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EBR MARKET INTELLIGENCE

Understanding your marketplace is critical to your business success. Where is your market headed? What are your competitors doing? Decisionmakers need to be able to confidently answer multiple questions about the global marketplace simultaneously. How to capture and analyze all the information needed to answer those questions is a major challenge to the business decisionmaker.

EBR combines expertise from the commercial, military, and government sectors in our market intelligence solutions. EBR is at the forefront of maximizing the fundamental elements of team work, decisionmaking, and organizational agility with our expertise in the best practices of market intelligence collection and analysis. This unique combination provides our clients with the tools and information that they need to anticipate change and harness innovation to succeed in the market.

Make Better Business Decisions

Understanding comes from the effective synthesis of a broad mix of sources, tools, and methods. EBR brings this intelligence matrix together in the War Room. The collaborative analysis and decisionmaking environment is described in The WarRoom Guide to Competitive Intelligence. The War Room approach leverages EBR's expertise in decisionmaking and market intelligence to drive your critical decisions.

In EBR's War Room, commercial customers have access to a suite of market and competitive intelligence solutions to help them understand and exploit the dynamics of their industries. Our solutions integrate standard and custom intelligence offerings, such as:
  • Quarterback Targeted Primary Intelligence. Unleash the power of primary intelligence by utilizing the methodology outlined in The WarRoom Guide to Competitive Intelligence. Targeted primary intelligence will help you get the specific answers to your most critical business questions.

  • Industry Landscape. EBR leverages standard and custom analytical tools, including benchmarking, Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats (SWOT), multiple market development scenarios, and warning sign analysis to deliver a complete real-time situational understanding to industry decisionmakers.

  • Best Practices in Internet Research. Internet research can be like finding a needle in a stack of needles. Let EBR teach your own analysts how to make the most of the Internet, deep Web, and new technologies with EBR's proven methodologies. Alternatively let EBR build an intelligence collection framework for you. To learn more, see:
    RSS: The CI Professional's Best Friend by August Jackson
    Fusion of Open Source Information
    by Dr. David Noble

  • Automated OSINT Database. The world of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) can sometimes overwhelm enterprise intelligence efforts. EBR automates collection and applies sophisticated tools and methods to extract key intelligence data from unstructured text to populate a structured intelligence database, which facilitates advanced analytical techniques. This database goes far beyond clipping services and populates data directly into advanced analytical tools that leverage cluster analysis, visualization, link analysis, social networks, timelines, and many other analytical methods to quickly evaluate a broad industry landscape.

    Read our article in Competitive Intelligence Magazine:
    "Putting the System Back into Early Warning."


  • Internal Corporate Intelligence Network. Sometimes the best source for market and competitor intelligence resides within your own organization. EBR creates internal intelligence networks within your own enterprise, integrating knowledge from marketing, sales, product development, legal, human resources, and others. Leverage new hires, sales engagements, and trade show participation for the purpose of intelligence. Tools such as email, newsletters, and weblogs extend the reach of an internal intelligence network.

  • Tactical Intelligence for Sales and Marketing. When you need specific pieces of intelligence to win the deal, EBR can help. Get the information you need to win, as well as understand the best way to apply it for the best marketing or sales success. EBR will work with you to find the answers you need and then incorporate them into your tactical activities.

  • Win/Loss Analysis. Accentuate the positive by understanding and building upon the things that win business and overcoming the obstacles that stand in your way to sales success. EBR can help you assess your sales resources and customer responsiveness to your company.

  • Team Collaboration. Help team leaders and members understand the fundamental reasons why they achieve success or why it may elude them. EBR's Collaboration Advizor software tool allows for the anonymous collection of the perceptions of each team member to evaluate the team's performance along key criteria for successful teams. Once you've identified the issues impacting your team, let EBR help you address them.

For more information on EBR Business Services, contact us at:
business@ebrinc.com or 1-703-893-6800.
 



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