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Fiona Creigthon, Maria Spínola, Anu Mehrotra and 5 other members are attending Ellen Naylor's event

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Learn how to be more effective at collecting competitive intelligence that will help your sales teams win more deals. Transform that data into competitive sales intelligence that your sales reps can customize for each deal. Reframe your data into customer terms that will add impact your sales discussions.Panelists include Mitch Emerson of Compelligence, Ellen Naylor of The Business Intelligence Source, and…See More

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Tony Steele commented on Tony Steele's blog post Social Networking Sites and Employees

"LOL! Interesting tidbit on the candy industry. Unfortunately, the Army is quite the opposite. We can't really run the Army 70+ year olds :) The majority of the current Army has grown up with Facebook and for most a fax machine is ancient…"

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SCIP Australia presentsHeath GibsonCI @ Telstra: Changing the game with enterprise social mediaSocial media is often thought of as a tool for gathering information external to the organisation. But what if social media could be harnessed to better capture competitive insights from within the enterprise? In this presentation, Heath will provide a brief overview of competitive intelligence at Telstra and discuss its use of Yammer, an enterprise social media tool. Come along and learn how Yammer…See More

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Trip Krant commented on Tony Steele's blog post Social Networking Sites and Employees

"The candy industry is incredibly secretive, but Tootsie Roll Industries stands out – they have the best corporate OPSEC I've ever heard of. The WSJ had a great article about them a couple years ago. The employees are all ancient -…"

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Social Networking Sites and Employees

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.htmlSince Soldiers are notorious for inadvertently posting sensitive data on Social…See More

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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 Trip Krant Mar 28. 19 Replies 2 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 Sandro Tavares Mar 27. 4 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

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

"SLA CID Leads – 2014 SLA Leadership Summit Highlights": A Reply and a Query

Started by Trip Krant. Last reply by Trip Krant Feb 25. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Prompted by the post titled "SLA CID Leads – 2014 SLA Leadership Summit Highlights", the event being described as:CID leadership will recap the CI Presentation on how to use CI to Build Leadership…Continue

What are the problems when searching for information using internet?

Started by Alessandro Comai. Last reply by Richard Feb 10. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Dear Colleagues, What are the problems when searching for information using internet? Several weeks ago we lunched a study which seeks to understand the behavior of practitioners and professionals…Continue

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SCIP 2014: Fail Continued

Started by Trip Krant. Last reply by Trip Krant Feb 6. 1 Reply 1 Like

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

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Literature on CI and personnel recruitment?

Started by Marcel Brussee. Last reply by Marcel Brussee Dec 13, 2013. 4 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

Lawyer pens "Competitive Intelligence for Dummies" Having no experience in the field whatsoever

Started by Richard. Last reply by Mark Johnson Oct 1, 2013. 16 Replies 1 Like

Well it was just a matter of time. A Texas professor and trial lawyer of 14 years (Dr. Jim Underwood) with what I can tell he has ZERO experience in Competitive Intelligence has reduced our…Continue

SCIP: State of the Organization

Started by Trip Krant. Last reply by Trip Krant Sep 17, 2013. 23 Replies 0 Likes

How would you assess the organizational health of SCIP? How relevant is SCIP relevant today? 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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