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Newsletter OSINT № 36 -37 (March - June 2014) Research Center Viktora Voksanaeva

Newsletter OSINT № 36 -37 (March - June 2014) Research Center Viktora Voksanaeva Dear Colleagues! Read the informational materials that are posted July 20, 2014 in the newsletter OSINT № 36 -37 (March - June 2014) on the site of the Research Center Viktora Voksanaeva. I hope that the material will be useful to all analysts. Sincerely, V. Voksanaev Content OSINT Journal RISS - Problems of…See More

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Has your professional services firm been blindsided by globalization, disruptive innovations, or new competitors? Would your professional services firm benefit from the insights competitive intelligence can offer? Are you curious if your skill set and competitive intelligence experience would be a good fit in a professional services environment?Professional services firms (e.g., legal, accounting, medical, consulting, engineering, architectural) can be rewarding workplaces for Competitive…See More

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“We Never Meant to Upset You,” Facebook Says of Study That Was Meant to Upset You

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Facebook is sorry, a company executive said Wednesday. It’s not sorry, mind you, for that study in which it tried to see if it could manipulate people’s emotions by putting more positive or negative content in their feeds. Why would it be sorry for that? That was just “ongoing…

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Online Homeland security: The Journal of #Intelligence Studies in Business Vol 4, No 1 (2014)

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Pradhuman Singh replied to Sandro Tavares's discussion What is the relation between CI Pros and Data Scientists? Wouldn't the future of CI PROs to become Data Scientists?

"Hi Sandro I had been following this discussion for the last two years, and trust me, the answer to this question will have far reaching impact. Traditionally as intelligence professionals, qualitative information would have been the cornerstone of…"

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Newsletter OSINT № 36 -37 (March - June 2014) Research Center Viktora Voksanaeva

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Newsletter OSINT № 36 -37 (March - June 2014) Research Center Viktora Voksanaeva Dear Colleagues! Read the informational materials that are posted July 20, 2014 in the…Continue

Online Homeland security: The Journal of #Intelligence Studies in Business Vol 4, No 1 (2014)

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What is the relation between CI Pros and Data Scientists? Wouldn't the future of CI PROs to become Data Scientists?

Started by Sandro Tavares. Last reply by Pradhuman Singh Jun 27. 20 Replies 3 Likes

IBM: What is a data scientisthttp://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/data-scientist/HBR: Data Scientist: The…Continue

Competitive Intelligence For Dummies Book

Started by Richard. Last reply by Pradhuman Singh Jun 27. 5 Replies 0 Likes

I just finished reading Jim Underwood's Book and stand by my analysis. He cites no references in the entire book yet has the gall to spend a great deal of time on validating information and…Continue

Literature on CI and personnel recruitment?

Started by Marcel Brussee. Last reply by Pradhuman Singh Jun 27. 5 Replies 0 Likes

Trying to help a connection to prepare for a Master's thesis, I am looking for authors of "scientific results" about "advantages of competitive intelligence in terms of active search for potential…Continue

How terrorists use Competitive Intelligence

Started by Vivek Raghuvanshi Jun 2. 0 Replies 0 Likes

How terrorists use Competitive Intelligence:- "Try to think like a terrorist for a second. Would you like to get—free-of-charge—satellite services? Of course, you would," says Gabriel Weimann."Now…Continue

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SCIP 2014: Fail Continued

Started by Trip Krant. Last reply by Trip Krant Apr 25. 2 Replies 1 Like

29th Annual Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals International Conference & ExhibitionThis year's…Continue

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ICI Competitive Intelligence Training feedback

Started by Richard Apr 18. 0 Replies 0 Likes

I would like to know if anyone has attended any of the Institute for Competitive Intelligence (ICI) training. I am looking for feedback on the courses they offer. We may have some training dollars…Continue

Newbie Guidance

Started by Alisa Cox. Last reply by Richard Mar 7. 4 Replies 0 Likes

I am new to the private sector CI world after transitioning from active duty military intelligence as an interrogator. For those of you that have been in the business a while, what guidance can you…Continue

What resources and tools do you use to do a company profile

Started by Richard. Last reply by Trip Krant Mar 6. 1 Reply 1 Like

I am working through all my tools,subscriptons and techniques this year to revamp how we do company profiles. I wanted to see what others use. I will share if you do! Here is my tool…Continue

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Social Networking Sites and Employees

Posted by Tony Steele on April 5, 2014 at 5:44pm 2 Comments 0 Likes

Yahoo just published an article that I wrote about Soldiers and the use of Social Networking Sites. The article can be viewed here:

http://voices.yahoo.com/us-soldiers-social-networking-sites-more-than-12591417.html

Since Soldiers are notorious for…

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Top Five Signs That You Need to Invest in Competitive Intelligence

Posted by kalie moore on March 17, 2014 at 7:21am 0 Comments 0 Likes

Here at Rivalfox, we believe every company should invest in competitive intelligence. By that we don’t mean you should go out and hire a CI expert to join your team, but instead that everyone in your company should take an active part. More and more business developers, product managers, and growth hackers are integrating CI into their repertoire to win their markets. This does not need to be time consuming; with CI SaaS, in thirty seconds or less, you will understand your competitors’…

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Competitive Intelligence report on Cyberwarfare with respect to Pakistan

Posted by Alex Ziaullah Mirza on March 6, 2014 at 12:39pm 0 Comments 1 Like

Cyberwarfare which is known-ed to be the actions by a nation-state to penetrate another nation’s computers or networks for the purposes of causing damage or disruption.

Cyber warfare is a relatively new concept whereby politically motivated hackers and Computer scientists develop means of causing disruption or damage to a government’s IT system and network infrastructure. There are various techniques that fall under cyber-warfare such as a virus or …

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Do you measure customer loyalty?

Posted by Varsha Chitale on March 6, 2014 at 2:38am 0 Comments 0 Likes

Customer is King – the raison d'être of every business. It is therefore imperative for all businesses to listen to their customers.

Customer loyalty in particular is of immense value to any company. High customer loyalty indicates that your company is doing a key part of its job right. It also means that you have to try less…

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New Blog and an Intro to Cynefin and CI

Posted by Trip Krant on February 10, 2014 at 9:30am 1 Comment 0 Likes

I have started a new blog named Rethinking Competitive Intelligence that is about, you guessed it, rethinking the field of competitive intelligence. Rethinking CI is an open notebook dedicated to bringing competitive intelligence into the 21st century.

The first in a series introducing the Cynefin…

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