Although I did not attend the SCIP conference, I read SCIP Vice-President Scott Leeb's speech to the conference with considerable interest.
In this speech he states that "SCIP will operate as a part of the Frost and Sullivan Institute, and operatio…
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Ken hi
I have a small request - if the article doesn't directly link the CI discipline to ..... then why are you? It's you who raise the perception ... the associations you so wish to dispel are in your head.
It seems to me that this is one of the…
Here's a small challenge: for all those who seem to think that any process rooted in organizations can exist, flourish, and attract good people WITHOUT at least, having some related academic activity, I'd be curious to hear about such a sub-area. As…
I'm originally from the UK, with a background is in physics and optical engineering, and recently completed a management doctorate (at the Swiss University of St Gallen), on "Noticing noticing: the role of noticing in the praxis of Competitive Intelligence", which draws on many disciplines to help us understand better vision-related and other parallels between how we do and don't see, and how organizations do and don't notice their external environments.
I work at a large aerospace company in Israel, and teach CI at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, at Henley Business School in the UK, at the College of Management, in Israel, and elsewhere.
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Indeed so, I am in Airport City, also originally from UK. I look forward to participating in many discussions as I begin this daunting process of initiating a CI unit here at Kenes International. I will no doubt be seeking any advice that professionals such as yourself would be able to give me. In fact one such question is how to I convince my superiors that membership of SCIP would be a good start?
Hello Michael. Would you be interested in participating in a webinar on a European time zone? The UK has secured the content through the great Tim Powell and a very recession centric issue, namely Bottom Line ROI. What conditions would make it appeal to a your local conditions in Israel? Welcome your response, Michael and enjoy the day.
Dear Michael
do you have any background material / url with regard to the HSG doctorate you're mentioning? I'm very interested to find out more about CI courses on a university level in Europe.
Kind regards from Switzerland
Robert
Nice to meet you in Lisbon last week! I was very pleased to listen to your presentation. I am wondering if you would participate in my forum. I think that your "view" of Intelligence will make a significant contribution.
Welcome!
Hopefully we can all meet up in Rome in the autumn for SCIP Europe. In the meantime, there is the CI meeting this Thursday and Friday in Lisbon, organized by Atelis and CEGE - I'll be presenting there, and the program looks very promising.
Regards
Michael
Digimind has several job openings in the CI field and on the vendor side (sales, marketing).
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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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