Business and Economic Intelligence

Intelligence is “the art of knowing the adversary’s intentions.” It is not enough to merely obtain information; it is necessary to evaluate, analyze, and interpret it to understand the context.

Information: the raw material of economic competition.

Business Intelligence Consulting (BIC)

The continuing evolution of professional and technological parameters as well as the growing complexity of corporate systems bring new risks and challenges that require a novel approach, including a new set of skills. New instruments of analysis and risk management are required, particularly a broad set of human competencies, in order to address the ongoing complex realities. The adopted shared instruments and terminologies optimize the comprehensive management of risks.

Business Intelligence Consulting Srl (BIC), founded in 2014, is an independent firm, established according to the Italian law, which provides consulting services. BIC’s professionals, with extended international experience, work at support of its clients in their everyday projects. BIC provides a full and comprehensive portfolio of professional services. It has the required know-hows in risk management, security field as well as in business intelligence, and private or economic investigations.

The aim is to establish a permanent and sustainable relationship with its clients, providing them with the proper identification, assessment and management of risks, thereby contributing to an increase in their corporate value. The relevant intelligence and investigation competencies are gathered by qualified professionals with the authorization required by art. 134 TULPS (Testo Unico Leggi di Pubblica Sicurezza) and art. 5 of the Decreto Ministeriale n.269/2010.

Business and Market Intelligence

Due Diligence Services

identifying and monitoring partners (agents, consultants, suppliers, etc.), collecting, analyzing, processing, assessing and evaluating every economic, patrimonial, financial, credit, industrial, productive, corporative and professional data; utilizing the best technologies available on the Open Source Intelligence, while being compliant with the National and European privacy regulations.

Country Risk Analysis

our experts provide risk-analysis of world-wide political and economic aspects, as well as the relevant strategic, geographic, historical and cultural facts of the contemporary international relations. We support our customers with intelligence services for their staff operating in high-risked and/or hostile areas.

Intelligence Investigation

identifying and highlighting existing or potential risks of economic and industrial espionage or illegal behaviour. This analysis combines expertise from economics, intelligence and private investigations.

Cyber Threat Intelligence and Counter-Information

our experts provide services of detection and analysis of cyber-attacks and operating communications.

Professional Services

Corporate Intelligence

Corporate Intelligence is addressed to analyze and prevent the damage resulting from illegal activities, such as the unauthorized acquisition of information, fraudulent appropriation of know-how, disloyalty of partners (agents, consultants, suppliers, etc.). These factors create a burden of the firm’s expenditure, a reduction of its productivity, due to the damage caused at the corporate value. The interaction between economic, financial and investigation knowledge in BIC allows to have an in-depth understanding and solution of an entire range of critical situations.

Corporate Security

BIC assists the different Security Departments in companies at protecting the corporate structure, by securing its technologies, employees, and information asset from internal and external threats. Especially, we provide our customers with informative services for the travel security, even in highly-risked area. This service includes a continuous update on targeted topics such as politics, social, and geological risks of the destination countries, as well as a live monitoring of national or local crime and terrorism activities.

Implementing security systems

Analysis, assessment and implementation of accounting, economic and financial systems. Analysis, assessment and implementation of physical security systems

Cyber Threat Intelligence and Counter-Information:

Detection and analysis of cyber-attacks and operating communications.

Training

To control the economic environment and assimilate the vast amount of information within it, businesses must acquire increasingly diverse and specialized knowledge that forms their intangible capital.

BIC supports businesses and private and public entities in promoting and developing training and education programs for their staff on preventing illicit behaviors, physically and logically protecting corporate information assets, and counteracting unlawful interferences in economic, financial, and industrial fields.

In this context, BIC, through its qualified experts, can design and provide training and assistance to businesses and entities that wish to better understand intrusive interference techniques used by potential aggressors. This knowledge enables them to implement appropriate countermeasures, minimizing risks and related economic and legal damages at the lowest possible cost.