehensive form of legal, ethical open source intelligence.
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is an information processing discipline that involves finding, selecting, and acquiring information from publicly available sources and analyzing it to produce actionable intelligence. In the Intelligence Community (IC), the term "open" refers to overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or classified sources).
The skill with commercial intelligence, as with the " 4 stage intelligence cycle" in general - Collection - Collation - Analysis - Dissemination, is in having not only the ability to reach out, look through and analyze the data, but in having subject matter experts in every industry available to create an intelligent report based in the needs of a specific client.
A broad definition of Competitive Intelligence is the action of gathering, analyzing, and applying information about products, domain constituents, customers, and competitors for the short term and long term planning needs of an organization.
Competitive Intelligence (CI) is both a process and a product. The process of collecting, storing and analyzing information about a competitive arena, results in the actionable output of intelligence required by a client at a specific time.
Note that:
- Competitive Intelligence is an ethical and legal business practice. (This is important as CI professionals emphasize that the discipline is not the same as industrial espionage which is both unethical and usually illegal).
- The focus is on the external business environment.
- There is a process involved in gathering information, converting it into intelligence and then utilizing this in business decision making. CI professionals emphasize that if the intelligence gathered is not usable (or actionable) then it is not intelligence.
Business intelligence (BI) refers to skills, knowledge, technologies, applications, quality, risks, security issues and practices used to help a business to acquire a better understanding of market behavior and commercial context.
Iit undertakes the collection, integration, analysis, interpretation and presentation of business information. By extension, "business intelligence" refers to the collected information itself or the explicit knowledge developed from the information.
BI applications provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations, most often using data already gathered into a data warehouse and occasionally working from operational data. Software elements support the use of this information by assisting in the extraction, analysis, and reporting of information.
Common functionality of business intelligence applications includes reporting, OLAP, analytics, dashboards, scorecards, data mining, corporate performance management (CPM), and predictive analysis.
Business intelligence — the term dates at least to 1958 — aims to support better business decision-making.
Market research often refers to either primary or secondary. In secondary research, the company uses information compiled from various sources which appears applicable to a new or existing product.
The advantages of secondary research are that it is relatively cheap and easily accessible. Disadvantages of secondary research are that it is often not specific to your area of research and the data used can be biased and difficult to validate.
Primary market research involves quantative research such as focus groups, surveys, field tests, interviews or observation, conducted or tailored specifically to that product. Primary research is useful for finding new information and getting customers views on products.
Advantages are that it provides up to date, relevant and specific information to your product. The disadvantages are that it is expensive to collect, time consuming and needs a large sample size to be accurate.
See our board of advisors for details of the backgrounds of some of our consultants and agents.
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