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- President: Competitive Futures, Inc. Author: "Future Inc.: How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What's Next" I created the discipline of "Future Intelligence," the marriage of tactical CI with long-range future trend analysis. Professional musician, linguist, oenophile, bon vivant.
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- I combine the methodologies of forecasting, trend analysis, and competitive intelligence for leaders of business and government.
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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…
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.
WARNING -- philosophical treatise follows... :-)
Late to this party, but...What's the old line -- something to the effect of "Figures Don't Lie, But Liars Do Figure" ??? Love the AJ quote BTW. And humans are very visual -- many absorb that data fas…
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.
Bad Nauheim has an "Elvis Presley Platz?!?!"
This alone may be reason to go.
That is fine, Eric, I am old enough to understand a friendly hug!
K
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Competitive Intelligence, Government Acquisitions, and a Hallucinogenic Future
With the bankruptcy of General Motors, our economy has finally hopped over the plane’s wing into the Twilight Zone. Not that this event was surprising to anybody with a cursory interest in money or cars - GM bet its future on the world’s endless thirst for bloated Hummers and Yukons and left quality and disruptive innovation to Asian rivals, all while locked into being America’s largest private provider of healthcare and pensions. You can get six Jack Welches, ten Peter Druckers and those guys w… Continue
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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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I still remember having a conversation with you at SCIP 08 in San Diego. I attended your workshop and during a break you told me how you have learnt spanish in DC.
Nick
Thanks for adding me, I have been reading some links posted in CI. I am totally impressed since wide range of people are here and very interesting topics are shared.
Sincerely,
Selin
The focus of your company is really interesting. Do you ever use patents as a data source for making projections? Granted they are already a lagging indicator, but there is a lot of information contained in them that can help to reverse engineer competitors' strategies or extrapolate out new product offerings (e.g. Febreze as an fabric freshener to air freshener).
~Kate
Regards.
Jeroen
Good to be connected w/you! I hope to engage and we all share/communicate together!
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Dan
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Marketing Head (India)
Astral Heights Web Solutions Pvt Ltd
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-----For CI, I will always be a student as there is no limit to explore and learn-----
Abraço,
Miguel
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