Business Interior Communications Security

Many clients self inflict a struggle with gaining and keeping their competitive advantage. How does this happen? Findings show that many businesses failed at building a sound internal communication policy. Nearly all of small business owners we dealt with complained their original ideas were constantly being stolen by the competition. The same business owners have issues with competition regularly exploiting internal operational weaknesses.  How is this happening? Business owners, managers, employees simply will not keep their mouths shut, eyes and ears open. Running a business by constantly countering and covering exposure creates stress and eats away at businesses resources. It is easy for outsiders to take advantage of business issues are being divulged. 

Working with security professionals for the last 21 years, the biggest threat to business is loss of sensitive information control. Operational “secrets” are a part of all business. No matter how transparent a business appears to be, competitive advantage and revenue components are highly protected or off limits to nonessential operators. For example, the future marketing strategies of one of the worlds largest chains of fast food are unknown to the public. The employees and public may learn of strategies executed in the past and gain an understanding of marketing tactics currently in play, but to hear the marketing plan for next year will not happen. The dominant businesses execute various forms of information protection. World dominating corporations continue to maintain discipline of its information system. This strategy has built the advantages which offer leverage to win the multi-billion dollar market.



Self inflicted damage to a business's success starts at the beginning.  An idea is conceived. The idea is built and bounced off family. Trusted peers, friends, or family get a peek. Eventually it is presented to potential investors and business partners. The idea has been cycled through quite a few ears and mouths. The idea spreads. Sounds like it may be a great start for your work and you will have no problem opening a business based on it. If the work is innovative, marketable, and profitable, without information control, it will not likely stay your work. We have watched many business innovators lose the opportunity to capitalize on their work because someone or company with ready infrastructure and mechanisms in place adopts the they idea, replicates it, then launches it before the innovator can take advantage of the work.