APPLYING BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS TO HIGH-VALUE DECISION MAKING
By applying methodologies originally developed for the U.S. intelligence community, BIA provides meaningful behavior-based insights to institutional investors through a variety of solutions that can inform high-value decision making and reduce investment risks.
Effective information collection and evaluation should be non-confrontational. Our methodology seamlessly integrates into evaluating and conducting management interviews and is appropriate in all professional settings. Transferring skills in BIA’s proprietary methodology, Tactical Behavior Assessment®, BIA offers a training curriculum from foundational to advanced skills. Your team will start with BIA’s foundational offering, Strategic Information Collection™, designed for clients who seek higher quality and more reliable information to inform their decision-making and risk management processes. Divided into two sessions the foundational course covers:
BIA investment research services analyze a wide range of company disclosures, such as earnings calls, press releases and interviews, filtering out critical information from even the most carefully crafted corporate spin or rehearsed communications. By identifying where management communications are incomplete or lack transparency, BIA generates qualitative insights into key performance factors for use by investors when evaluating their investment thesis.
BIA’s investment research services provide an unbiased behavioral lens that can help you:
Management is a critical part of the investment process. BIA’s team of world-class primary- and open-source experts provide diligence services to enable our clients to obtain, evaluate and act on information vital to their investment process and fill critical intelligence gaps. BIA develops unique, unpaid sources for every project and provides first-hand, authoritative insight on questions like:
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TBA allows investors to systematically analyze the Quality of Communication in all forms of corporate disclosure ― to help guard against bias, identify hidden risks, build conviction and identify uncorrelated alpha-generating investment insights.
BIA’s proprietary Tactical Behavior Assessment® methodology was derived from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and is used to identify language and behavioral cues that indicate when an individual isn’t being entirely candid.
Founded in 2001 on the principle that methodologies originally developed for the national intelligence community could be powerfully applied to the private sector, BIA has been working with institutional investors, venture capital firms, private equity firms, and other entities since, helping them gain unique insights by using our approach.