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Seena Sharp

"Neither Competitive Nor Intelligent" 1 Reply

I thought I saw this title for a SCIP chapter meeting. Does anyone have more info?

Started by Seena Sharp. Last reply by Arik Johnson Jul 3.

Arik Johnson

What were the Best Business Books of 2008? 18 Replies

I just put up a list of my favorite business books from 2008 on my blog and thought I'd cross post it here for discussion. Did I miss any that people are particularly broken-hearted about? Here's t...

Tagged: books

Started by Arik Johnson. Last reply by Carlo Velten Jul 3.

Rob Duncan

"Duplicity" starring Julia Roberts & Clive Owens: is it a CI movie? 18 Replies

Have you seen the trailers for the new Julia Roberts/Clive Owens movie? http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=gkx2vYNE9V0 you say this is a movie about CI, however exaggerated? It got me wondering if th...

Started by Rob Duncan. Last reply by Arthur Weiss Jul 2.

Richard

Sorting through the thousands of daily messages and postings 1 Reply

I have always had my favorite sites to scrape daily for information, but now that I am doing CA/CA full time I have increased my sources a hundred fold. Subscriptions were jamming the e-mail box,,,...

Started by Richard. Last reply by August Jackson Jul 2.

Marcia Rodney

Tracking web site changes 7 Replies

a Colorado colleague, David Selden from the Native American Rights Fund, http://www.narf.org, wrote me asking for web site alert/monitoring tools, subscription OK. While familiar with the products ...

Tagged: tracking, alerts, monitoring, tools

Started by Marcia Rodney. Last reply by Carlo Velten Jul 2.

Bill Fiora

Mindset is more important than skillset for CI - Discuss 45 Replies

Over the past few years, I've had conversations with colleagues and clients about how to hire for CI positions. The longer I do this work, the more I seek out those who think a particular way rathe...

Started by Bill Fiora. Last reply by Vivek Raghuvanshi Jul 2.

Tadeusz Lemańczyk

Douglas Bernhardt's thought on counterintelligence 15 Replies

Are you as much interested in counterintelligence as I am [conducting the blended course Information security ( http://triton.cs.put.poznan.pl/platon/files/opisyP ) for my students there ( http://f...

Started by Tadeusz Lemańczyk. Last reply by Tadeusz Lemańczyk Jul 1.

August Jackson

Strategic Secrecy and Excellence 2 Replies

I always look forward to Ken Sawka and company's "Looking Out" newsletter in my e-mail in-box. The articles are usually very challenging and expand my own understanding of the relevance of curren b...

Started by August Jackson. Last reply by Vivek Raghuvanshi Jun 25.

Arik Johnson

The Application of CI for International Economic Development 8 Replies

Many of you may have missed the news this week that our good friend and colleague Prof. Paul Dishman has been named a Fulbright Scholar by the State Department to lecture and do research at a unive...

Tagged: State, Department, Fulbright, Dishman, Montenegro

Started by Arik Johnson. Last reply by Jose Alfredo da Luz Jun 24.

Jamie Smith

Who is numer one in Europe for CI? 2 Replies

Alain Juillet states that the UK and Sweden are ahead of France in terms of CI sophistication (see video from France 24, in English). Could his government led initiatives be blinding him or is he r...

Started by Jamie Smith. Last reply by Robin Kirkby Jun 23.

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Tom Hawes

Competitive Intelligence: Check Your Sparkplugs (or 10 signs of impending failure)

I was eighteen years old, fiercely independent and ready to go to college. We were living in Wyoming at the time and the college was in Florida. The long road trip ahead of me was the first one that I had ever undertaken by myself. I would have to make all the preparations beforehand, all of the decisions along the way and, of course, I was responsible for how I performed in school.

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Posted by Tom Hawes on June 30, 2009 at 3:00pm

Richard

Competitive Intelligence from a Capture Manager's viewpoint

After leading a major capture for 4 years I think I picked up a few pointers on the value of Competitive Intelligence and Competitive Analysis. Obviously, the links between developing win themes, ghosting strategies and a PTW approach are the major areas, but later when working a major proposal, I found that having good CI/CA on hand is extremely important. There is a NORAD/NORTHCOM saying "The time to exchange business cards is not at the start of a crisis". Well I would say the time to look up… Continue

Posted by Richard on June 25, 2009 at 7:24pm

Joseph di Candeloro

The Commercial Intelligence Panopticon

The CI community seems to have mixed feelings about its future given the fact that technology threatens to make access to "intelligence" an un-exclusive virtual free for all. I shall explore some possibilities here, and attempt to locate my own place with the winning team of the future in the bargain as well.

Here is the issue: Technology and the "Intelligence 2.0" phenomenon are poised to present to industry a kind of Commercial Intelligence Panopticon (hereafter CIP).

First of all--and this… Continue

Posted by Joseph di Candeloro on June 19, 2009 at 2:34pm

Christophe ASSELIN

How to benchmark competitive and market intelligence software :Comprehensive guidelines (Free download)

Market intelligence solution: benchmarking the best intelligence software solution for your company

http://bit.ly/J09p6

Why?

The Internet contains many valuable bits of intelligence offering a substantial competitive advantage for companies able to track them efficiently. For that reason, a plethora of vendors today offers intelligence solutions and it became cumbersome for companies to find the one that will better fit its needs.

How?

Digimind, the… Continue

Posted by Christophe ASSELIN on June 12, 2009 at 8:46am

Bonnie Hohhof

CI news section now contains over 1,000 entries

On June 2, I entered in the 1000th entry of the “News” column on the main page of the SCIP.org website. This milestone presents an opportunity to review the purpose of this section – it brings discussions and comments covering all aspects of CI to the attention of as many individuals as possible. Also note that this section is open to everyone.

As the publishing world is diminishing, and people receive their news and information from internet sources, most of the entries for this section will c… Continue

Posted by Bonnie Hohhof on June 9, 2009 at 11:13am

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I haven't heard of it Seena, but I love the slant of the title! Very funny ;-)
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Carlo Velten replied to Arik Johnson's discussion 'What were the Best Business Books of 2008?'on Friday
I really like the perspective of Gunter Dueck - chief technologist of IBM. In his latest book he outlines a new way of doing business embedded in a sociological framework that envision a world with less stress. Nice read -http://tinyurl.com/mp7323...
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"Neither Competitive Nor Intelligent"
I thought I saw this title for a SCIP chapter meeting. Does anyone have more info?
Jerry Spencer commented on Arik Johnson's group 'Intelligence 2.0'on Thursday
Arik, thanks for starting this and inviting me to participate. Am looking forward to more discussion. For now, I tend to echo Seena's comments. Let's see what happens here.
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Arthur Weiss replied to Rob Duncan's discussion '"Duplicity" starring Julia Roberts & Clive Owens: is it a CI movie?'on Thursday
Based on the trailers, it's all about corporate espionage - NOT competitive intelligence. Unfortunately many people will confuse the two - especially as many CI practitioners proudly hark back to their days in the espionage (intelligence) service...
August Jackson replied to Richard's discussion 'Sorting through the thousands of daily messages and postings'on Thursday
I primarily use Google Reader. The ability to "star" items gives me a way to save things, the "share" function gives me an option to disseminate, comment and collaborate and since it lives in the cloud its available from any computer with a web br...
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