About
Specialized services in technology/competitive intelligence and industrial information brokerage. As an intelligence consultant, services can take the form of coaching for an organization’s intelligence unit to systematize the existing organic intelligence gathering processes within any company. Intervention can also be limited to one or more actions within a knowledge management process, also known as intelligence gathering or monitoring, such as defining intelligence targets, inventorying information sources useful to the company, and planning actions related to information gathering, sorting/classification, analysis, and synthesis. As an information broker, the consultant conducts professional information searches on an ad hoc basis, providing access to a range of specialized private databases and information sources.
- Strategic monitoring, priority areas, and business intelligence
- Patents, trademarks, and licenses
- Analysis and valuation of business data
- Technological/competitive monitoring
- Industrial information/intellectual property (patents, trademarks (as information sources))
- Internet (how to search to find better) specialized information sources (directories, associations, periodicals, conference summaries, trade fairs, market research, etc.)
- Support for a technology and competitive intelligence unit (coaching)
- Basic training to improve online search and find solutions
- Monitoring of patent and trademark portfolios
- Ad hoc information research
- Exploration of opportunities to transform industrial waste into inputs for another manufacturing company
- Technical specifications for electronic thermostats (energy savings)
- Search for North American suppliers of a bucket destacking device
- Inventory of suppliers and contractors specializing in mechanics, electricity, piping, and industrial heat exchangers for foreign investors considering the establishment of a factory in Quebec
- Search for Quebec subcontractors for gearboxes for an American manufacturer
- Seeking opportunities to repurpose company waste by transferring it to other companies in different sectors, where this waste can become a valuable resource.