About eCompetitors Inc & the Global Industry DashboardTM
eCompetitors Inc is a global corporation with headquarters in New York City.
eCompetitors represents a new category of business that provides strategically relevant, global industry and company information at the line-of-business level where true competition takes place.
Although we may sound like other industry and corporate information providers, we are unique - starting with our proprietary taxonomy of the world's economy. Our global industry taxonomy, of over 10,000 non-overlapping strategically relevant industries, provides the foundation of our industry knowledgebase. This foundation, which took over seven years of research to develop, beats the heck out of government-developed industry classification systems like: SIC codes, NAICS codes, and United Nations based ISIC codes. We strongly believe in the industry analysis methodologies put forth by Michael E. Porter; and we provide industry information to support those methodologies.
Most significantly, our knowledgebase of information has been generated through intense research, and not simply the result of computer-to-computer access and reformatting of company reported data. We believe we have the best industry (line-of-business) market research in the world in terms of strategically relevant information; and it's all presented in one holistic model - the Global Industry Dashboard.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide business executives and sales professionals with a unique and superior business tool for analyzing industries and companies. We have created an online model of the global economy using the most logical and useful industry classification system in the world. Unlike most other business information companies that provide "industry sector" information, we provide 100% pure strategically relevant industry information. We also provide superior corporate information in terms of the industries they compete in. We use the term "strategically relevant industry" - or SRI - to specifically mean the correct level to define an industry and perform an industry analysis. For example, we provide industry information useful to those using Michael E. Porter's five forces industry analysis methodology, the most widely studied industry analysis methodology in the world. [See "Competitive Advantage" by Michael E. Porter, 1985, The Free Press.]
Our Short-term Mission is to define and to constantly update the top 10,000 global industries and to analyze all companies that have more than 1% market share in one or more of these industries. We are not positioned to provide one-on-one proprietary consulting services to clients; our information service is designed for any company to use directly, and for consulting firms to use as a complementary resource to their research division.
Our Positioning As Information Provider for Industry Information:
1. Best industry classification of the global economy in terms of more than 10,000 non-overlapping, strategically relevant industries (SRIs).
2. Superior industry analysis framework that leverages methodologies from Michael E. Porter and years of practical corporate planning experience implementing these ideas.
3. Most strategically relevant design for selecting industries based on a broad array of industry selection criteria.
4. Unique ability for users to group SRIs to analyze the specific portion of the global economy of interest. Significantly, users can group SRIs from different industry sectors, if desired. The Global Industry Dashboard Business Process DesignSM is not constrained by industry sector hierarchies.
Our Positioning As Information Provider for Company Information:
1. Best solution for describing companies in terms of the businesses they are in - what we call the "strategically relevant industries" they are in.
2. Unique ability for the user to select and compare any 10 companies, side-by-side, at the strategically relevant industry level.
3. Unique ability to merge companies in terms of the strategically relevant industries (lines of business) they are in.
4. We are not positioned to provide historical corporate financial data from corporate documents; we are not in that business.
Our Targeted Users:
CEOs
Corporate Group Executives
Marketing Executives
Sales Execs & Sales Professionals
Corporate Planners
CFOs
CIOs & Business-IT Alignment Execs
Business Unit Executives
Product Managers
Competitor Intelligence Researchers
Research & Innovation Managers
Training Executives / Employees
Plus professionals in specialized industries, including:
Brokerage Firms
Industry Research Firms
Financial Advisor Firms
Market Research Firms
Private Equity Firms
Venture Capital Firms
Investment Management
Hedge Funds Firms
Corporate Training Firms
MBA schools
Business libraries