Research
- Collection of competitive, technical and industry information including but not limited to:
- Financial statements and results
- Price plans
- Product offerings
- Service offerings
- Internal operations
- Determination of trends, strategies and threat levels
- Key Performance Indicator and Financial Metric Tracking for industry players
- Summarization of data and preparation of in-depth financial and strategic analyses on existing and emerging competitors, threats and opportunities
- Coordination and development of data set and corresponding presentations for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual Strategic Plan and/or Board of Director reports
- Tracking of strategic initiatives for executive review
- Recommendations for potential strategies and directions to improve client competitive position
- Tracking and forecasting shipments and sales for key device or service categories via analyst reports, third party materials, publications and company earnings releases
- Daily competitive news email/voicemail to update Senior Executives or special teams
- Maintenance of existing databases and presentations
- Audit use of research database services (e.g. LexisNexis, FactSet, Dow Jones News Service, Thomson Reuters, etc.) within department and/or company-wide to ensure user list is up-to-date and content packages are appropriately selected based on actual usage
