Competitive Intelligence2024-03-28T08:38:43ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJacksonhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2787649053?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/group/intelligencecollaborative/forum/topic/listForContributor?groupUrl=intelligencecollaborative&user=2f9fu5uhkb814&feed=yes&xn_auth=noJoin us every second Friday for a Conference Call or anytime at IntelCollab.orgtag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2010-12-10:2036441:Topic:390972010-12-10T20:11:31.658ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
In the name of the Intel Collab Development Team I have the pleasure to invite you all to the re-launch of our weekly Friday calls, from the second week of January 2011 onwards at the usual time and place – 11am EST / ‘GoToWebinar’ gently offered by <a href="http://AuroraWDC.com" target="_blank">Aurora WDC</a>.<br></br>
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As you may all remember these calls were subject oriented and we had the chance and opportunity to have a new topic presented each week by new invitee/speaker.<br></br>
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For…
In the name of the Intel Collab Development Team I have the pleasure to invite you all to the re-launch of our weekly Friday calls, from the second week of January 2011 onwards at the usual time and place – 11am EST / ‘GoToWebinar’ gently offered by <a href="http://AuroraWDC.com" target="_blank">Aurora WDC</a>.<br/>
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As you may all remember these calls were subject oriented and we had the chance and opportunity to have a new topic presented each week by new invitee/speaker.<br/>
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For our first weekly call we are proud to present you all the outcome, so far, of an ongoing common effort by a team of members of this group – Arik Johnson, Jordan Frank, Janet Laane Effron, Valerie Shuman, Ulrich Tibaut Houzanme, Martha Matteo, Craig McHenry, August Jackson, Andrei Iordache, Dan Harris, Eric Garland, Matt Cole, Ellen Naylor, and myself - around an Intel Collab wiki/website that has been growing since last spring. We would like to invite you all to visit, explore and most important make your contributions - <a href="http://intelcollab.org">http://intelcollab.org</a>.<br/>
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We would also like to ask for your suggestions and proposals for topics and speakers along 2011. So go ahead and share with us all your most compelling topics! CI - implications of Crowdsourcingtag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2010-05-19:2036441:Topic:329972010-05-19T19:56:24.820ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
<p>Dear Group members,</p>
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<p>I recently read some interesting insights on Crowdsourcing, a practice that Wikipedia defines as "the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor to a large group of people or community (a crowd) through an open call". The key in crowdsourcing is to break down a specific task into small chunks of work that can be performed by a relevant established professional (or knowledgeable amateur) in his spare time for the benefit…</p>
<p>Dear Group members,</p>
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<p>I recently read some interesting insights on Crowdsourcing, a practice that Wikipedia defines as "the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor to a large group of people or community (a crowd) through an open call". The key in crowdsourcing is to break down a specific task into small chunks of work that can be performed by a relevant established professional (or knowledgeable amateur) in his spare time for the benefit or a larger organization.</p>
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<p>This type of practice has already been used in Marketing activities such as when a company wants to design a new t-shirt it makes an open call for submissions from web users. Crowdsourcing has also been used in writing code in software production. A more hypothetical example would be that a CI - professional would crowdsource parts of a background investigation into a competitor so that someone would do financial due diligence. another value chain analysis, another competitive positioning analysis etc... There are no immediate arguments that come to my mind why this sort of practice could not be used in industrial manufacturing, too, at some point in the process.</p>
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<p>Crowdsourcing is not a subject without controversy, not least because of the implications it has for the world of work. But I started to think more deeply about the fact that the crowdsourcing assignments are sought through an "open call". More specific questions that came to my mind are: How open is the call for submissions? How much signals about its intentions does the company give away by submitting the open call, although the assignment is broken down into smaller tasks that do not necessarily give away the whole plan? How can companies utilize crowdsourcing without giving away too much information about its intentions? How can competitive intelligence professionals get intel on the intentions of competitors by mining open calls for crowdsourcing assignments? How can that be done ethically?</p>
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<p>Maybe some of you have already come across crowdsourcing as a phenomenon, and maybe also the CI-implications of crowdsourcing. It would be interesting to discuss this topic here on the IntelCollab.</p>
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<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Ari</p>
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<p>PS. The Wikipedia-entry on "Crowdsourcing" to which I referred above can be found under:</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing</a></p> CI WIKI DISCUSSIONtag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2010-04-09:2036441:Topic:315612010-04-09T15:56:24.565ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
This morning - Apr 9th there was a very active discussion on the Intel Collab teleconference regarding the creation of a CI Wiki. There were a lot of great ideas bounced around, and we have a limited list of "path forward" action items. We are looking for ideas, as well as for people who would be interested in becoming active as administrators, editors, authors, and reviewers.<br></br><br></br>FIRST LIST OF ACTION ITEMS:…<br></br><p></p>
This morning - Apr 9th there was a very active discussion on the Intel Collab teleconference regarding the creation of a CI Wiki. There were a lot of great ideas bounced around, and we have a limited list of "path forward" action items. We are looking for ideas, as well as for people who would be interested in becoming active as administrators, editors, authors, and reviewers.<br/><br/>FIRST LIST OF ACTION ITEMS:<br/><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;">1. Find hosting options</span></p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;">2. Taxonomy of participation (editors, authors, contributors)</span></p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;">3. Possible seed topics? <span><br/></span></span></p>
<br/>If you have comments or additional action items, let us hear about it. We are starting to move forward with the idea, and this is a very collaborative effort. We need as many folks to become involved as possible for this to be successful.<br/><br/>I have a Wiki already established, which we can treat as a "playground" experimental area. Go to <a href="http://www.cijedi.com">http://www.cijedi.com</a> and create a user account to experiment with. And please share your ideas for the items above...or anything else that may be on your mind. We also have a Google wave discussion on this topic already. If you're a Google Wave user, contact us for an invite, and if not, email us and we will arrange for you to get an invitation to join Google Wave as well.<br/><br/>Let us know how you think the effort should proceed.<br/><br/>mark<br/><div id="refHTML"></div> Seismic shifts in society, can intelligence keep up?tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2010-04-01:2036441:Topic:312422010-04-01T12:37:10.897ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
Just discovered this excellent video on transformational change from Michel Cartier and Jon Husband:<br />
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/8622635">Are You Ready for the 21st Century ?</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/constellationw">Michel Cartier</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<br></br>If we are really in a third wave of economic and social revolution, what kinds of intelligence are needed to keep our organizations healthy?…
Just discovered this excellent video on transformational change from Michel Cartier and Jon Husband:<br />
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/8622635">Are You Ready for the 21st Century ?</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/constellationw">Michel Cartier</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<br/>If we are really in a third wave of economic and social revolution, what kinds of intelligence are needed to keep our organizations healthy? <br/> Topics for Upcoming Intel Collab Teleconstag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2010-02-26:2036441:Topic:301782010-02-26T20:17:58.869ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
Our topic on today's call was... well, brainstorming topics for future calls - with at least a couple coming out for next time that met with broad approval - since <b><u>SCIP 2010</u></b> is the week after next perhaps August would agree to chat about the program a little (being chairman of the program committee and all).<div><br></br></div>
<div>I'd earlier nominated August to lead a <b><u>Google Wave tutorial</u></b>, which is also still highly anticipated, but he's traveling today unfortunately…</div>
Our topic on today's call was... well, brainstorming topics for future calls - with at least a couple coming out for next time that met with broad approval - since <b><u>SCIP 2010</u></b> is the week after next perhaps August would agree to chat about the program a little (being chairman of the program committee and all).<div><br/></div>
<div>I'd earlier nominated August to lead a <b><u>Google Wave tutorial</u></b>, which is also still highly anticipated, but he's traveling today unfortunately - so maybe there's room for two 30-minute topics before SCIP hits the following week? What say you <a href="http://twitter.com/8of12">8of12</a>? Double-header, prefer to do these separately, suggest something else? (Sorry to put you on the spot August ;-) and happy birthday on Saturday by the way.)</div>
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<div>In other news, we had some very good suggestions that came out, one highlight included running a separate Google Wave for each teleconference, which should clean up the wave environment considerably (I'm still struggling with how to delete things). Likewise, general consensus that the 9:00 AM Eastern time slot, while better for those outside North America than 1:00 PM EST, could still be improved upon by splitting the difference at 10:30 Eastern for 60 minutes. We'll test this out next week with apologies to our friends in the PacRim; incidentally, I did hear from many who said the earlier time is a deal-breaker, so maybe this is something of a compromise we can settle on for the time being? Let's hope so.</div>
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<div>With that, please share any and all topics you would like to offer up for future Friday teleconferences and if you have a suggested guest speaker that's even better. I'll share a couple ideas in comments to this post which were telegraphed to me privately and if the originator wants to claim and clarify please go ahead.</div>
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<div>Happy weekend all,</div>
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<div>- Arik</div> Does anybody need invitations to Google Wave?tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2010-02-26:2036441:Topic:301622010-02-26T14:23:08.540ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
If you would like to reach the Intelligence Collaborative on Google Wave, let me know - I have 23 invitations remaining and would love to invite more people to the party. <br/><br/><p style="text-align: left;"><img width="540" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2654402424?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt=""/></p>
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If you would like to reach the Intelligence Collaborative on Google Wave, let me know - I have 23 invitations remaining and would love to invite more people to the party. <br/><br/><p style="text-align: left;"><img width="540" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2654402424?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt=""/></p>
<br/> The first two initiatives of the Intelligence Collaborativetag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2010-02-22:2036441:Topic:299922010-02-22T15:10:32.717ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
As outlined in Valerie Shuman's vision a few weeks ago, the Intelligence Collaborative will really revolve around <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">initiatives</span> that come under the "umbrella" of the group. Instead of being "in charge" of such initiatives, or providing capital for such activities, the Collaborative becomes a place where you can register your intentions with your fellow colleagues, gain momentum, support, advice, and volunteers, and move forward into the…
As outlined in Valerie Shuman's vision a few weeks ago, the Intelligence Collaborative will really revolve around <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">initiatives</span> that come under the "umbrella" of the group. Instead of being "in charge" of such initiatives, or providing capital for such activities, the Collaborative becomes a place where you can register your intentions with your fellow colleagues, gain momentum, support, advice, and volunteers, and move forward into the future. <br/><br/>Based on our conversations last Friday, it seems that already two initiatives are forming up. <br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Intelligence Mentoring</span><br/><br/>Discussions with Martha Matteo led to us define the need for mentoring for students and young professionals looking to continue cultivate a lifelong career in intelligence. This initiative could unite younger professionals with highly experienced thoughtleaders for mentoring and coaching opportunities, as well as bringing educators together with potential speakers for their programs. <br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Portuguese language intelligence community</span><br/><br/>As suggested by Lisbon-based professor and strategy consultant Miguel Duarte Ferreira, the Intelligence Collaborative can be a place where intelligence professionals who speak Portuguese can come together to share articles, opportunities for online training, and potential speakers.<br/><br/>To me, both of these sound VERY cool, and I look forward to participating in both of these initiatives. The question is, what platform might we use to coordinate these activities? This Ning site? Google Wave? Other? <br/><br/>Also - what other initiatives are you interested in proposing? Our Friday morning conference calls might be good place to get discussions going. <br/><br/>That's all for now. Exciting stuff!<br/> 19 Feb 2010 conference call - great milestones for the Intel Collabtag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2010-02-20:2036441:Topic:299562010-02-20T12:16:01.063ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
For those of you who were on the conference call yesterday, I would like to thank you and say how enjoyable it was to take a moment during the week to catch up with my intelligence colleagues from around the globe. Speaking on behalf of some of the instigators of the Intel Collab, we are very excited given recent developments. <br></br><br></br>First, there were some great presentations from my colleagues Messieurs Johnson and Jackson on the shape of professional organizations in the future. It really…
For those of you who were on the conference call yesterday, I would like to thank you and say how enjoyable it was to take a moment during the week to catch up with my intelligence colleagues from around the globe. Speaking on behalf of some of the instigators of the Intel Collab, we are very excited given recent developments. <br/><br/>First, there were some great presentations from my colleagues Messieurs Johnson and Jackson on the shape of professional organizations in the future. It really felt like our key messages for the Intel Collab are coming together and are being communicated. To recap, our fundamental tenets are:<br/><br/>1. No hierarchy<br/>2. We're not handling money<br/>3. If you want to make something happen, by all means, do it!<br/>4. Global! <br/>5. Work together, have fun, share, collaborate<br/>6. Use the Internet a lot - it's cheap, if not free<br/><br/>On yesterday's call, we felt that really coalescing. Imagine how cool it was to see - spontaneously - Portuguese speaking colleagues connect in real time on Google Wave based on a common language and a shared passion for intelligence. And how about the revelation that there's a huge desire among young people to learn about what we do - and to see mentoring initiatives begin to form around it. <br/><br/>That's the spirit here, and it's great to see it come together. In the coming weeks and months, I'll bet you'll see even more conversations, initiatives, and events come together. <br/><br/>We hope that you'll take part, attend a conference call, start collaborating!<br/> Summary Corner Updatetag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2010-02-11:2036441:Topic:296862010-02-11T19:16:12.853ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
<p>Hello Folks</p>
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<p>It's been a few months and there have been a lot of discussions about what the IntelCollab should be. Here's the latest summary deck about the IntelCollab's goals and tactics. We'll be discussing this further on Friday 12 Feb (watch for Arik's webinar announcement!) so please do join the conversation live or online, as convenient!</p>
<p><br/>Regards</p>
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<p>Valerie</p>
<p>Hello Folks</p>
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<p>It's been a few months and there have been a lot of discussions about what the IntelCollab should be. Here's the latest summary deck about the IntelCollab's goals and tactics. We'll be discussing this further on Friday 12 Feb (watch for Arik's webinar announcement!) so please do join the conversation live or online, as convenient!</p>
<p><br/>Regards</p>
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<p>Valerie</p> Videos from the Oct 22, 2009 Intelligence Collaborative Meetingtag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2009-10-28:2036441:Topic:278822009-10-28T22:46:26.284ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
As promised here are the videos from October 22nd inaugural meeting of the Intel…
As promised here are the videos from October 22nd inaugural meeting of the Intel Collaborative:<br />
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