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- About Me:
- Ronald is the Managing Partner of Candela Solutions LLC, a public accounting firm with a national focus on governance, risk and compliance. He works extensively with executive management teams and boards, especially those of public companies registered with the SEC, to; building governance awareness through in-house training, streamlining regulatory compliance efforts, and devising risk assessment tools to empower success.
Prior to forming Candela Solutions in 2003, he was a Principal Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he led performance auditing, internal control, and governance projects. He began his public accounting and consulting career with a California-based CPA firm as a Financial and Compliance Auditor, where he worked extensively with Ernst & Young on joint projects.
Ronald is a nationally recognized speaker on regulatory accountability, business ethics, internal controls, boardroom leadership, and SEC rules & regulations. Mr. Kral was a member of FEI’s Task Force on the COSO Monitoring Guidance Project and has authored numerous articles on governance, risk and compliance. Ronald is a member of the AICPA, FEI, IIA, IMA, and WICPA. He is a licensed CPA in Wisconsin and California, and holds an MBA from Arizona State University and a BBA from the University of Wisconsin. Ron can be reached at rkral@candelasolutions.com.
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- http://www.candelasolutions.com
- My Interest in Competitive Intelligence is:
- Advising companies on leveraging CI within the context of governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
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Thanks Arik, very much appreciated indeed. I'll take a listen
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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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