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AWARE: UK competitive intelligence consultants offering competitor analysis and research services, competitive intelligence training & workshops and CI and marketing strategy consultancy.

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CI Outsourcing & Interim Management


The business world is a rapidly changing environment and staying competitive is getting harder each day. People move from job to job, and with illness, maternity and paternity leave, there is a substantial chance that essential staff will not always be available when you need them. Our Interim Management Services aim to provide you with the experts to cover key staff absence, whatever the reason. Our interim managers are experts in their field, so you can ensure that your CI operations continue running and that you stay competitive.

However this is not the only reason to take on an interim manager.

  • You may also want an interim manager to show your existing staff best practices in CI.
  • You may have a particular project requiring specific skills not available from your current staff - interviewing skills, financial analysis knowhow and so on.
  • You may have a one-off short-term project and don't wish to recruit staff just for this.
  • Your project may require an objectivity or level of confidentiality that can't be achieved using in-house staff.

For such projects it won't be sensible to recruit a full-time person. Our interim managers can fill such temporary gaps ensuring your CI processes run smoothly and effectively.

Interim managers can be taken on for either long-term (six-months plus), short-term or part-time contracts. They can also be kept on a retainer basis, with availability spread over a long period but for only a few days or weeks at a time perhaps to help with end-of-month peaks, or to provide back-up for other staff away on day-release training. (Please note: this service is currently only available to UK based companies).

Contact us if you would like to know more about how our
CI Interim Management and Outsourcing services can help you

or click here to contact us about any of our CI services!

Books - Strategic and Competitive Analysis

Recommended Book

Strategic and Competitive Analysis
Strategic and Competitive Analysis: Methods and Techniques for Analyzing Business -
Craig S. Fleisher & Babette Bensoussan
Buy UK £ or US$

Read our review of this book

This book provides an excellent review of the most common techniques of competitive and strategic analysis - giving instructions on how to use each technique, when to use it, and each technique's pros and cons.

The book should be on every strategic planner and competitor analyst's "must have" list and is essential reading for business studies and MBA students. The book covers all the main analysis techniques:

  • the Boston Box
  • financial analysis,
  • Porter Analysis,
  • Value Chain Analysis,
  • Blindspot analysis,
  • SWOT analysis,
  • PEST analysis

and many more.

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Our services in competitive intelligence research, competitor analysis and CI training will help you integrate and use competitive and marketing intelligence in your business, strategic and marketing planning processes. Whether you need research, advice or training, our mission is to support our clients so that they achieve their growth objectives.

For the best UK & European competitive intelligence and competitor analysis services, contact us today.

AWARE Phone numbers: 0845 430 9125 (International: +44 20 8954 9121). Fax: 0845 430 9126 (International: +44 20 8954 2102)

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