PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS BELGIUM BRUSSELS ANTWERP

août 13th, 2008

While the general perception of the fast-growing field of private investigation is that it's nonstop excitement, local private investigators say that much of the work is tedious.

It requires a lot of patience and common sense. "It's got to be in your blood. You don't think it's neat when you're sitting there for 12 to 15 hours watching day turn to night."

But many PIs -- a field expected to grow 18 to 26 percent through 2014 -- don't conduct surveillance anymore because many investigative cases aren't the lurk-in-the-shadows variety the public typically thinks of.

COMPANY ESPIONAGE

août 8th, 2008

A TAIWANESE company and two of its former executives were sentenced and fined for stealing trade secrets from adhesives maker Avery Dennison Corp., Pasadena, Calif. It was the first case tried under the 1996 Economic Espionage Act. In another case, a leak of early design information cost a mediumsized producer of consumer electronics goods some $35 million in anticipated sales when a competitor obtained the information and used it to introduce its own version of the product twice as fast as the item's originator expected.

PRE EMPLOYMENT SCREENINGS

août 7th, 2008

How to choose the best ones.

Tired of turnover? Don't trust your intuition? When it comes to making hiring decisions, a completed application form and an interview may not be enough. Add in the right pre-employment screening tool, and it can point you to the most appropriate person for the job. But with so many companies providing a multitude of assessments and consultation services, how do you know which ones to use?

DUE DILIGENCE

août 6th, 2008

FINANCIAL DUE DILIGENCE SERVICES is a discipline lacking definition, scope, clarity and agreement in Australia within the accounting profession. The poor cousin among financial disciplines, it has no mandatory requirements, yet the impact of properly conducting (or not conducting) financial due diligence can have a stunning impact on investment returns.