In today's world, which has recently become known as the world of VUCA, there are an incredible number of names for defining information retrieval on behalf of businesses or NGOs, etc. For example, the same word ‘intelligence’ is added to any other word and well-known terms are created: ‘commercial intelligence’, ‘competitive intelligence’, ‘business intelligence’, ‘economic intelligence’, ‘non-state intelligence’, etc. And if you add such concepts as ‘open source intelligence’ (OSINT) and ‘human intelligence’ (HUMINT), you can really get lost in thoughts, plans and choosing a contractor for your private intelligence tasks.
In this case, our team of specialists respects the names for private intelligence that has no connection with the activities of states, so we have chosen a single term - BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (from the word ‘business’, i.e. a set of actions to be performed).
So we recognise that business intelligence is nothing more than obtaining factual answers to the questions ‘What happened?’, ‘What is happening?’ and ‘What will happen?’ by using business intelligence tools.
Where do specialists come from in business intelligence?  

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• private investigation or private security structures - people who have been engaged in private investigations and targeted business protection for a long time, but who have also grown professionally, learned new tools and gained innovative personal expertise. When the scope of such specialists' activities becomes too narrow, and their experience and skills need to be used, new intelligence companies or individual private intelligence officers emerge;
• from government agencies - people who have left some kind of intelligence-related service and, having resigned, occupy free niches of business intelligence in the private sector;
• Public relations, media, data science or journalists - people who have been working with information all their lives, collecting it and selling it in a way. For such intelligence officers, the transition to business intelligence is a one-step process: they need to change their ‘respect’ for scandals, develop a lack of desire to take sides, and the business of new intelligence officers moves quickly;
• people from IT/cyber teams or consulting with audit expertise - people who were engaged in specific information gathering in the cyber space and, like private investigators, at some point realised that they could do more and joined the ranks of business intelligence specialists.
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If you are an intelligence specialist, you can safely add other categories that certainly exist in this rapidly changing world.
Therefore, the team of INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PROTECTION HOLDING has intelligence officers who come from a variety of fields. What could be more effective for fulfilling the tasks of a business or a person?
But what distinguishes our team from many professional companies, organisations and associations in the field of private intelligence?

• We are deeply convinced (including from our own experience) that any information collected in the interests of the customer is not 100% valid if it cannot be verified by the human factor, i.e. by local sources. Our team has developed an effective system: ‘If there is no source for verification in the place where the information is located or a task is solved, we can find it there’. 
• Any information may be false if it is not processed by powerful analysts who are able to collect a pool of small, disparate and diverse ‘pieces’ to create a holistic picture required by the customer: ‘What happened? What is now? What will be?"

We are proud of these differences. This is the experience of almost two decades, a tremendous amount of work in establishing connections, building a reputation, making mistakes and winning. And our team offers all this experience at your service if you need help for your business or person.