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- About Me:
- Strategic Planning, Business Intelligence, and New Product Introduction experience in the pharmaceutical and technology industries. I currently work at Quintiles Transnational.
- My Interest in Competitive Intelligence is:
- Early warning systems, scenario planning, translating macro developments into actionable corporate strategies.
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Missed again, darn! Hope you enjoy the SCIP conference.
My pleasure.
Great links! Thanks.
http://knol.google.com/k/interviewing-and-elicitation-in-competitive-intelligence#
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The sad truth is that many rogue consultants do exist within the competitive intelligence community. They will lie, cheat, and steal to obtain infor…
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…
UAV is a machine with many intelligence gathering uses, isn't it ( http://fedcba.ning.com/xn/detail/2516803:Comment:9429 )? :-)
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…
Intelligence Collaborative Dinner at Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant
March 10, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
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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