Industry Building Blocks

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Industry Building Blocks supports decision makers by providing line-of-business information (where head-to-head competition takes place). IBB enables you to best understand your competitive environment from all sides - competitors, substitutes, channels, end buyers, and vendors.

Industry Building Blocks (IBB) provides:

1. Industry information for the top 18,000 global industries.
2. Line-of-business analysis for over ten thousand companies.

IBB Video for: Business Development (Comparing companies side-by-side at the line-of-business level)

IBB Video for: Corporate Planning (Step #1: an industry analysis for each of your company's lines of business)

Industry Building Blocks SlideShare Overview presentations

The IBB Context Engine enhances Big Data analytics at: Discovery Patterns

Make your decision with IBB Precision [TM]

Industry Building Blocks: the first company to define the global economy at the line-of-business (Michael Porter five forces) level.

All of our proprietary information is developed through research.

All company information is 'normalized' using our Industry Building Blocks Classification System [TM].

The IBB industry database is used as the foundation for the Industry Graph.

For CEOs and Development Executives at global investment firms, a technical paper on:

Why a More Precise Industry Classification System Matters

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There are just over 1,000 high-level industries [groups] in NAICS. By comparison, IBB analyzes 18,000 granular industries (that account for 99% of the global economy).

The average Global 500 company competes in just under 30 lines of business.

Each IBB industry is analyzed and defined using the following template for each industry:

Industry Name & Brief Industry Definition

Industry Revenue & Growth Estimates for Five Years

Industry Five Forces information

1. Industry Competitors
- Industry Competitors by Top Corporate Parent
- Industry Competitors by Immediate Parent
- Industry Competitors by Brand

2. Industry Potential Entrants

3. Industry Customers

4. Industry Substitutes

5. Industry Vendor Types

Industry Product & Service Segments

Industry Customer Segments

Industry Channel Segments

Industry Complements

Customer Decision Makers

Customer Purchase Criteria

End Users

Distribution Channel Purchase Criteria

Industry Trends

Economic Trends related to this industry

Geopolitical Trends related to this industry

Technology Trends related to this industry

Industry Uncertainties

Industry Success Factors

Industry Social Responsibilities / Shared Value Opportunities

Industry Keywords (input for Big Data analytics. Example: DiscoveryPatterns.com)

Internet-of-Things Profile (eight IoT relevancy categories to facilitate industry selection)

Generic Industry Processes & Activities

Additional industry-specific information
Cross-References to Other Industry Taxonomies

- Cross-reference to NAICS codes

- Cross-reference to US Cluster codes

- Cross-reference to the UN's ISIC codes

- Built-in functionality to cross-reference any customer-provided industry classification

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Example companies and the number of lines of business (industries) in which they compete:

3M (94)
A Schulman Inc (28)
Accenture (95)
Aetna (30)
Allstate Corporation (35)
Amazon.com (84)
Apple (50)
AstraZenecs (26)

AT&T (56)
Avon Products Inc (43)
BASF (184)
Cabot Corporation (21)
CAF Group (17)

Caterpillar Inc (227)
Clariant (77)

CNH Industrial NV (129)

Corning Inc (70)
Deere & Company (113)
Dell (166)
Dow Chemical (90)

EMC Corporateion (146)

Fujitsu (138)

General Electric (203)
General Mills (57)

Haier Group (83)
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (289)

Hill-Rom Holdings Inc (84)

HP Inc (79)
International Business Machines (651)
JPMorgan Chase (96)

Koch Industries (94)

Kraft Heinz Company (84)
Macy’s Inc (5)
MetLife (64)
Microsoft (195)
Nestle (54)
News Corporation (46)
Oracle (234)

Oshkosh Corporation (22)
Parker Hannifin (403)
PepsiCo (63)

Pfizer (60)
PolyOne Corporation (56)

Procter & Gamble (173)
Qualcomm Incorporated (41)

Royal DSM (45)
Seagate (24)

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP (22)

Toyota Group (76)
UnitedHealth Group (19)

VF Corporation (26)
Volvo Group (72)

Whirlpool (49)

XL Group plc (68)

To view a list of many of the approximately 10,000 companies in the IBB database, view IBB Company List