I still remember having a conversation with you at SCIP 08 in San Diego. I attended your workshop and during a break you told me how you have learnt spanish in DC.
Thanks for adding me, I have been reading some links posted in CI. I am totally impressed since wide range of people are here and very interesting topics are shared.
Sincerely,
Selin
Welcome to St. Louis! The musician in you should love it -- it's a great town for all kinds of music. I know the jazz and classical are especially strong. And your love of wine can be indulged at tasting & classes at places like the Wine Merchant. And if the linguist in you loves other nations' foods -- not just languages, there is the International Institute's Festival of Nations the last weekend of August.
Nice to meet you Eric! Hopefully you get back up to VT occasionally.
The focus of your company is really interesting. Do you ever use patents as a data source for making projections? Granted they are already a lagging indicator, but there is a lot of information contained in them that can help to reverse engineer competitors' strategies or extrapolate out new product offerings (e.g. Febreze as an fabric freshener to air freshener).
Nice way to learn a language! Indeed English and Dutch have a lot in common, although Dutch is supposedly impossible to pronounce ;). Thanks for reading my blog, wondered who it was.
Thanks for the invite, and thanks for the nice words about my blog :). I am working on a Dutch version, but I'm happy to know I will at least have one person reading it! You have Dutch roots then?
Sem dúvida que 20 anos de samba e bossa novas são uma grande ajuda. Espero que tenhas aproveitado para te divertires no Carnaval, assumindo que infelizmente não foste até ao Brasil :-).
Abraço,
Miguel
Thanks Eric, completely understand....as with other events we host, we always try and draft something appropriate to increase the value and share with participants. I will ensure that you get a copy of it. Should be a blast. Enjoy the day!
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.
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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I still remember having a conversation with you at SCIP 08 in San Diego. I attended your workshop and during a break you told me how you have learnt spanish in DC.
Nick
Thanks for adding me, I have been reading some links posted in CI. I am totally impressed since wide range of people are here and very interesting topics are shared.
Sincerely,
Selin
The focus of your company is really interesting. Do you ever use patents as a data source for making projections? Granted they are already a lagging indicator, but there is a lot of information contained in them that can help to reverse engineer competitors' strategies or extrapolate out new product offerings (e.g. Febreze as an fabric freshener to air freshener).
~Kate
Regards.
Jeroen
Good to be connected w/you! I hope to engage and we all share/communicate together!
Thanks
Dan
Cheers
Rakesh Mehta
Marketing Head (India)
Astral Heights Web Solutions Pvt Ltd
(A venture by Astral Heights Group)
-----For CI, I will always be a student as there is no limit to explore and learn-----
Abraço,
Miguel
Thank you for reaching out.
Glad to connect!
Cheers,
Miguel
I have not finish reading it all but indeed it was very helpful.
And thank you for the advise.
Jafni
I'm glad to be in your Competitive Intelligence Network.
I got to your company website. Very interested topics you're addressing. I'll go in deep later and let you know my feed back.
Wish you the best for 2010.
Sincerely yours,
Amine.
- Arik
Looking Forward for a talk
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Rishabha SIngh
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