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Tom Hawes

What don't CI people help each other more often? 14 Replies

This may seem like a strange topic in a forum designed for interaction and help. (Probably the people here are more likely to help others than the general population of CI professionals.)Nevertheless…

Started by Tom Hawes. Last reply by Tadeusz Lemańczyk 21 hours ago.

Nimalan

Best companies to work for..... as CI / market / business analysts 11 Replies

Fortune came out with its "100 best companies to work for" rankings. So if we had to do a similiar ranking of the "best companies for an intelligence analyst" to work for, what would be the parameter…

Started by Nimalan. Last reply by Vivek Raghuvanshi 1 day ago.

Michael J Finnegan

Please take this short survey for strategic analysis research! “Examing SWOT analysis to determine more effective methods of strategic analysis”

If you are an executive, in upper level management, or at all involved in strategic planning, please take a few minutes to answer a handful of questions concerning the use and understanding of SWOT a…

Tagged: Thesis, Analysis, Research, Survey

Started by Michael J Finnegan Feb 5.

Tom Hawes

Short Competitive Intelligence Survey 3 Replies

I am conducting a survey of people involved in or affected by competitive intelligence. The survey is short and will take only a few minutes to complete. The questions include: What is your relatio…

Started by Tom Hawes. Last reply by Tom Hawes Feb 4.

Chris Hote

Hiring CI employees 17 Replies

I currently have a job offer for a CI position (see attached for whom concerned) in Cambridge, MA and found quite a dry market until now. Do you share this view point in your area? Recruiting CI emp…

Tagged: hiring, ci, human, resources, management

Started by Chris Hote. Last reply by Chris Hote Jan 28.

Kieran Michael Brown

New Technology for CI - What's Your Favorite? 59 Replies

What other types of new technology, especially "web 2.0" tools, do you find valuable? I'm thinking of tools like technorati, del.icoi.us and Linkedin and custom RSS feeds. I suppose you could include…

Tagged: social bookmarking, plaza, rss, podcast, matrix

Started by Kieran Michael Brown. Last reply by Alessandro Comai Jan 18.

Melanie Wing

Video Gaming for CI 6 Replies

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUS link is to an article about how video gaming might help forensic investigators determine what happened at the scene of a crime. Do you think there…

Started by Melanie Wing. Last reply by Alessandro Comai Jan 18.

Vivek Raghuvanshi

Strategic Inflection Points - Must have a place in Competitive Intelligence Glossary - To Generate EARLY WARNING. 4 Replies

With due respect to the wisdom of the CI Brotherhood, Competitive Intelligence glossary is incomplete without the mention of "Strategic Inflection Points" Strategic Inflection Points have been coine…

Started by Vivek Raghuvanshi. Last reply by Vivek Raghuvanshi Jan 18.

Michael J Finnegan

The Dungarvan Conference 2010 - Analytic Best Practices

July 11 - 13, 2010 Dungarvan, Ireland Experts from various fields will discuss best practices involved in analyzing or evaluating data, drawing analytical conclusions and constructing future-oriente…

Tagged: Experts, Analysis, Best, Intelligence, Practices

Started by Michael J Finnegan Jan 15.

monica nixon

REPOST : Why all this listen to the customer fluff is misguided 1 Reply

Apologize, last link wasnt in full. See here: http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/06/innovation-custom

Started by monica nixon. Last reply by Vivek Raghuvanshi Jan 13.

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Hanene MAGHREBI

Beaulieu sur Mer - 25 - 26 November 2009

GDR-IE: a research group on Economic Intelligence created by French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has organised a workshop in Beaulieu sur Mer-france 25-26 November 2009

Title : Models, Methods, Engineering of Competitive Intelligence - Villa Kerylos - Beaulieu sur Mer - 25 - 26 November 2009 ( Posted in Europe, janury 22nd, 2010: http://s244543015.onlinehome.fr/ciworldwide/?p=807 ).



This is the 25th and 26th o… Continue

Posted by Hanene MAGHREBI on January 25, 2010 at 4:53pm

Vivek Raghuvanshi

Competitive Intelligence INSIGHT – Dealing with Insurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan and India.

I have attempted to generate Insight using Competitive Intelligence to enter the mind of Insurgent Leaders in Iraq, Afghanistan and India, to assist law enforcement agencies in their quest for Competitive Intelligence to outflank and outmaneuver Insurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan and India, thereby making "Emerging Markets" in Middle East and Africa and Asia more conducive to "Foreign Investment" and hence "Mitigating Risks of Globalization for International Businesses".

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Posted by Vivek Raghuvanshi on January 23, 2010 at 1:30am — 1 Comment

Christophe ASSELIN

Event: Competitive Intelligence in pharma conference Nice-France (jan 27-28)

Digimind will participate in the “Competitive Intelligence in pharma” conference in Nice, French Rivieria, France.
This is the biggest conference for competitive intelligence practitioners from the Pharmaceutical Industry.
The conference is scheduled for 2 days, the 27th-28th January 2010.

For all participants, this will be the opportunity to discover and understand Digimind, one of world’s leading competitive intelligence software providers.

Digimind product suite allows the Pharma Industry t… Continue

Posted by Christophe ASSELIN on January 12, 2010 at 4:18am

Richard

What are your favoirte competitive intelligence books (blogs, web sites, media)?

I am reading Seena Sharp's Competitive Intelligence Advantage and it is quickly becoming one of my favorites. I have read other books, but got little practical use out of them--they were much to academic. I am trying to compile a recommended bibliography for our new practitioners that want to learn more. What are your favorite books, web sites, blogs, podcasts--anything you use to keep up with competitive intelligence and anything you use to sharpen your skills?

Posted by Richard on January 6, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Seena Sharp

New Book Announcement

Hear ye! Hear ye! I am proud to announce the publication of my new book, Competitive Intelligence Advantage: How to Minimize Risk, Avoid Surprises, and Grow Your Business in a Changing World (Wiley).

This book is an essential manual for the business community, and specifically for executives and management who are unfamiliar with CI or who think CI is something like market research or business intelligence, neither of which are true.

The book provides a clear discourse into the power of CI and… Continue

Posted by Seena Sharp on December 13, 2009 at 3:53pm — 8 Comments

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ICI-1 - Competitive Intelligence Basics Workshop at Radisson Blu Hotel, Paris Boulogne
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Achieving competitive advantage through systematic competitor and market analysis In times of increasing competition and complex, fast-moving competitive environments, it is important to be one step ahead of the competition. Businesses have to anti…
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Tadeusz Lemańczyk replied to Tom Hawes's discussion 'What don't CI people help each other more often?'
I give up. :-)
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Tom Hawes replied to Tom Hawes's discussion 'What don't CI people help each other more often?'
All, Thanks for your comments. They stimulated me to think about when I respond affirmatively to implicit or explicit requests for help. Here are my "10 rules" for helping. As I wrote them, I realized that they generally apply whether the subject i…
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Vivek Raghuvanshi replied to Nimalan's discussion 'Best companies to work for..... as CI / market / business analysts'
Shiela, I never endorsed unethical practices. I did NOT advocate unethical practices. What I did was defend a Nation whose comitted people in an agency, post Sept 11, go out of their way to defend Democracy. I did NOT advocate any clandestine op…
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Vivek Raghuvanshi replied to Tom Hawes's discussion 'What don't CI people help each other more often?'
Shiela, I never endorsed unethical practices. I did NOT advocate unethical practices. What I did was defend a Nation whose comitted people in an agency, post Sept 11, go out of their way to defend Democracy. I did NOT advocate any clandestine op…
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Ellen Naylor commented on Eric Garland's group 'The Intelligence Collaborative'
Great idea, Andrew! What about SKYPE?
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Christophe Deschamps joined Eric Garland's group
The Intelligence Collaborative
A collective of professionals and passionate amateurs around the globe who analyze a world in transition and help guide leaders in their most critical decisions.
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Arik Johnson commented on Eric Garland's group 'The Intelligence Collaborative'
Great Andrew - looking forward to seeing what results ;-)
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Eric Garland replied to Nimalan's discussion 'Best companies to work for..... as CI / market / business analysts'
There are some who can't detect my sarcasm over the Internet, which is fine. For the record, I'm not a fan of any "intelligence" programs that have a now documented, practically-official policy of war crimes. That's not intelligence. For a review of…
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Eric Garland commented on Eric Garland's group 'The Intelligence Collaborative'
Fantastic - that's the point of this umbrella concept, to connect more people in more places with a variety of events in the concept of intelligence. I can't wait to see what you've come up with.
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Andrew Beurschgens commented on Eric Garland's group 'The Intelligence Collaborative'
Thinking of placing the outcome from our UK panel event on 9/3 into this group and on Ning to get people to add their comments after the event and add to the anticipated rich tapestry of comment being generated given the calibre of audience, panel c…
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Andrew Beurschgens commented on Andrew Beurschgens's event 'Panel Debate: Professional Effectiveness and Personal Improvement as a CI Practitioner'
I shall explore how others could aprticipate by bringing that age old media, namely conference call, or more one dimensional, we place the outcomes on Ning and get others to comment as they see fit with the PowerPoint used and everything? What do pe…
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Sheila Wright replied to Nimalan's discussion 'Best companies to work for..... as CI / market / business analysts'
Vivek, I think yoou have just reinforced the point I was making and have done it much better than I. If you think that Mossad/CIA/MI6/KGB etc has any legitimate connection with CI in the commercial context of doing day to day business then I really…
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CI in Eastern Europe
A forum for those interested in issues around practicing, doing and teaching CI in this region. Get people from the region together on-line, communicate issues, promote CI in the region.
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Graeme Dixon replied to Tom Hawes's discussion 'What don't CI people help each other more often?'
Funny enough I asked a couple of questions which I sent directly to about 25 people in CI. It was a couple of very simple questions for some research for a piece I was doing. I got two replies
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Tadeusz Lemańczyk replied to Tom Hawes's discussion 'What don't CI people help each other more often?'
Therefore, what do you think about the following? Competitive Intelligence Code of the U.S. Fighting Force: 6 Code of Conduct V. a. When questioned, should I become a prisoner of war, I am required to give name, rank, service number, and date of b…
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Vivek Raghuvanshi replied to Tom Hawes's discussion 'What don't CI people help each other more often?'
Competitive Intelligence Knights of the Round Table: Always to flee treason Not to attack one another
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