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Senior intelligence manager, global consumer products company

TKA Information Services

Do you need to monitor and respond to critical issues and trends affecting your organization?
 
TKA employs advanced business analytics to capture and distill qualitative "ambient signals" in your business environment into manageable—usually quantitative—chunks.  We translate your business challenge into a real-time data model that can be manipulated, analyzed, and used as the basis for developing forecasts and plans under alternative what-if scenarios.
 
These models can be large and complex.  In one recent example, we delivered over 110,000 refreshed pieces of data during each monthly cycle.  We did, of course, analyze and distill such that our top-line summary fit on a few pages—suitable for presentation to senior management.
 

Standard analytics

In doing this, TKA analysts have advanced skills in a range of standard techniques, including:
  • statistical analysis
  • econometric modeling
  • algorithmic searching
  • pattern recognition
  • industry structure analysis
  • scorecard assessments
  • data modeling

Proprietary analytics

In addition, TKA has developed proprietary analytics available only from us.  These include:
  • Parametric Content Analysis™.  Originally developed by TKA in helping our clients monitor and defend against threat of counterfeit and diverted goods, this technique has now been adapted for use in other business problems, both strategic and tactical.
  • Scan and Target™.  This research strategy integrates broad-scale sweeps with more focused "deep dives".
  • Knowledge Value Chain®.  This multi-use tool both (1) guides TKA research efforts and (2) provides us with a structured methodology for assessing the value-relevance of client information and knowledge assets.
  • Strategic Risk Mapping™.  SRM allows us to identify strategic opportunities and threats at a line-of-business level, such that focused intelligence programs can then be built around each of those areas.

Tracking studies

Each quantitative model is run as a time series, so in effect becomes a tracking study.  Patterns and trends can be detected, including the effects of client actions.
 

Reporting

Each TKA tracking is custom-designed and operated, and delivered in a format most suitable to your needs. In some cases, this means electronic delivery directly to your SharePoint® or other intelligence portal.  In others, it means hard-copy Briefing Books delivered to a Board or executive level audience.
 
Regardless of delivery method, the information is completely confidential, and is never re-sold to outside parties.
 
See recent examples of TKA custom tracking research by clicking on the case profiles on the right.>>