When decisions are business critical the right information about talent, markets or the competition can make the difference between success and failure.

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The benefit of insight

We have the networks, the relationships and, above all, the methodologies, to gather the intelligence you need – quickly, quietly and effectively. We're trusted by many of the world's leading employers to research and report on sensitive, business-critical issues.

What are your competitors up to? How much are they paying their people? Who are the best people in your industry, what makes them tick and where are they working? What are people saying about your organisation? What do they think of you as an employer? What does best practice look like? What could you learn from successful processes in other sectors or countries? Why are businesses organised as they are?

We can get answers to questions other types of research can't address. If that sounds like a big claim, it's because we use a unique and powerful combination of:

• Public Domain Intelligence
• Digital Domain Intelligence
• Personal Domain Intelligence

This combination provides insights that cannot be matched by management consultants, market research companies or international search firms. It can give you an information advantage over your competitors. It means a cost becomes an investment.

We deliver superior value for money and better risk control. We hand over all the Intellectual Property we accumulate through projects, giving you invaluable data to help your strategic planning. We help you make informed decisions about how and who to recruit. And we assure you of consistency and rigour in everything we do.

Public Domain Intelligence

• Public Domain Intelligence provides context for the problem or situation under consideration by considering published, secondary sources
• Our specialist team is dedicated to the expert mining and audit of such publicly-available information
• We sift and sort information and provide reports, summaries and recommendations for you
• The team is able to evaluate published company information, market research and industry sources on a worldwide basis

Digital Domain Intelligence

• The Digital Domain Intelligence team gathers and interprets the vast amounts of "unedited" information available from online and social media
• We can obtain and evaluate insight into perceptions, behaviours and market sentiment – immediately and over time
• Detailed analysis of markets, companies, trends, preferences and opinions from online news, blogs, Twitter, social networking sites and online search results
• Results are presented in easy-to-understand graphics and commentary

Personal Domain Intelligence

• Personal Domain Intelligence is the core of our Intelligence services and the key to unlocking specific, relevant insight that is not available anywhere else
• We provide exclusive intelligence relating to markets, companies and individuals (wherever they are in the world) that you cannot obtain from published reports
• Our specialist team find (often sensitive) information from non-public sources , which is not available to the competition
• Armstrong Craven's skilled team can probe in more detail and validate using top-tier expert interview and investigative capabilities
• We discreetly ask the confidential questions companies cannot get answers to themselves