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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.
TRIZ: The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving – Systematic Innovation for Technology and Business at Aurora WDC Online Learning Service
June 11, 2009 from 12pm to 1:30pm
Our guest expert, David Conley, will familiarize participants with the scientific discipline of innovation known as TRIZ and its application in the worlds of technology and business. You will learn about the historical evolution of systematic innova…
When I was serving on the board, we had discussed identifying two levels of involvement in the intelligence community.
First was new CI practitioners, be they people who had just entered a full time intelligence job of some sort, or people who had…
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- About Me:
- Intelligence professional and former SCIP board member.
- My Interest in Competitive Intelligence is:
- Advancing the practice of analytical problem solving.
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 4:18pm on May 23, 2009,
Andrew Beurschgens said…
- Good to see you here Michael, welcome abroad and a privilege to have scribbled something on your wall, as Arik johnson puts it!
- At 11:53am on May 20, 2009,
Bonnie Hohhof said…
- Pretty much the same old. Liz is a pre-vet junior at the University of Maine, and Rob is still trying to find himself. Any articles that you're itching to write?
- At 11:18am on May 20, 2009,
Bonnie Hohhof said…
- Hi Michael,
Nice to see you here.
Bonnie
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Thanks Arik, very much appreciated indeed. I'll take a listen
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.
Inteligencia competitiva para los hablamos español o portugués.
Inteligência competitiva para os que falamos português ou espanhol
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…
Strategic Gaming and the Influence of Cultures at The George Inn Pub
September 16, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm
A Case Study focused on “Smart Grid” Development in China
‘The Battle for China’s Smart Grid’ was a public strategy game run on both sides of the Atlantic by Fuld & Company. It was fascinating to observe European and US perspectives on the Chinese…
ICI-1 - Competitive Intelligence Basics Workshop at Best Western Brandywine Valley Inn
September 9, 2010 at 9am to September 10, 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…
Bill, I'm having trouble imagining you being pilloried for posting jobs during a global recession. I hope we have lots of trouble of this sort coming!
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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