Evidence Platform

CIS’ Evidence Platform provides our clients with access to ‘best in class’ evidence gathering methodologies:

  • Secondary Intelligence Gathering:

    Exhaustive and meticulous secondary intelligence gathering:

    • Published data from hard to locate public domain sources
    • Deep web analysis
    • Local country data, sourced and analyzed by our multi-lingual analysts (EMEA, LATAM and Asia Pacific)
    • Access to both global and country level databases
    • Competitor reports and accounts and other filings at a country level
    • Industry reports and journals
    • Technical publications
    • Individual patent filings and patent databases
    • Local government and agency reports and filings
    • Local and national press databases
    • Filings at individual manufacturing site level including detailed site plans, planning applications, building permits, and environmental reports
    • Social media (blogs, networking sites)

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  • Primary Intelligence Gathering:
    • Proven primary elicitation expertise:
      • Highly detailed intelligence sourced from competitor senior level sources at a local, regional and HQ level
      • Multiple source targeting in order to validate intelligence
      • Interviews with competitor’s suppliers, distributors, partners, customers and others with direct contact or knowledge of its operations
      • Industry analysts, brokers analysts and KOL interviews
      • Market interviews with local associations and agencies
    • In-depth telephone and face-to-face interviewing methodologies
    • Evidence from Competitor Site Visits
    • Evidence from Local Area Visits

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  • Conference/Trade Show Coverage:
    • Discreet attendance of industry events by CIS’ executives on behalf of clients
    • Excellent forum for face-to-face intelligence gathering from multiple competitor and industry executives
    • Competitor marketing collateral collection

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CIS is an evidence-driven consultancy. All of our consulting programs are supported by current in-depth and validated data and information from both published and non-public domain sources. As a result, we believe that we are able to provide more reliable and insightful recommendations and conclusions than regular consultancies.

Our key differentiator is our primary elicitation capability, which enables us to provide detailed insight into competitors’ current capabilities and future strategies. We adopt a multi-pronged approach to primary research; targeting numerous sources within both competitor and industry organizations at a very senior level, triangulating and validating all the intelligence obtained. As a result, the evidence is of a high confidence level, providing our clients with confirmed, actionable insight.