Services to support and guide your innovation decisions

SCBT-CENTREDOC supports innovation by transforming information into a tool for decision-making. We help our clients understand their environment, anticipate changes, and act with confidence.

Depending on your needs, you can request a one-time service (search), set up ongoing monitoring (market intelligence), benefit from strategic guidance (consulting), or strengthen your teams’ skills (training). These services can be utilized individually or in combination.

We’d be happy to discuss your needs with you to clarify them and identify the most appropriate approach.

Targeted search to help you make well-informed decisions at every stage of your innovation projects.

Customized Search Tailored to Your Needs

You can contact SCBT-CENTREDOC with a specific inquiry. Our searches are conducted on demand, on a project-by-project basis.

 

A Comprehensive Exploration of Information Useful for Decision-Making

Depending on your specific needs, our searches can cover:

  • Intellectual property (patents, designs, trademarks, etc.).
  • Scientific and technical literature.
  • Market and competitive intelligence.

 

Concrete Results to Inform Decision-Making

Our searches enables you to:

  • Avoid reinventing existing solutions.
  • Assess the true potential of an idea or technology.
  • Identify key players, competitors, or partners.
  • Mitigate legal and technological risks.
Mapping the terrain
with a search

Ongoing monitoring focused on key issues

Market monitoring is an ongoing process. It allows you to regularly track developments that could impact your business, projects, or innovation strategy, without having to monitor multiple sources yourself.

 

Structured Monitoring of Relevant Information

Depending on your needs, monitoring can focus on:

  • Intellectual property (patents, utility models, trademarks, designs).
  • Scientific and technical literature.
  • Key players, competitors, and partnerships.
  • Market, regulatory, or media developments.

 

Tangible results that allow us to anticipate rather than react

In particular, monitoring allows you to:

  • Identify weak signals and emerging trends.
  • Track the activities of key technologies or players.
  • Adapt your strategies and priorities over time.
  • Ensure the soundness of your long-term decisions.
Monitor the construction

Continuous monitoring to stay informed about key developments in your environment and better anticipate them.​

Two complementary monitoring formats

Customized Monitoring Services

Customized monitoring services are tailored to your priorities, technologies, markets, and the key players you wish to track. They enable targeted and scalable monitoring aligned with your specific business challenges.

 

Industry-Specific Publications

SCBT-CENTREDOC also offers a range of ready-to-use industry watch reports covering key areas of the watchmaking industry. These thematic reports provide a structured and regular overview of technological, creative, and market developments, and cover the entire watchmaking innovation chain, from R&D to the market.

Strategic guidance based on data to help inform your innovation decisions.

Tailored support that goes beyond analysis

Consulting engagements come into play when the issue is no longer simply one of understanding, but of making a choice. They involve interpreting complex information, putting it into context with your specific situation, and guiding you through critical decision-making processes—particularly in the areas of innovation, R&D, and intellectual property.

 

A Look at the Possible Options

Depending on your specific needs, our consulting services may focus on:

  • Comparing and evaluating different technological options.
  • Analyzing scenarios and innovation trajectories.
  • Assisting in defining or adjusting an R&D strategy.
  • Assessing positioning relative to competitors, partners, or alternatives.
  • Providing insight for decisions related to intellectual property or investments.

 

To guide your decisions and prioritize your actions

In particular, our consulting allows you to:

  • Making decisions in complex or uncertain contexts.
  • Weighing multiple credible options.
  • Ensuring strategic choices are sound from a technological or IP perspective.
  • Aligning your decisions with your medium- and long-term innovation goals.

 

Consulting engagements are generally based on research or intelligence-gathering efforts conducted by our teams or already available to the client.

Making Sense of Information

Training programs to build skills in intellectual property and information analysis.​

A training program rooted in real-world expertise

SCBT-CENTREDOC offers its own training programs in intellectual property and information analysis and works closely with the IEEPI (European Institute for Business and Intellectual Property) as part of its offering of accredited training programs in this field.

Training Courses Covering Fundamentals and Best Practices

Our training courses can cover:

  • The basics of intellectual property.
  • IP strategy and innovation.
  • Research and analysis tools.
  • Best practices in IP.

 

Formats Tailored to Your Needs

Training programs can be offered in various formats and tailored to different audiences, depending on your objectives and context:

  • Group training.
  • In-company training.
    Online training.
  • Presentations at universities and colleges.
  • Training for public institutions and organizations.
Raise the level of knowledge
of your team

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