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Keep in mind the majority of us practicing Competitive Intelligence today do not have degrees in Intelligence, because the option to obtain a degree is still very new. It's been my experience that large corporations traditionally target well-known u…
20100226 Intelligence Collaborative Teleconference at Online & via Teleconference
February 26, 2010 from 8am to 9am
The next Intel Collab Telecon will feature an open discussion to brainstorm topics for future presentation and experiment with moving the call ahead a few hours to 9:00 AM Eastern time to gauge effects on attendance and engagement. If you're able, p…
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- My Interest in Competitive Intelligence is:
- Competitive Intelligence professional with comprehensive global experience building best-in-class Competitive Intelligence team in highly matrixed organization and interfacing with corporate executives. Reliable and flexible international business practitioner with an MBA, an engineering foundation and 17 year’s experience developing, improving and launching products and services.
Currently, Establishing a competitive intelligence function in the strategy organization for Walgreens, Inc. based in Deerfield, IL.
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 11:14am on June 11, 2010,
August Jackson said…
- Welcome to the CI Ning group!
- At 9:57am on July 28, 2009,
Ellen Naylor said…
- Welcome to our CI Ning! Sorry to miss you this trip to Chicago. Hopefully I'll be back again when you're in town! Best, Ellen
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Thanks Arik, very much appreciated indeed. I'll take a listen
Digimind has several job openings in the CI field and on the vendor side (sales, marketing).
More information may be found at http://www.digimind.com/cat/news/jobs
For more details contact me.
Inteligencia competitiva para los hablamos español o portugués.
Inteligência competitiva para os que falamos português ou espanhol
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,
Very nice, I really like your critical dissection of the author's convoluted and ultimately flawed, thought process which you laid out very articulately. Precisely right, what exactly is the difference here? The issue of direct vs indirec…
Strategic Gaming and the Influence of Cultures at The George Inn Pub
September 16, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm
A Case Study focused on “Smart Grid” Development in China
‘The Battle for China’s Smart Grid’ was a public strategy game run on both sides of the Atlantic by Fuld & Company. It was fascinating to observe European and US perspectives on the Chinese…
ICI-1 - Competitive Intelligence Basics Workshop at Best Western Brandywine Valley Inn
September 9, 2010 at 9am to September 10, 2010 at 6pm
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…
Bill, I'm having trouble imagining you being pilloried for posting jobs during a global recession. I hope we have lots of trouble of this sort coming!
So, to take this author's point:
Gathering, analyzing and disseminating information sponsored by a major media source financed directly by a combination of pharma, oil, and automotive companies: ethically honorable.
Gathering, analyzing and dissem…
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