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Strategic Information Factory - NowIS SIF

  • Strategic information factories, SIF, change the approach of manual or assisted elaboration of reports to their industrial production.
  • Introduction of SIF in an organization permits to evolve from preindustrial environment of knowledge to its industrial environment, establishing by this one of the basis of new global economic model.
  • Provides any person or organization with high value strategic reports in due time for decision-making.

What is SIF system?

It is a complex organization of persons, methods, procedures and technologies which enable to execute and operate a cycle or a model of Intelligence established to support one or various client organizations.

Evidence-based model of SIF

EBC (Evidence Based Consulting) is a concept determined within the score of Intelligence community and put into practice by Jose Martin Juarez, an international expert in design and development of research and intelligence systems, basing on his research works about innovation of these disciplines.

Evidence-based management

  • Evidence-based SIF model implements in organizations Evidence Based Management.
  • Evidence Based Management:
    "Better Facts + Better Analysis + Better Decisions = Better Management"
  • The international crisis has clearly shown incorrect management of strategic information on the part of the top managers and governors in due-time to decision-making was the key factor in the chain of fails caused the global system collapse.

Characteristics of NowIS-SIF processes

  • Solid methodology.
  • Adequate planning.
  • Reliable information sources.
  • Analytical rigour.
  • Advanced technological tools.

Advantages of NowIS SIF 5.2

  • Help to standardize and systemize processes of strategic information production.
  • Aimed to continuous knowledge transfer.
  • Offer clear and advanced model of SIF system.
  • Permit to identify and plan all principal information elements for reports users.
  • Reduce time for training of new intelligence analysts.
  • Optimize interaction and data manipulation on the part of the analyst.
  • Provide the analyst with a continuous flow of distilled data.
  • Make evident all the variables and relations of the studied phenomenon.
  • Maximize the effort for establishing research scopes and objectives.
  • Improve documents management process.
  • Permit to realize precise questions – a set of more significant results.
  • Offer automatic storage of information and its quick recovery.
  • Permit to visualize simultaneously a great quantity of data.
  • Facilitate identification of possible relations and /or links.
  • Permit the analyst to identify patterns through creation of models and simulation.
  • Permit systematic creation of value-added reports.

Potential use of SIF reports

  • Found a decision.
  • Guide or ensure a strategy.
  • Support planning and development of an operation.
  • Describe and supervise any event.
  • Define and formulate warnings, references and indicators of performance.
  • Introduce management criteria.
  • Test a hypothesis.
  • Eliminate or put forth topics and assumptions.
  • Design action plans.
  • Compare situations.
  • Establish and project oneself in new settings and markets.
  • Project and generate plausible future developments.
  • Argue legal issues.
  • Etc.
NowIS SIF

"Strategic information factory is socio-technical structure objected to systemic reports of high strategic value for their consumers."

Jose Martin

SIF products profile and prices 2009-2012

Basic Price € Version Users
SIF AnalystWorkstation 60.000 5.2 5
SIF Cell 150.000 5.2 10
SIF Platform 1.500.000 5.2 100
SIF Xanalyst Services 30.000 / Report Various services
and products 		xxx
SIF MyIntell 3.000 +
charge for
connection to
NowIS SIF Retrieval
Centre (flat rate
100 Euros per
month)		 5.2 xxx