It makes me think of the 1990s Saturday Night Live skit "Coffee Talk" with Mike Meyers playing Linda Richmond. "I'm getting a little verklemp... talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic: Competitive Intelligence is neither competitive nor intelligent. Discuss."
The silly season is upon both Competitive Intelligence ( http://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/ ) and Multilingual Studies at a Distance ( http://fedcba.ning.com/ ), isn't it? But, joking apart, I'm afraid Christopher Caldwell's article Mixing morals and money ( http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/84dbc704-6d7c-11de-8b19-00144feabdc0.html... ) published in Financial Times the day before yesterday forces us to ask another question: Is Competitive Intelligence either competitive or ethical? I mean especially his observation "Globalisation can break down cultures, and with them the moral systems in light of which it can be judged." However, do cultures and with them the moral systems have only a tendency to disappearance? Do you remember my reply to Vivek Raghuvanshi ( http://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/xn/detail/2036441:Comment:2... )? In place of old cultures and moral systems, new cultures and moral systems appear and develop, isn't that so? Try to guess how in the light of those new moral systems Competitive Intelligence will be judged. Will it be judged as severe as Hercule Poirot and Captain Arthur Hastings have been judged by Chief Inspector James Japp ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/the-adventure-of-johnnie )? ;-)
Found one reference to it:
"For law firms, CI involves gathering and analyzing external information to help make better decisions – and gain a competitive advantage. But while many firms are talking about competitive intelligence, very few actually have a well-planned and executed CI strategy – and CI without a strategy is neither competitive nor intelligent." Since it quotes Ben Gilad in the previous paragraph, it's probably in one of his articles.
[Christina R. Fritsch, JD, 2008/04/15 Legal marketing association, Google cache]
A collective of professionals and passionate amateurs around the globe who analyze a world in transition and help guide leaders in their most critical decisions.
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Micro Environment Analysis
Here we need to understand the Interplay and Implications to the Organisation of:
1. General Economic conditions
2. Legislation and Regulations
3. Polulation Demographics
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Hi, Vivek, you mean Glomarization [the terms "Glomar response," and "Glomarization" are used to describe an agency's response when they can neither confirm nor deny whether records exist ( http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/jennifer.htm )], do...
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Why mergers acutally fail is because of a clash of corporate cultures
Have we addressed the cultural incompatibilities
Was cultural due diligence done correctly
Did we undertake cultural audit
Did we cre...
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Further, were similarities and differences assessed, do organisations have mutual respect for each other, do they acknowledge professional and individual competence, business capability etc.
Is there a d...
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It all depends, who has done the Due Diligence
Like Ayn Rand said:
Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that namele...
Thanks for sending me the link, Arik. Looks interesting, and I am glad to see you got Gabriel Andebjork with you. I am sure if Per Jenster had been at home in Shanghai right now he would have linked to come.
Take care,
From Stanford
Klaus