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 business or competitive intelligence research and analysis. The company focuses on the health care industry, with an emphasis on the 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. In general, we work to uncover early signs of future environmental opportunities and threats for organizations that offer non-surgical and surgical weight loss services.

Our goal is to help an organization gain business foresight that can enable the organization to improve its strategic management -- including the management of the organization's marketing approach. We use environmental scanning, text mining, scenarios, and simulation technology, to gain valuable insight, identify environmental issues, and to arrive at competitor information that can aid in competitor analysis.

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.

We monitor organization-external business information for a client. We analyze the information to uncover early signs of future opportunities and threats. 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 may be exposed to.

You can review our Bariatric News Bibliography menu item to see citations associated with the kind of weight loss or bariatric industry related information we use to help us make our recommendations. 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 planning.

Information Uncover offers seminars on how to scan for and analyze business related information to improve business strategy. 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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