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Competitive Intelligence

Gather, analyse and share intelligence on products, customers, competitors and the wider market, so your leadership can make strategic decisions one step ahead.

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Competitive Intelligence
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What is competitive intelligence?

What is competitive intelligence?

Competitive Intelligence (CI) is the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors, and any aspect of the environment needed to support executives and managers in strategic decision making for an organization.

Competitive Intelligence means understanding and learning what is happening in the world outside the business to increase one's competitiveness. It means learning as much as possible, as soon as possible, about one's external environment, including one's industry in general and relevant competitors.

  • Products
  • Customers
  • Competitors
  • The wider market environment
Key points

Key points

Here are some key points about competitive intelligence:

  • Businesses: competitive intelligence is a legal business practice, as opposed to industrial espionage, which is illegal. The focus is on the external business environment. There is a process involved in gathering data, converting it into intelligence and then using it in decision making.
  • Professionals: some competitive intelligence professionals emphasise that if the intelligence gathered is not usable or actionable, it is not intelligence. Another definition regards competitive intelligence as the organisational function responsible for the early identification of risks and opportunities in the market before they become obvious (early signal analysis).
  • Focus: this definition draws attention to the difference between disseminating widely available factual information (such as market statistics, financial reports and newspaper clippings), performed by functions such as libraries and information centres, and competitive intelligence, which is a perspective on developments and events aimed at yielding a competitive edge.
More than competitor analysis

More than competitor analysis

The term competitive intelligence is sometimes viewed as interchangeable with competitor analysis. However, competitive intelligence is more than analysing competitors; it embraces the whole environment and its stakeholders: customers, competitors, distributors, technologies, and macroeconomic data.

What We Gather

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Competitors

Competitors

On-ground visits to competitor stores and showrooms to understand their products, pricing, promotions and service, compared with yours on the same parameters.

  • Products & pricing
  • Promotions & campaigns
  • Service experience
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Why Brands Choose FloorWalk

Legal & ethical

Intelligence gathered openly from the external business environment, never through espionage.

Actionable

Findings are tied to the decisions your executives and managers need to make.

On-ground reach

500,000+ shoppers and field agents across 350+ Indian cities and 22+ countries.

Verified evidence

Field visits carry geo-stamped photos with GPS address, date and time.

How It Works

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Define the questions

We agree which competitors, markets and decisions the intelligence must support.

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Gather the data

Field visits, surveys and desk research capture information from the market.

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Convert to intelligence

Data is quality-checked, analysed and compared against your brand.

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Distribute & act

Insights are shared on dashboards and reports for decision makers.

Powered by FloorWalk software

Geo-stamped evidence, AI quality checks and live dashboards

Every audit runs on our in-house platform, with up to 95% of the process automated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Yes. Competitive intelligence is a legal business practice focused on the external business environment, as opposed to industrial espionage, which is illegal.

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