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Development Taxonomy

How HolonIQ helps you track dozens of strategic market development types to stay ahead and track key trends.

First, what is a Development? It is a real-world event or incident, at a particular time, that marks a strategic milestone or strategic development for an organization, market, sector or geography. You can access tens of thousands of Developments and filter / organize by segment, geography, type, and cluster.

 

Every Development on the platform includes

  • A short machine learning-generated summary of the development.

  • Classifications on the development type, significance, sentiment, industry, and geography.

  • An image from one of the sources from which  HolonOS inferred this Development.

  • Organizations and People who are mentioned by the source signals as related to the Development.

  • Key Quotes and Numbers identified by HolonOS when reading through the sources

  • The source Signals including press releases, wires, news articles and company announcements but not including opinions, editorials or other non-event-based documents.

Each Development is Categorized along a 28-part Taxonomy

HolonIQ classifies each Development into one of the following categories and types.

Category

Type

Description

Event

Conference

An industry conference or summit.

 

Meeting

A government or non-government meeting.

Finance

Acquisition

Mergers and Acquisitions

 

Investment

Public and Private Funding

 

IPO

Initial Public Offerings

 

Rating

Credit and Institutional Ratings

 

Results

Financial and Non-Financial Results

Growth

Contract

Award of a major contract

 

Initiative

Launch of a major initiative

 

Market

Entry or exit from markets

 

Partnership

New partnerships

 

Product

Announcement of a new product or service

Negative

Closure

Closure of a business

 

Fraud

Fraud incident

 

Incident

General negative incident

 

Layoffs

Staff layoffs

 

Legal

Legal event

People

Appointment

Senior executive appointment

 

Resignation

Senior executive resignation

Recognition

Award

Industry Award

 

List

Announced on a List

 

Rankings

Ranking Announcement

Research

Market Size

Estimate or Forecast of a Market Size

 

Report

Launch of a Report or Study

Policy

Policy

Launch of a new policy

 

Regulatory

Launch of new regulations

 

Sanction

Sanctions applied

Other

Other

Other

 

How are Developments Sourced?

Every day, HolonOS reads a million signals from over 50,000 sources in 100+ countries and classifies each one into every category detailed above (equivalent to about one classification every 83 milliseconds). Every day this technology undertakes the synthesis and categorization capacity of approximately 1,000 analaysts to understand the organizations and people shaping the global impact economy. 

Significance and Impact

Each development is currently assigned an 'impact' rating by our Intelligence Unit on a scale of 0-5. These ratings are absolute global ratings and are not relative to each market. The following general guide applies to impact ratings:

  • Highest scoring development are often considered significant events across more than one region and/or sector. They have global or multi-region impact either directly or indirectly.

  • Medium scoring developments are significant within one region or sector.

  • Low scoring developments impact certain countries and sectors or sub-sectors specifically. They may mark a small but important milestone.