What is GIA?

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GIA (Global Intelligence Agency)

GIA is a service that monitors technical and non-technical developments in any sector from open intelligence sources, reporting these as industry trends, competitor activities, legal risks, or innovation and R&D opportunities. By tracking new products, patented technologies, new designs, and brands, it provides the technological and commercial intelligence necessary for competition. This is achieved by utilizing various databases containing technological and commercial information.

“As your competitors disrupt your industry, improving your operational capability is akin to playing the violin while Rome burns.”
— Gary HAMEL, Harvard Professor of Competition

Why Choose GIA?

Every day, thousands of new technologies, new designs, new products, or new brands emerge worldwide. Whether a small business or an exporter selling with its brand in many countries, every firm uses a conscious or unconscious competition strategy. When determining this strategy, they monitor developments in their sector and competitor behaviors, using this information to set product features, prices, and marketing and sales methods. Competitive strategies exist in all companies, regardless of size, in written or unwritten form. Large and corporate firms often have written competitive strategies, while a small firm’s strategy resides in the manager’s mind.

Companies often combine market information with their own knowledge to make decisions. Monitoring the market typically involves newspapers and magazines, fairs, sectoral publications, or examining competitor products by purchasing them from the market.

However, in a constantly changing and challenging competitive environment, merely searching on Google, visiting fairs, or reviewing sectoral magazines—essentially monitoring the market and competitors manually—is insufficient. To sell goods and services worldwide, continuous and systematic monitoring of the market and competitors is necessary. Monitoring is essential for both domestic markets and exporters.

Consider this:

  • In Turkey, approximately 10,000 patent applications are filed annually to gain exclusive rights. This number is 50,000 in Germany, 700,000 in China, 300,000 in the USA, 330,000 in Japan, and 400,000 in South Korea.
  • Similarly, around 8,000 new design applications are filed annually in Turkey. This figure is 40,000 in Germany and approximately 300,000 in China.
  • Research across 50 countries shows that around 800,000 new products hit store shelves annually.
  • In Turkey, an average of 100,000 new brand applications are made each year. This number is 80,000 in Germany, 100,000 in India, 300,000 in the USA, and around 600,000 in China.

GIA is a competitive intelligence service used by R&D, New Product Development, Marketing, Sales departments, Intellectual Property departments, and especially strategic decision-makers on the board of directors.

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