George, It was a great pleasure meeting you in Shanghai also. Many thanks for your well organized and informative magazine...I look forward to seeing you at other events in the future.
At 9:27am on September 12, 2008, Arik Johnson said…
Hi George - sorry I haven't welcomed you to the network yet - but looking forward to seeing you again in November in Shanghai and to your insights on CI here in the community as well.
Long time no news from you, trusting you are doing well.
Before CI, let me know when you will be available for a cup of tea? Give me a call in advance. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
George, I am pleased to see you on this site. I have just joined but am keen to be in touch with other people in the competitive intelligence industry in China. Are you based in Shanghai with a multinational or with your own consultancy?
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.
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…
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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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- Arik
Long time no news from you, trusting you are doing well.
Before CI, let me know when you will be available for a cup of tea? Give me a call in advance. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
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Neil