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Great idea, Andrew! What about SKYPE?
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.
Great Andrew - looking forward to seeing what results ;-)
There are some who can't detect my sarcasm over the Internet, which is fine. For the record, I'm not a fan of any "intelligence" programs that have a now documented, practically-official policy of war crimes. That's not intelligence. For a review of…
Fantastic - that's the point of this umbrella concept, to connect more people in more places with a variety of events in the concept of intelligence. I can't wait to see what you've come up with.
Thinking of placing the outcome from our UK panel event on 9/3 into this group and on Ning to get people to add their comments after the event and add to the anticipated rich tapestry of comment being generated given the calibre of audience, panel c…
I want to hear how to jujitsu the dysfunctional habits of bureaucracies into a plus! Will this be videocast online?
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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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ICI-6 Fundamental CI Analysis Methods at Radisson Blu Hotel, Paris Boulogne
October 14, 2010 at 9am to October 15, 2010 at 6pm
SWOT, industry structure analysis, profiling, portfolio analysis and analysis of competing hypothesis (ACH)
In this workshop, the fundamental methods of Competitivce Intelligence analysis are taught and practiced with examples. Command of these ana…
ICI-2 Competitive Intelligence Projects at Radisson Blu Hotel
October 13, 2010 from 9am to 6pm
For the real world application of CI fundamentals you will work on a complete CI case study
CI basics are taught in this workshop using a case study. The CI process steps are practiced and CI tools and techniques absorbed. With the training from th…
ICI-1 - Competitive Intelligence Basics Workshop at Radisson Blu Hotel, Paris Boulogne
October 11, 2010 at 9am to October 12, 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…
- ICI-1 Competitive Intelligence Basics Workshop on June 21, 2010 at 9pm to June 22, 2010 at 6pm
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I give up. :-)
All,
Thanks for your comments. They stimulated me to think about when I respond affirmatively to implicit or explicit requests for help. Here are my "10 rules" for helping. As I wrote them, I realized that they generally apply whether the subject i…
Shiela,
I never endorsed unethical practices.
I did NOT advocate unethical practices.
What I did was defend a Nation whose comitted people in an agency, post Sept 11, go out of their way to defend Democracy.
I did NOT advocate any clandestine op…
Shiela,
I never endorsed unethical practices.
I did NOT advocate unethical practices.
What I did was defend a Nation whose comitted people in an agency, post Sept 11, go out of their way to defend Democracy.
I did NOT advocate any clandestine op…
Great idea, Andrew! What about SKYPE?
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.
Great Andrew - looking forward to seeing what results ;-)
There are some who can't detect my sarcasm over the Internet, which is fine. For the record, I'm not a fan of any "intelligence" programs that have a now documented, practically-official policy of war crimes. That's not intelligence. For a review of…
Fantastic - that's the point of this umbrella concept, to connect more people in more places with a variety of events in the concept of intelligence. I can't wait to see what you've come up with.
Thinking of placing the outcome from our UK panel event on 9/3 into this group and on Ning to get people to add their comments after the event and add to the anticipated rich tapestry of comment being generated given the calibre of audience, panel c…
I shall explore how others could aprticipate by bringing that age old media, namely conference call, or more one dimensional, we place the outcomes on Ning and get others to comment as they see fit with the PowerPoint used and everything? What do pe…
Vivek, I think yoou have just reinforced the point I was making and have done it much better than I. If you think that Mossad/CIA/MI6/KGB etc has any legitimate connection with CI in the commercial context of doing day to day business then I really…
A forum for those interested in issues around practicing, doing and teaching CI in this region. Get people from the region together on-line, communicate issues, promote CI in the region.
Funny enough I asked a couple of questions which I sent directly to about 25 people in CI. It was a couple of very simple questions for some research for a piece I was doing.
I got two replies
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I have not finish reading it all but indeed it was very helpful.
And thank you for the advise.
Jafni
I'm glad to be in your Competitive Intelligence Network.
I got to your company website. Very interested topics you're addressing. I'll go in deep later and let you know my feed back.
Wish you the best for 2010.
Sincerely yours,
Amine.
- Arik
Looking Forward for a talk
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Sorry to have missed you at the end of the conference yesterday. I enjoyed your presentation very much. Wanted to let you know I've put the blog on our Blogroll at The Playmaker's Standard.
Stay in touch.
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