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What is a Development?

Real-world event or incident, at a particular time, that marks a strategic milestone or strategic development.

Updated over 3 years ago

Every day, HolonOS reads half a million signals from over 50,000 sources in 100+ countries. In real-time, we identify the key strategic developments, organizations and people shaping the global impact economy.

A Development 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.

Every Development on the platform includes

  • A short machine learning generated summary of the development

  • Classifications on the development type, significance and sentiment

  • Industry and Geographic Classifications

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

  • 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.

Development Types

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

Significance and Impact

Each development is currently assigned an 'impact' rating by our Intelligence Unit of Minor, Medium or Major. These ratings are absolute global ratings and are not relative to each market. The following general guide applies to impact ratings:

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

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

We are now moving to HolonOS calculated Significance scores between 0 and 5 which quantitatively score the significance of the development.

Sentiment

The general market sentiment of a development is classified as positive, negative or neutral. This reflects overall sentiment, given that specific sentiment will vary for different parties e.g. a regulatory development can be positive for some and negative for others.

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