Today, a company’s strategic decisions are influenced and determined by information management. To be innovative, competitive and adaptable, efficient information means are required and “stocks of intelligence” must be skilfully exploited. If they are fed and stimulated by tuning in to their environment, companies can then anticipate or react and seize opportunities for development that arise.
Founded in 1980, Innovation 128 is the Innovation and Technological Watch branch of Compagnie Européenne d'Intelligence Stratégique (C.E.I.S). A large number of companies and research laboratories regularly use our services to have better knowledge of the latest developments in their technological, competitive or commercial environment.
Consulting and services
■ Innovation 128 offers a range of consulting services and services to boost its customers' innovation processes by professionalising its method for collecting and processing technological and strategic information. These acts include notably guiding the technological and strategic Watch programmes, carrying out prospective surveys or ad-hoc state-of-the-art reports, searching for R&D; partners and publishing reference works.
Resources
■ To carry out its missions, Innovation 128 has a team of permanent members and vast information resources on an international level.
References
■ For twenty-five years, several hundred companies, research centres and organisations all over the world have been using the services of Innovation 128.
Experts' club
■ Innovation 128 has a network of over 100 experts who assist its engineers and consultants when necessary. These experts have a wide network of contacts in each of their specialist fields, which is essential for rapidly obtaining certain information.