CONSULTING

Intelligence and Strategy are inseparable.

 

Strategy or decision requirements define the intelligence priorities and tasks. While a continuous stream of intelligence or insights support major executive decisions and plans.

 

Beyond intelligence reports, Actelligos helps companies accelerate the use of intelligence to stimulate market or competitor behaviour in realtime - and into the future. Our WarGames and Scenario programs draw out critical implications from the intelligence, and have a bias for action to capitalize on opportunities or thwart impending threats.

 

Furthermore, many organizations see the value in having an in-house intelligence capability to support strategic and market decisions. Actelligos can provide the framework, training and process to build proactive intelligence teams.

 

INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT

Around 95% of the world's top companies have an intelligence department, team, function, or manager. Actelligos can help companies build a bespoke in-house market or competitive intelligence unit that will support critical business decisions.

 

 

BUSINESS WARGAMES & SIMULATIONS

Launching a new product? Entering unchartered waters? Technology shifts creating havoc on your strategy? Competition enticing away your customers? All these, and more, happening at the same time?

Business decisions are never easy to make. Too much attention on a specific competitor exposes the company to other players. Prioritizing a particular product-market segment leaves other areas exposed. Strategy decisions impact Marketing, which in turn affect Sales, which also concerns Operations, then worries Finance.

 

When multiple factors impact a business, multiple minds are needed to solve the problem. Even with an abundance of intelligence and insights, drawing out an appropriate action or response requires a simultaneous consideration of the business factors, market forces and competitive pressures. This is a task that will require a coordinated analytical process involving the best brains in the company - your own executives and managers.

 

Actelligos brings together:

• real-time intelligence on markets, competition and other external factors,
• internal data provided by the company, and
• executives, managers and analysts

... in a facilitated workshop to:

• simulate market behaviour and competitor actions,
• test-fly company plans & strategies, and
• draw out key implications and learning

 

This is a rigorous exercise that is both intellectual and practical. Because it uses actual data and intelligence, we are able to simulate the current and emerging business environment as realistically as possible.

 

Besides, it is okay to lose in a wargame, since it doesn't involve real money yet. But the lesson gained from a business simulation might just mean the difference between failure and success in the real world.

 

 

SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT & PLANNING

The business landscape has been changing significantly over the last 20 years. We have seen the rise and fall of many market leaders. Shifts in technology and market demographics have wiped out market share and revenues of some incumbents while creating great fortunes for new players. Some of the dominant companies today, like Facebook, Amazon, or Netflix only emerged after the turn of the millennium, and yet have founded new markets altogether.

 

What does the future hold for your company? What kind of future do you face in 5 or 10 years?

 

The scenario planning process has been around for decades. Yet oftentimes the program is limited by the quality of available information on the business environment. Many scenario exercises only use published data which are oftentimes outdated. The results in scenarios that are more theoretical or academic with the little practical value.

 

The Actelligos scenario programs start with a comprehensive assembly of realtime market and competitive intelligence. This immediately stimulates the scenario process, allowing managers to draw out more realistic insights and develop actionable strategies.

 

 

INTELLIGENCE SKILLS TRAINING

This is for existing intelligence teams who need to sharpen their tools, or market analysts challenged by data collection requirements, or for managers tasked with developing intelligence reports.

Actelligos provides a wide array of training programs aimed at building the necessary skillsets for the intelligence practitioner.