Business complexity has increased dramatically, normality has been redefined to uncertainty, competition has increased to unprecedented levels, globalization has resulted in many more fierce and worthy competitors. With the explosion of global social media, customers have become empowered and much more demanding, customers are changing brands at unprecedented rates, social issues have now become a customer purchasing consideration. Major economic power shifts are occurring, GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) makes China the largest economy in the world by a wide margin. Increasing corporate tax rates and governmental regulations dramatically increases the complexity and cost of doing business. The life expectancy of companies continues to decrease, effective solutions are time sensitive, reliable up-to-date business intelligence, research and insight are vital to the success of companies and needed more than ever before.

In today’s world, CEOs and senior leaders are facing tough challenges and complex issues. The average life expectancy of companies continues to decrease, solid business research and intelligence are essential to making strategic business decisions. Our experience shows that many leaders make decisions without having all the information needed to make the most effective decisions. Making the effort needed to have all the correct information is imperative. Decisions need to be informed, measured and the timing of decisions is imperative. In times of disruption, leaders need to make bold decisions that create big impacts to change direction quickly when needed. Customers are complex, expectations and demands can change overnight making sustainable profitable growth complicated, in today's highly competitive business environment, this is a constant and never-ending struggle that organizations of all sizes face. Leaders must have a clear vision of market trends, customer needs, consumer opinions, competitor intentions, and possible disruptions before making strategic business decisions. Leaders need real time business and customer intelligence to make the best decisions. Real situation awareness and reliable business intelligence are the most important parameters to future success. Organizations need to continuously develop and analyze business intelligence to stay ahead of ever-changing customer needs and the competition to grow and create value for stakeholders. Gut feelings and assumptions are not enough to make strategic decisions in competitive environments and uncertain times. Research and intelligence are essential for the success of actionable strategies and solutions, research and intelligence should be considered as an investment in better outcomes.

Our exceptional consultants have decades of experience helping leaders make the tough decisions and overcome the toughest challenges. We provide the bold strategic vision, thought leadership, deep industry expertise, focused functional knowledge, and multiple outside perspectives leaders need to make the most informed decisions. Our exceptional researchers, business intelligence specialists, research and data scientists, and consultants in 125 countries work together to provide the research, insights, intelligence, analysis, and advice leaders need to seize industry-changing opportunities ahead of the competition to drive exceptional growth and create value for all stakeholders in any future. Our exceptional global teams of researchers and intelligence experts have their finger on the pulse of the ever-changing needs of customers, global situations that can affect organizations, and the ever-changing competitor tactics and strategies that competitors use to take away business from all other competitors.

Customer and competitor intelligence, global influences, and discovering initial phases of trends are extremely important factors in making strategic goals and objectives, and formulating strategies to capture new opportunities. Our exceptional global team of research and intelligence specialists are normally the first to spot changes and trends that change industries and markets. Big Data and Analytics are often misleading and are not enough to make the bold decisions needed for transformative change. Analytics alone do not include everything needed to make decisions that affect the future of stakeholders; the wrong interpretation of data can be devastating.

Our 10,600+ exceptional research and business intelligence specialists in 125 countries provide vital, customer and competitor intelligence; product research, business research, and business intelligence; and vital intelligence regarding potential business disruptions across all industries and geographies. Our business insights help keep our clients ahead of customer expectations, the competition, and potential disruptions to become and stay market and industry leaders. Our exceptional researchers in 125 countries with real-time intelligence work closely with our data and research scientists combining real-time local and global data and advanced analytics to get the real answers needed to identify opportunities and make industry-changing, future-defining decisions quickly. Our data scientists and consultants use our real situation assessment and real-world data to do predictive modeling to analyze various scenarios to find the most effective solutions for our clients. We help leaders turn insights, intelligence, and ideas into profitable business decisions and effective strategies to drive growth, create value and optimize business performance. Our global research team conducts many long-term ongoing studies including our in-depth study of the evolution of the life cycle of global entities (multinational companies) that our consultants use to develop effective sustainable solutions. The world’s leading companies call us to help formulate effective business intelligence strategies and sustainable solutions.

We do research, intelligence, and insight right, we provide a comprehensive view of the real situation and provide the real data to eliminate inefficiencies, drive change and quickly adapt to changing customer expectations and market or supply changes. Our decades of experience delivering insights to the world’s leading companies shows that our “Smart Insight Solution” of combining real-world data collected by our exceptional research and business intelligence (BI) teams on the streets in 125 countries, our advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) provides up to a ten-fold increase in the return on investment. Our “Smart Insight Solutions” empower leaders to make impactful decisions and bold moves to make the transformative change needed to become and stay industry and market leaders. We continuously update situations to keep our clients informed and ahead of change.

We provide complete corporate consulting services. Our enterprise solutions group helps the world’s largest organizations, we advise global leaders on their most critical issues and opportunities. We work with top executives, we provide an outside perspective and objective advice to help them make better decisions. We work with senior leaders to help convert decisions to actionable solutions to deliver the sustainable results they desire. We work with CEOs to manage corporate strategies and business portfolios to optimize enterprise value.

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