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Laura Mitchelson, Managing Director, Amber, Shanghai
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China CI brings together all those using or delivering competitive and market intelligence in China as well as those interested from around the world.
China CI brings together all those using or delivering competitive and market intelligence in China as well as those interested from around the world.
China CI brings together all those using or delivering competitive and market intelligence in China as well as those interested from around the world.
China CI brings together all those using or delivering competitive and market intelligence in China as well as those interested from around the world.
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- About Me:
- I am the Managing Director of Amber, a strategic planning and research firm based in Shanghai. We supply multinationals with market forecasting, lead generation, competitive intelligence and customer satisfaction studies. I have been based in East China for 12 years but enjoy holidays in the north of England on a regular basis!
- Website:
- http://www.amberinsights.com
Latest Activity
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
- ICI-22 Scenario Techniques on June 23, 2010 from 9am to 6pm
- ICI-32 - Early Warning Systems on June 24, 2010 from 9am to 6pm
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.
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Cheers,
- Arik
Cheers,
- Arik
I also miss the rain! I'm an ex-Londoner, living and working in CI in Israel for the last x years (well since 1976). I heard you at the last Atelis meeting in Lisbon. Will you be in Stockholm in June?
I also actually mentioned you to a couple of Info ladies here in Israel last week at a business information conference here in Tel Aviv, as they have an potential interest in China.
Their names are Rina Arad, and Idit Ophir, and their company is called Arad-Ophir (among other things they represent Lexis here in Israel).
best regards
Michael Neugarten
Thanks for your message. Yes, we offer our full suite of services across Asia Pacific including throughout China although, depending on what is required, our coverage is better in bigger cities.
Most of our work in China is conducting supplier audits for US and European consumer goods companies. However, we are doing a number of marketing support activities including retail quality audits for two multi-national consumer goods companies.
The way we generally work is to firstly design a survey protocol and sampling program, develop the data collection forms and then have our reps pick-up and assess for criteria such as labelling, fill levels, shelf coverage and appearance, merchandising etc for their products and those of competitors. Generally the companies do their own analysis of the results.
We actually don't do a lot of work for competitive intel and market research companies which I would like to change. We could effectively become your "arms and legs" on the ground - we collect the data, you present the analysis and recommendations.
Anyway, please let me know if you have any questions and to let me know if we can help you in any way. You can contact me at s.hather@rqa-inc.com
Thanks again for contacting me. Regards, Steve
Great to see you last week - looks like the site is once again loading in China, eh?
- Arik
Are you available on Sunday, March 1 for lunch or dinner (or whatever) with Arik, my husband and me?
Martha
Wish you the best for 2009,
Alex
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