Intelligence and Strategy

Economic Intelligence Services

Economic intelligence encompasses methods entities employ to collect, analyze, and protect information and weak signals about the global environment in which they operate. This operational environment comprises several dimensions requiring surveillance:

• Direct and indirect competitor monitoring across markets,
• Regulatory evolution tracking by national and international authorities,
• Technological advance identification emerging markets present to industries,
• Geopolitical and socio-economic risk assessment affecting operations,
• Market opportunity detection actors neglect or underestimate,
• Financial and operational health analysis organizations experience internally.

Strategic Planning and Implementation

Strategy designates the process entities employ to solve complex problems and define direction they pursue in the short, medium, and long term. It consists of aligning internal resources organizations possess with opportunities and threats external intelligence reveals through analysis.

Our advisory approach begins with evaluation of the entity's current position, followed by establishment of measurable objectives to reach the final position. Resource allocation constitutes the core of reflection for deployment. By being the operational phase of strategy, tactics translate the plan into concrete actions teams conduct.

Integration Framework

Economic intelligence and strategic planning form a complementary pair essential for position maintenance. The collection and analysis of information about competitors, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes feed planning frameworks. Reciprocally, the orientations determine surveillance priorities and protection requirements necessary for execution.

This interdependence creates an anticipation mechanism enabling proactive responses. Economic intelligence secures implementation by identifying potential threats: destabilization attempts, economic espionage risks, geopolitical disruptions, and financial crises. It allows adjustment in response to weak signals intelligence analysts detect.

Market Environment

Without surveillance and planning mechanisms, entities expose themselves to risks: obsolescence of the economic model they defend, market share erosion, vulnerability to competition more agile actors conduct. Conversely, a structured approach allows threat transformation into opportunities and optimization of resource allocation organizations possess.

In a context of accelerating economic cycles, the capacity to rapidly adjust strategy according to evolutions becomes a differentiating element. Economic intelligence provides the anticipation and adaptation tools that enable this agility leaders require.

Client Profile

All entities economically exposed to uncertainty utilize economic intelligence and strategic advisory services for position advantage.

• Enterprises including SMEs, mid-sized enterprises, and international groups face complex competitive environments that necessitate permanent surveillance and planning their teams conduct.
• Investment funds require in-depth sector analysis and opportunity assessment to optimize capital allocation decisions their portfolio managers execute.
• States and public institutions, both public and para-public organizations, utilize economic intelligence to anticipate socio-economic evolutions and orient policies they implement nationally.
• Ultra High Net Worth Individuals (UHNWI) seek strategic intelligence for managing and developing the assets they hold internationally.

Operational Methodology

Depending on situations, Mad Middleman intervenes as advisor or operational partner in managing or creating projects, enterprises, or missions. The firm accompanies clients through an approach that relies on neutral and collaborative frameworks: in-depth market analysis, plan formulation, and iterative monitoring that enable adjustments based on key performance indicators the parties define collaboratively.

This posture ensures balanced management frameworks. The entity gains agility while maintaining control of the orientations it pursues.

Service Architecture

Services articulate around a process of four interconnected stages: surveillance to anticipate market changes, analysis to decipher complex signals, strategy to plan responses then deploy resources, evaluation to optimize performance continuously.

Each stage is modular and adaptable to the size and nature entities present operationally. Transversal by nature, our development and management support process applies to projects of different sectors, diverse nature and varying scales internationally.

Geographic Scope

Mad Middleman operates worldwide, without fixed geographical limits constraining operations. Economic intelligence and strategic advisory apply on a global scale, with frameworks we adapt to any cultural, regulatory, or economic context.

The firm intervenes as advisor or counterparty internationally, selecting mandates according to opportunities we identify through analysis, available counterparties, and partners or clients we accompany.