Competitive intelligence companies - a definitive list
A while ago, we published a list of competitive intelligence companies. Our criteria was that competitive intelligence had to be their primary, or at least significant, focus. Other agencies graze the edges of competitive intelligence, but it's not their main service. All the companies we listed carry out competitive intelligence services — primary or secondary research for their clients (usually both), and they all have competitive intelligence-focused websites.
In our latest update to this list, and to reflect the importance of social media, we have added their Twitter handles, where possible. We have also highlighted their locations to help you look for companies in specific countries. Naturally, there have been some changes to our original list: some new urls, a takeover, a couple of organizations have ceased trading, some companies have stopped focusing on competitive intelligence, and ISIS has unsurprisingly changed its name...
Here is our current directory of competitive intelligence specialists. If we have missed anyone out, please tweet @aquteintel
Affinis, France
AIM, USA
Aqute Intelligence, USA, UK, @AquteIntel
Aurora WDC, USA, @AuroraWDC
Blue Ocean, India, @blueoceanmi
Cipher, USA, @CipherSisLLC
CIS, USA, UK, China
Combs Inc, USA
DC Analytics, USA
Die Denkfabrik, Germany, @think2know
European Agency, France, @EASI_IE
Fletcher/CSI, USA, UK, @FletcherCSI
Fuld & Co, USA, UK, Philippines, @FuldCompany
Global Intelligence Alliance, Finland HQ, global offices
Helicon Group, USA
I-Intelligence, Switzerland, @i_intelligence
Info+Daten, Germany, @ipd+kg
Inovis, USA
Intelligentsia, UK HQ, global offices
Ivy, Switzerland
Kirk Tyson, USA
MindShifts, Australia, @BabetteBen
Nugwa, West Africa
Perpetual Strategist, USA
Proactive Worldwide, USA/China, @PWW
Rauch Associates, USA, UK, @RauchAssociates
RivalScape, USA
Sedulo, USA,
Sharp Market, USA, @SeenaSharp
You may be asking, why are we highlighting our own competitors? There aren't many service providers who cheerfully list their rivals on their websites. Primarily, we maintain this list because it is useful to companies that are looking for a competitive intelligence vendor. For example, most competitive intelligence agencies are relatively small, and their websites may get lost among general business and academic content devoted to competitive intelligence. In any case, competitive intelligence buyers are typically investigative types, who will find relevant agencies soon enough - the above list just saves time. And we like to think of our fellow competitive intelligence companies as healthy competition rather than business threats - there are good reasons why you would choose Aqute, and good reasons why you would choose someone else.
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