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IBIS™ is the South African leader in Business and Competitive Intelligence (CI).

We offer our clients flexibility and customisation in order to provide a service that best fits their needs albeit research and analysis projects, ad hoc research, tracking and scanning, CI systems design and training or serving as an outsourced CI capability.

IBIS™ had created unique software solutions to enhance its clients’ capabilities even further through key information management techniques.

We partner with our clients and assist them in making long-term projections and reach strategic decisions. We equip our clients with the ability to address and face changes and challenges in order to develop an understanding of the future competitive environment.

• Agriculture
• Mining
• Manufacturing
• Food & Beverage
  
• Electricity, gas and water supply
• Construction
• Wholesale and retail trade
• Transport
• Financial and business services
• Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s)
• Information and communication Technology(ICT)

Our continuous intelligence tracking and scanning service enables our clients to remain informed on their current competitive business environment and remain alert about emerging threats and opportunities in their competitive environment.

For this, we use StratScan^®, a unique South African developed web-based business intelligence application and intelligence portal that is used for organising, storing, analysing and disseminating information about a company’s evolving business environment.

StratScan^® enables users to generate customised intelligence reports and alerts on any topic in its database and to circulate it by means of e-mail’s in an HTML format to selected persons.

• Visually structure a company’s competitive environment and approach to vital information
• Log all the bits and pieces of competitive information that become available from internal and external sources
• Tag information for inclusion in analysis models such as SWOT, Porter’s Five Forces, Growth Models and Comparison Models
• Regulate access to each bit of information in the database
• Conduct searches in the database
• Define and track events in the competitive environment
• Compare companies and products
• Involve all relevant persons to share and contribute competitive information
• Initiate alerts to persons who have to react to important events
• Create groups for collaboration
• Manage information tasking
• Retrieve relevant information when required
• Determine sensitivity access levels to participants
• Link an unlimited number of persons to participate in and collaborate with business or competitive intelligence
• Create a holistic view on a company’s defined competitive environment
• Access relevant information submitted to the system recently
• Forward alerts to designated persons in the organisation
• Store intelligence products in the database
• Create links for easy access to pre-defined Internet-based information sources

Competitive Intelligence (CI)

• Designing, developing and establishing tailor-made CI capabilities for companies and organisations
• Identifying Key Intelligence Needs: Assisting top management in strategic decision-making need assessments and prioritising the company’s Key Intelligence Needs (KIN’s)
• Unique training programs presented by experts to top management, CI managers, management and employees in all aspects of CI
• CI Audits
• CI Management Support
• CI Analysis
• Industry Analysis
• Competitor Analysis
• Macro-environmental Analysis
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Trends Analysis

Research Solutions

Marketing research is required to assist with decision-making about customers, competitors and the market.  The types of questions answered include, but are not limited, to the following:

• What is taking place in the market in terms of trends and/or competitors?
• What are consumers’ perceptions regarding products within the market?
• Are products, currently on the market, meeting the needs of consumers?

Our marketing expertise includes assisting organisations to develop new and existing markets, both local and export, by conducting various activities such as market research and effective marketing planning.  Activities undertaken include Export Market Research, Marketing Plans, Marketing and Sales Audits and Surveys.

Security risk assessments and audits

Security risk assessments and audits as performed by IBIS™are based on the analysis of security-related threats against premises and individuals.  Since this analysis is the starting point of the security risk evaluation process, it also includes an examination of crime-related incidents in order to determine trends and patterns.  Besides the threat analysis, the approach includes analysing processes followed in the particular company or business concern to determine the security input on each activity.  The rationale is that crime occurs because of deficiencies in operational processes, security procedures and practices, which are exploited by the culprits, be it own personnel or outsiders.  Security should therefore be designed to prevent, or at least minimise, a recurrence of these incidents.

IBIS™ Risk Assessment and Profiling in association with Integrity International (Psychometric Development) delivers tailor-made consultancy services to clients. The uniqueness of the products and services is that its focus is integrity, it is risk orientated and it is developed for the Southern African market.

Integrity forms an integral part of our human existence as individuals, but more so co-existing and functioning in a corporate environment. Mostly we ignore its existence or underestimate its value in our lives. It facilitates and guides the co-existence of the population as well as establishing commercial relationships over international borders in the growing global village we live in.

Regardless of what you do in business, you need the capable and devoted support of other people to reach your goals. In choosing these people, at least three qualities are important: ability, attitude and integrity.

University-level Competitive Intelligence Courses

• Strategic and Competitive Analysis
• CI Mentorship
• Global Exports Workshops