Mary Ellen Bates and Chris Sherman are back in Australia in November to run their fabulous course on Power Searching. Definitely not to be missed!! Visit our web site - http://www.mindshifts.com.au/ - quote MindShifts and receive a discount! I will…
Babette Bensoussan is the Managing Director of The MindShifts Group, a company specialising in competitive intelligence, strategic planning and strategic marketing projects in the Australasian region. Since 1990, she has undertaken over 300 projects and consulted to Australian and Global Fortune 500 companies as well as SME in strategic business and marketing planning, competitive intelligence, and strategic analysis.
Babette is the 2006 SCIP Meritorious Award Winner – internationally, the highest award and recognition in the field of Competitive Intelligence. She has taught Competitive Intelligence in undergraduate business and MBA programs both in Australia and overseas and was the recipient of the 2006 MGSM Alumni Award.
She is the co-author of “Strategic and Competitive Analysis" which has been translated into five languages and remains in the top 1% of best selling books at Amazon.com. Three years after publication it is still ranked the number one best selling CI book globally. In March 2007, her second co-authored book "Business and Competitive Analysis" was released by the Financial Times Press and in June 2008, "Analysis without Paralysis" was released in the USA.
HI Babetter - keen to reconnect because I see a role for your knowledge + training to support current major bid programs I'm involved with. Am overseases, but expect contact from an associate of mine called Alan Rankins soon.
Regards,
Nathanael
Hi Babette, you are looking fabulous! I will return your call, thank you so much for taking the time. I was in mentoring sessions with 2 fantastic organisations all yesterday afternoon. I will join the other groups you have mentioned and look forward to catching up.
Yes, I am intending to get to Aussie at some stage next year for a holiday, but could easily work that around an Art of Analysis III or Wargaming course! There's also a potential big CI project on the boil tho, and I think it may be beneficial if I pop over and have a chat with you if it goes ahead too.
Yes, I'd love to join the Women in CI group, so have signed up.
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Walter,
I can answer this one. Ok, first "big data" players usually means HP, Oracle, SAP, IBM. These firms are extraordinarily good at handling structured data (ie numbers) in relational databases, but they don't deal well with unstructured data,…
Oh, they are doing CI, lots of it, but they call it other things, like Data mining e.g. They solve many of the same problems but from an engineering perspective
Klaus
I've been turning this one over and can't find a satisfactory explanation.
Why don't we see more 'big data' players doing CI consulting. It seems to me that companies like Google, with absurdly comprehensive environmental data, doing more to move…
Hey Eric,
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