Executive sitting at her desk, deep in thought. The following text appears below her: The time has come to wrap up next year’s plan. What do you do? Open the drawer and pull out a crystal ball. Pull up a spreadsheet with figures from previous years, assuming the future will hold the same patterns. Review the market, competitor, and consumer data, insights, and recommendations provided by your intelligence team.

30

Oct

The time has come to wrap up next year’s plan. What do you do?

Before planning for 2027, think about what information you need to make decisions that deliver strong results. Do you want to stop guessing what the future holds for your market but aren’t sure how market and competitive intelligence can help with your planning? Even if you don’t have an intelligence team, we have some tips.

Screenshot showing the use of RiskThreshold. The example displays the monitoring dashboard with ACME Motors’ risk and threat factors. The listed risk factors are foreign exchange risk, with the dollar as the indicator; economic crisis, with monthly IPCA inflation and monthly INPC inflation as indicators; dissatisfaction with the brand or products, with the Reclame Aqui complaint index as the indicator; and price war, with four competitors being monitored. For each factor, the current status or value is shown alongside the defined threshold value. Each factor also displays the monitoring result, indicating whether the risk factor is stable or accelerating and which factors require attention.

30

Sep

New Tool Monitors Risks and Threats to Your Business

Did you know that Link Estratégia has its own methodology for monitoring risks and threats to your business? It is called RiskThreshold and is one of the monitoring modules available on Hub Link Estratégia, our market and competitive intelligence platform. Using RiskThreshold, decision-makers can monitor what we call Critical Failure Factors (CFFs) for the business.

31

Aug

How to Assess Brand Perception in the B2B Market

Brand perception in B2B markets does not serve to create superficial emotional appeal, but rather to fulfill a much more pragmatic role: reduce perceived risk in purchasing decisions, sustain long-term commercial relationships, and differentiate the value proposition where price and delivery truly matter.
To structure this diagnosis with methodological rigor, we developed BrandIntel, the brand equity assessment module of Hub Link Estratégia. This module also can be used to assess B2C and B2B2C brands.

30

Jun

How can you determine the size of your market over the next few years?

Every manager would like to know how large their market will be three or five years from now. At Link Estratégia, we have been forecasting market size since 2014. Drawing on that experience, we developed two tools, MarketModeler and CorrelationLens, to support these studies. These tools are now available to clients through Hub Link Estratégia.