I own my own firm, MarketingBase, specializing in industry, company and competitive and market intelligence research. I teach distance education courses in Competitive Intelligence Research and Information Entrepreneurship at San Jose State University School of Library & Information Science. I also teach information entrepreneurship for the University of Tennessee School of Information Science and the Simmons GSLIS CE program with the following workshops fully online: How to Conduct Effective Company Research, Advanced Google and Beyond, Secret Formula for Quality Business Research http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/continuinged/workshops/online.shtml#on...
I'm the author of The Super Searchers on Wall Street and contribute to Searcher Magazine and other information industry publications. I developed a one-on-one email-based training, The Mentor Program, for business researchers in corporations and independent research professionals who are starting or wishing to expand their research businesses.
My goal is to team up with other CI specialists who require training or assistance in the development of strategic information.
Hello Amelia, I was in your Competitive Intelligence class at SJSU a few semesters ago, and it has been extremely helpful in designing my deliverables at work. I just signed up for this group. May I add you as a friend?
Yes Stephen,
The dilemma in information collection:
Is casting wide net [ CWN } appropriate or the Kingfisher approach.
Joining random isolated dots and the ability to see the big picture.
I believe it is the ability to read the subtle emissions…
Tad Sir,
Ha..ha..ha.. LOL.
Client References! There are many ways to interpret this.
Sometimes we use it for branding, and sometimes because we want to show our competence.
We are like the Chef. We have our own signature, and nobody can replicat…
Don't worry, Vivek! None of us is suspicious to such a degree as to be paralyzed. However, none of us is simultaneously as gullible as Roger Prince, Sr. in the video ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/client-lists ) quoted in one of my comments on Bonni…
Hi Vivek. Thanks for writing! It's the timeless dilemma - we (or our clients) need the information, but if we were 100% honest and transparent about EVERYTHING with a source we would never obtain it.
For the record, I'm not here to cast judgement o…
Way to have a good time last night! Thanks for coming to our dinner, all 37 of us! We sort of took over the upper level of the Meskerem and had a memorable experience together as we mopped up the Ethiopian cuisine with the spongy bread that replaces…
Stephen,
The wheels of Deception.
Just a little bit of humor:-
One type of Deception can be advocate competitive intelligence very strongly and fool the world into believing that we are holier than thou.
This way the world will believe that we a…
James,
Well, first I think referring to this as a "value analysis project" or surmising that the Value Analysis methodology is appropriate for this kind of question set isn't accurate. VA and it's counterpart, FAST, tend to be frameworks for NPD re…
I think we'll have a good 20 people tonight since Martha and her gang of 5 or so are also coming! remember the reservation is under "Ellen". I thought Intelligence Collaborative would be too long especially when they didn't even want to take my last…
Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant
Join us for dinner after SCIP at 7:30 PM in the charming Adams Morgan neighborhood. Meskerem is 0.8 miles from the SCIP Conference at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park.
Check out the http://meskeremethiopianfood.c…
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Best regards,
Eric
John
Cheers,
- Arik