Strategic Management Consulting for the Weight Loss or Bariatric Industry

Information Uncover was established in Houston, TX in 1994. Information Uncover is a strategic management consulting company, specializing in gathering and analyzing industry related information that can enable a client to better meet its objectives. What we do is often called environmental scanning and analysis. Information Uncover focuses its environmental scanning and analysis on the health care industry, with an emphasis on the bariatric or medical weight loss segment of the industry. This segment, which we refer to as a sub-industry, includes weight loss organizations that perform bariatric surgery.

This sub-industry also includes those organizations that offer non-surgical weight loss programs employing diet, exercise, and medication for weight loss. This weight loss sub-industry includes organizations that provide weight loss related medical devices, and organizations that provide weight loss pharmaceuticals. We continually review bariatric industry related publications, and we talk with industry experts, to uncover early signs of future environmental opportunities and threats. We perform these activities for organizations that offer non-surgical and surgical weight loss services.

Some of the activities we engage in are similar to those that a press-clipping service provider might engage in. However, we only focus on one industry -- the bariatric industry. We have knowledge of the bariatric industry (please review our blog posts). Therefore, instead of providing you with article "clips" that you MIGHT be interested in, we provide you with targeted article excerpts that you are LIKELY to be interested in, along with a brief analysis of the excerpt. And our analysis is generally in sync with the environmental scenarios we establish. (By the way, here is where you can get some idea of how we and others define "analysis.")

Our goal is to help an organization gain business foresight that can enable the organization to improve its strategic management -- especially the organization's ability to respond quickly to changing environmental conditions. We use environmental scanning, text mining and scenarios to gain valuable insight, identify environmental issues, and to uncover information that can give an organization a competitive edge.

In the past, we concentrated on the aerospace industry, the computer industry, the air bag industry, and the health care industry. Recently, we began applying our expertise exclusively to the weight loss segment of the health care industry. We bring extensive strategic-information analysis experience to this industry.

To sum up, we monitor organization-external business information for clients associated with the weight loss or bariatric industry. We analyze the information to uncover early signs of future opportunities and threats. And we should note that our findings can be quite useful in SWOT analysis. This type of analysis investigates an organization's strengths, weaknesses, and the opportunities and threats the organization could be exposed to.

You can review our Bariatric News Bibliography to see citations associated with the kind of weight loss or bariatric industry related information we identify and analyze. This bibliography is frequently updated.

We sponsor a blog where we talk mostly about the weight loss or bariatric industry. This blog is business oriented. In the blog we often highlight environmental issues and strategies that a weight loss or bariatric service or product provider might consider in its strategic management.

Information Uncover offers seminars on how to scan for and analyze business related information to improve strategic management. We show attendees how to use environmental and competitor analysis methods, including scenarios and simulation technology, to improve business planning.

The book, Business Intelligence Using Smart Techniques: Environmental Scanning Using Text Mining and Competitor Analysis Using Scenarios and Manual Simulation, Revised Edition, shows how to use our methods. Excerpts from reviews of this book's first edition are shown on this site under Book Information. Additional information about the book can be accessed by going to Amazon.com.

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