In today’s business environment, leading professional services firms must utilize world-class information collection and evaluation techniques in order to enhance their risk management abilities, provide effective counsel to their clients and to protect the reputation of their firms. Since its founding in 2001, BIA has consistently delivered a wide range of high-impact Behavioral Intelligence training to the world’s leading audit and professional services firms through BIA’s Learning & Development Solutions. These training programs are customized to meet each client’s unique professional development needs and are based on BIA’s proprietary Tactical Behavior Assessment® (TBA) methodology, which has its roots in the national intelligence community. BIA’s Tactical Behavior Assessment model and strategic interviewing methodology provides audit and other professional services clients with cutting-edge techniques for strategic interviewing, information evaluation and risk identification.

Clients utilize BIA’s interview techniques to increase the effectiveness and efficiency in their day-to-day decision-making and to ensure the “right” level of professional skepticism. Over the last 7 years, BIA has trained thousands of professionals at all levels of an organization–from entry-level to the most senior partners. Some of the ways our clients have incorporated BIA’s techniques to ensure higher quality outcomes include:

• Auditors collecting audit evidence to render an opinion on company financial statements
• Forensic professionals investigating an allegation of fraud
• Process improvement teams conducting interviews to redesign a company’s critical business process
• Transaction service professionals gathering information during due diligence

At BIA, we recognize that each client has unique Learning and Professional Development needs. As such, our account managers work closely with each client to tailor our Learning and Development programs and services to best meet their unique requirements.

Recent economic events have heightened the need for world-class due diligence practices for leading venture capital and private equity firms. Business Intelligence Advisors is the leader in developing and applying Quality of Information Solutions for premier venture capital and private equity firms. BIA’s team of world-class experts provide training and diligence support services to enable our clients to obtain, evaluate and act on information vital to their investment process and fill critical intelligence gaps. BIA has successfully applied its Quality of Information Solutions to increase the quantity, quality and reliability of information gathered from individuals and companies to support the complex and unique needs of the venture capital and private equity community.

Now more than ever, leading insurance and banking firms need to arm themselves with the best tools to ensure a high-quality underwriting process that balances commercial interests with identifying and managing risk. BIA’s Quality of Information Solutions provide insurance and banking professionals with leading-edge Behavioral Intelligence Research, Expert Advisory Services, Investment Intelligence and Learning & Development Solutions to support each step of their due diligence efforts — from the collection and evaluation of information to interviewing management, from ongoing monitoring for material changes to the risk profile of an underwritten company. All of BIA’s offerings leverage the Firm’s proprietary Tactical Behavior Assessment® (TBA) model.

We recognize that each client has a unique approach to underwriting and due diligence. As such, all of BIA’s services are proprietary and we work with each client to tailor a custom suite of BIA’s Intelligence Solutions to meet their unique requirements. Some of the ways client organizations have incorporated BIA’s solutions include:

• Embedding BIA’s core Learning & Development Solutions into their own professional development initiatives in order to train all levels of the organization–from entry-level professionals to managers and senior executives. BIA’s core Tactical Behavior Assessment and strategic interviewing methodology provides clients with cutting-edge techniques for strategic interviewing, information evaluation and risk identification.
• Leveraging BIA’s proprietary Behavioral Intelligence Research on corporate disclosure events (earnings calls, press releases, investor presentations) to quickly identify key issue areas, potential hidden risks and emerging opportunities; and, to inform their due diligence efforts with key follow-up questions ahead of meetings with the management team.
• Using BIA’s Investment Intelligence team to perform source-based information gathering to support diligence efforts on management teams, companies and specific strategic issues.