The client
Our client is a publicly listed chemical group with more than 5,000 employees and business lines spanning raw materials, specialty chemicals, and new energy materials. As the company’s value chain expanded and the external environment grew more complex, senior leadership realized they needed a unified intelligence base to navigate strategic uncertainty.
The challenge
The group’s intelligence efforts had long been fragmented. Subsidiaries and departments worked in isolation, often assigning staff on a part-time basis to manually collect and analyze open information. Reporting was largely focused on internal administrative and business data, with limited use of open-source intelligence such as international market signals, policy shifts, or research frontiers. Senior executives typically received scattered updates only in biweekly or monthly reports – too late to anticipate risks or act decisively.
Our solution
Working closely with top management and key departments, we set clear goals for building an enterprise-wide intelligence framework. The first phase targeted high-priority areas such as policy and supply chain risk, mapping existing channels and designing an integrated open-source intelligence architecture. Phase II launched pilot programs in select business units, with refinements to ensure scalability across the enterprise.
The results
The project clarified internal information flows, exposed blind spots, and established cross-departmental sharing. In Phase II, participating units have already cut down manual, repetitive work and improved both the efficiency and quality of intelligence gathering. Senior leadership now receives more timely, comprehensive insights, strengthening their ability to anticipate risks and make informed strategic decisions.