Ninety percent of Fortune 500 companies use competitive intelligence, yet most strategy teams still operate with blind spots that cost them deals, market share, and M&A decisions (Emerald.com, 2023). The gap isn’t data — it’s the analytical layer between raw information and a decision-ready brief. That’s exactly what competitive intelligence consulting firms provide: structured research, […]
“An average B2B purchase decision now involves 10 to 11 stakeholders (Corporate Visions, 2025), and more than 52% of those stakeholders are VP-level or above. Which means every market entry decision, pricing revision, or product launch your team makes is being scrutinized — and challenged — at the top of the org chart. The companies […]
While organizations have increasing access to external data, structuring it into usable insight remains a challenge. Information is often fragmented across sources, limiting the ability to form a clear and consistent view of the market. Market intelligence provides a structured approach to gathering and analyzing this information across multiple dimensions, enabling organizations to make sense […]
The market intelligence software market reached $12.38 billion in 2025 and is on track to hit $28.96 billion by 2033 — growing at 11.2% CAGR (Grand View Research, 2025). Yet 87% of marketers report that data is their most underused asset (Forrester, 2024). The problem isn’t access to tools. It’s knowing which tools hold up […]
Most organizations commissioning a market intelligence report receive a polished document built almost entirely from public secondary data — analyst summaries, trade press, and recycled competitor filings. Gartner estimates that 70% of organizations now run some form of market intelligence initiative, up from 30% in 2018 (Gartner, 2023). Yet the gap between a well-structured MI […]
Most organizations are not suffering from a lack of data. They are suffering from data that sits in silos, contradicts itself, and cannot be connected to a decision fast enough to matter. According to IDC (2024), organizations use less than 32% of the data they collect — not because the data is unavailable, but because […]
Most companies do competitive analysis wrong. They run a SWOT once a year, circulate a slide deck, and call it strategy. Then a competitor moves, and the team scrambles. According to Crayon’s State of Competitive Intelligence report (2023), 84% of businesses say their market has become more competitive over the past three years — yet […]
