Business Intelligence

Due Diligence

In today’s environment, it is imperative you know who you are conducting business with, or considering investing in, especially in the global arena.

The attention and care necessary for a proper due diligence can call for a variety of investigative techniques. Services can range from determining a customer’s financial status to assessing the desirability of acquisition targets. It could entail limited public records search, database research, single and multi-jurisdictional searches, to the use of covert and overt investigators.

Walker International can provide the proactive due diligence investigation necessary to mitigate your risk. From the initial consultation to submission of findings, we assist you with the necessary resources to get the most successful and cost-effective results.

Due diligence profile reports address undisclosed issues such as:
•  Extensive Litigation and/or Bankruptcies
•  Misrepresentations or Character Issues
•  Unpaid Tax Liens and/or Judgments
•  Criminal Records or Associations
•  Credit or Financial Problems
•  Fraudulent or Exaggerated Credentials
•  Securities or other Regulatory Violations or Disciplinary Actions
•  Past Business Failures and Related Debt
•  Poor Reputation

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Business Espionage Countermeasures

" If a Foreign company or Country can save hundreds of millions of dollars on R&D by stealing technology, they’re going to do it."

--USA Today Article, Donald Przybyla, FBI Supervising Agent, Palo Alto, CA.

American businesses lose billions of dollars a year as a result of espionage, and over a trillion dollars in the last decade. No company or organization is immune from being targeted for attack, and to smaller firms, a thousand-dollar loss could be more damaging than the loss of millions to larger businesses.

"Economic Espionage is the greatest threat to our national security since the cold war."

-- Louis Freech, former FBI Director

Who is at risk? The menace strikes every kind of business: big or small, high-tech or low-tech, industrial or service, professional or trade, profit or nonprofit. What is the primary target? Information: ideas about products, marketing strategies, lists of suppliers, sales data, customer names, personal information, and security plans, just to name a few.

Who is the adversary? Sometimes the thief is a business competitor, sometimes an employee wanting to strike out on their own, unfortunately with your trade secrets, and hard work, or other intellectual property. Sometimes your adversary works for a foreign nation or foreign-owned entity, and often the culprit is a business associate you trust most.

You could possibly be the target of an espionage campaign right now. Walker International can assist you with implementation of effective security, risk mitigation, and countermeasures against espionage and information loss.

Specialized services include:
•  Threat and Vulnerability Assessments
•  Conduct Security Surveys, Loss-Prevention Audits, and Inspections
•  Safeguarding Proprietary Information Programs
•  Prevention Programs
•  Physical Security Countermeasures
•  Technical Surveillance Countermeasures
•  Pre Employment Screening
•  Background Investigations
•  Vendor/Contractor Screening
•  Undercover Investigations
•  Lifestyle Inquiries
•  Surveillance/Counter Surveillance
•  Security Awareness Training

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Competitive Intelligence

"At a time when our country is scrambling to become as internationally competitive as possible, a grasp of how to use intelligence as a management tool can make all the difference to the fate of your company or enterprise."

- Unknown

"Intelligence" the buzzword among many smart business people. Yet, do you really know what it is? Do you know how to get it and use it? Are you ignoring the power of Intelligence? Intelligence, not information is what you need to make decisions. Intelligence is knowledge.

In our increasingly competitive market, intelligence is as essential to managing a successful business as it is to managing government. As important as Competitive Intelligence is, it is equally as important to have effective countermeasures against espionage and information loss.

" The next best thing to knowing all about your own business is to know all about the other fellow’s business."

- John D. Rockefeller

Walker International helps you obtain the highly specific and timely intelligence you need for better decision-making. We provide you with the insight, creativity, strategy, and persistence to further your company’s goals.

What we do … listen to your request…identify your specific requirements…understand the big picture…develop a strategy…gather intelligence…deliver results…to the successful outcome of a particular assignment.

Competitive Intelligence Gathering
•  Planning and Direction – selecting what needs to be known
•  Collection – collecting the information
•  Analysis – transforming this collected information into finished products.
•  Dissemination – distributing the results to decision makers
 
What Competitive Intelligence can do for you
•  Foresee changes in the marketplace
•  Anticipate actions of competitors
•  Discover new or potential competitors
•  Learn from the successes and failures of others
•  Increase the range and quality of acquisition targets
•  Learn about new technologies, products, and processes that affect your business
•  Learn about political, legislative, or regulatory changes that can affect your business
•  Enter new business
•  Look at your own business practices with an open mind
•  Help implement the latest management tools
 
Why do I need competitive Intelligence?
•  The pace of business is increasing rapidly
•  Information overload
•  Increased global competition from new competitors
•  Existing competition is becoming more aggressive
•  Political changes affect us quickly and forcefully
•  Rapid technological change

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Last updated February 21, 2008

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