Comscient is a commercial think tank, business intelligence, and decision support advisory services firm that works with strategy, purchasing, and project decision makers. We work with decision makers and policy makers in the information technology, emerging technologies, financial services, media, and environmental and energy technology sectors.
We assist individuals and teams to overcome decision paralysis and decision conflict. We work with clients when they are faced with complex, tough, and messy decisions helping them structure the decision making process, facilitating unsticking group decision making where the situation requires it, and gathering information and providing analysis as needed to support decision making. We help clients with strategic decisions, decisions concerning major capital and infrastructure spending, decisions concerning strategic purchases and acquisitions, decisions dealing with alliances and marketing partners, and decisions about developing new products and entering new markets.
Many decisions are clients ask us to help with require forecasts about emerging technologies and future customer markets replacing uncertainty with well reasoned projections of possible future scenarios enabling clients to anticipate and prepare appropriately.
Comscient's approach and the way we engage with clients is to provide content, insights, dialogue, and process that facilitate and support the top management team and other key decision makers to enable them to formulate, decide on, and action appropriate pre-emptive, anticipitory, and responsive strategies and strategic actions.
We help our clients:
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make informed and insightful, forward thinking, and timely technology decisions, guiding clients' through the evaluation and decision making process.
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enable them to stay abreast of, gain insight into, decipher,and anticipate the impact of new and emerging business and green technologies.
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obtain and elicit technology and vendor market intelligence to support technology selection and sourcing decision making.
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plan and perform technology and market due diligence when investing in a technology based venture or when buying a technology based product or service.
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obtain and elicit technology and vendor market intelligence to support technology strategic planning and strategic decision making.
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bring innovation and technology to market.by guiding them step by step through the process.
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select and acquire new technology by guiding and supporting them every step of the way through the process of discovery (market research), screening, evaluation, short-listing, RFI/RFP/tendering, negotiating, final selection, contracting/procurement, and on-going vendor management.
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develop flexible and adaptive marketing eco-systems and routes to customers by identifying and evaluating marketing channels and marketing partners.
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develop and implement systems and best practices for managing knowledge and insight that feeds customer insight, innovation, collaboration, and better decision making.
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monitor and strategically manage their online corporate and brand presence and reputations
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discover and employ analytical tools, frameworks, and technologies for better planning and decision making.
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make smarter use of social media to support product launches, manage business reputations, decipher marketplace and technology trends, and to better engage with key influencers and customers.
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obtain customer, technology, innovation, and competitive insight from online research and monitoring using technologies, methods, and platforms including Web 2.0, social media, RSS, Twitter, crowdsourcing, and social network analysis.
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formulate new sales and customer engagement strategies.
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develop research and analysis based content such as internal and external policy papers and white papers.
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obtain procurement/supply market intelligence to discover and evaluate business-technology vendors as prospective suppliers or to better decipher the supply market in making build or buy or other strategic technology decisions.
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obtain, track, and evaluate low-cost Internet sourced intelligence and open source market intelligence sourced from the internet, social media, and social networking sites to support strategic and tactical decision making
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analyze, understand, and visualize their go-to-market and marketing communications market/industry-social graph (social graph analysis) to better target go-to-market efforts and marketing communications focusing on issues and market key influencers, peer influencers, thought leaders, stakeholders, and key opinion makers.
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analyze, understand, and visualize their internal organization and stakeholder social graph and internal organization intelligence enabling them to achieve better targeted, better pitched, more relevant, and more effective internal corporate and stakeholder communications..
We work primarily with business-technology decision makers, project management offices, and internal and external advisors in a number of industry sectors: Financial Services, Broadcasting and Media, and Advertising, Information Technology and Green Technology. We also work with top management teams, technology decision makers, product managers, and sales and marketing decision makers at business-technology vendors.
Please explore our website to obtain further information and if we may be able to help you with solving a problem please call us on +1 201.946.1800 or by to discuss your needs further.