Responding to overwhelming feedback (up to 88%) from CI professionals, Reckitt Benckiser’s Safi Ghauri will be taking the audience through the findings of his own research exploring the factors that influence the flow of competitive information with…
At 12:32am on September 18, 2009, Keith Spicer said…
Hi Kevan, apologies for shorthand: A Aston, B Boy, E Edwardian, O Old.. Was at King Eds GS Aston - goes back a long way.
At 11:27pm on September 15, 2009, Keith Spicer said…
Yep, a brummie!. - born within a penalty kick of the Holte End and an OB of Aston OE.
Will be glad to help out where I can, we travel extensively. Just let me know.
At 4:57pm on September 15, 2009, Keith Spicer said…
Hello Kevan, we are feeling the effects of the downturn as much as our competitors and clients. Fortunately we have some long term contracts which are not affected. However, now is the time to broaden our skills and expand our portfolio of services. What business are you in? And where in B'ham do you live? How is Newton Rd and Great Barr? I haven't been home for many years now. Most of my family moved to the Peak District in the 70s and 80s. Cheers!
Yes Stephen,
The dilemma in information collection:
Is casting wide net [ CWN } appropriate or the Kingfisher approach.
Joining random isolated dots and the ability to see the big picture.
I believe it is the ability to read the subtle emissions…
Tad Sir,
Ha..ha..ha.. LOL.
Client References! There are many ways to interpret this.
Sometimes we use it for branding, and sometimes because we want to show our competence.
We are like the Chef. We have our own signature, and nobody can replicat…
Don't worry, Vivek! None of us is suspicious to such a degree as to be paralyzed. However, none of us is simultaneously as gullible as Roger Prince, Sr. in the video ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/client-lists ) quoted in one of my comments on Bonni…
Hi Vivek. Thanks for writing! It's the timeless dilemma - we (or our clients) need the information, but if we were 100% honest and transparent about EVERYTHING with a source we would never obtain it.
For the record, I'm not here to cast judgement o…
Way to have a good time last night! Thanks for coming to our dinner, all 37 of us! We sort of took over the upper level of the Meskerem and had a memorable experience together as we mopped up the Ethiopian cuisine with the spongy bread that replaces…
Stephen,
The wheels of Deception.
Just a little bit of humor:-
One type of Deception can be advocate competitive intelligence very strongly and fool the world into believing that we are holier than thou.
This way the world will believe that we a…
James,
Well, first I think referring to this as a "value analysis project" or surmising that the Value Analysis methodology is appropriate for this kind of question set isn't accurate. VA and it's counterpart, FAST, tend to be frameworks for NPD re…
I think we'll have a good 20 people tonight since Martha and her gang of 5 or so are also coming! remember the reservation is under "Ellen". I thought Intelligence Collaborative would be too long especially when they didn't even want to take my last…
Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant
Join us for dinner after SCIP at 7:30 PM in the charming Adams Morgan neighborhood. Meskerem is 0.8 miles from the SCIP Conference at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park.
Check out the http://meskeremethiopianfood.c…
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Will be glad to help out where I can, we travel extensively. Just let me know.
No worries. All is well here. Hope you are doing fine too.
Arent
It looks like we frequent the same places. I wish they were pubs :)
Nice to find you here.
Eliana.
Best regards,
Fernando