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Strategic Secrecy and Excellence
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Starwood Sues Hilton Hotels for Alleged Industrial Espionage
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Cross Post: Strategic Secrecy and Excellence

I am going to be a lazy blogger today and cross-post a forum discussion topic that I posted in the Competitive Intelligence community on Ning that explores the concept of Apple’s strategic secrecy.  My hypothesis is that Apple and other companies earn the privilege to be strategically secret (note: not completely opaque) by delivering customer [...]

Revenge of the Nerds

John Hodgman is one of my favorite nerd comedians.  I really enjoyed his exploration of the nerd aesthetic (uncertain, questioning) versus jock aesthetic (certainty, confidence) and ribbing of Barack Obama to determine whether or not he is truly the first nerd president of the modern age.  Hodgman reminds us that some have even gone so [...]

I love My MiFi!

In an effort to establish professionalism, I do try to not pimp my employer’s products or services.  I’m an unabashed user of a product on a competitor’s network (iPhone) and try to make it clear that the content here represents my own opinions and not those of my employer.  So I hope that you will [...]

Forbes gets Amazon – Sprint Relationship Wrong?

Back in January 2007 I wrote a blog entry trying to explain the basics of network neutrality one more time.  This was in response to a Forbes column by Peter Huber that claimed Content Delivery Networks such as those from Akami, were violations of network neutrality.  On the contrary, I argued, CDNs were examples of well-designed [...]

Screencasts of RSS Workflows

In preparation for my presentation on RSS at the SLA 2009 conference I created a set of screencasts of simple RSS workflows.  These workflows are very simple and straightforward. This is the most simple workflow for finding RSS feeds for standard sources such as on-line publications and blogs: Next I demonstrate the simplicity of creating a custom [...]

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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...
Hi August, Strategic Secrecy's spinoff is product / service Excellence. Whether we go in for a : 1. Broad Differentiation strategy or 2. Best Cost Strategy or 3. Focussed Differentiation Strategy we need to remember that our "Customer Acquisit...
Nice post August! I think it's possible for substantially any company to "break the rules"; the firm simply needs to understand which information to release and which to keep secret. For example, Apple's product releases have become a deliberate ...
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LOL, good one Mr Lemanczyk. Ha...ha...ha... You have a way to put things across. Hindsight: The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch the basket - Andrew Carnegie.
Joseph, we never know ALL specifics of any lawsuit but we must always assess and decide. The question is therefore "Do we know ENOUGH specifics?" By the way, your conclusion "Which means that sometimes the love of the game itself has to be greate...
Without knowing all of the specifics of the (somewhat weird) lawsuit cited above, I hesitate to comment on it. It certainly serves as an interesting illustration... No matter how broad or convoluted the legal definition of work product, a company ...

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Market Intelligence Operations consultant for Verizon Business, Greater Washington SCIP Chapter leadership team, Chair of SCIP 2010 conference and host of the Competitive Intelligence Podcast.
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At 2:06pm on May 2, 2009, Claudia Clayton said…
Absolutely. I really enjoyed it. Feel free to make me put my time where my mouth is, as I would LOVE to work on a non CI track, e.g. work with folks in the Business Development Institute, Project Management, Pricing, Proposal Management, Strategic Planning, Marketing, etc., to bring in new blood. But then, you can put me where you need me. Claudia -
At 7:02pm on May 1, 2009, Claudia Clayton said…
Great conference, August - I just wanted more. More networking, more time to get to sessions. You and Derek did a fantastic job and I am sure 2010 will be even better. I'd love to see some of the suggestions from the active dialogs baked into next year, such as a track that consists of topics outside of the CI community but contains information of use to CI professionals.
Best,
Claudia
At 8:59am on January 29, 2009, John M. Koval III said…
Hi August:

Good catching up with you after the conference yesterday. Wanted to let you know I've added the SCIP blog to our blogroll at The Playmaker's Standard.

Best,

John
At 6:37am on December 17, 2008, Jayanth said…
Hello sir,
thanks for a reply..

i feel happy that people in India are getting aware about CI and its increasing..
it always feels gr8 to hear your podcasts, since everytime i learn something new and thirst for more knowledge..

Hope your major work would get over soon..
At 10:26pm on December 16, 2008, Jerry Lai said…
Mr. Jackson,

It is good to (kind of) run into you again since we last met at the October Greater DC SCIP Chapter Meeting. I have been following your blog ever since and your CI podcast have been most informative, thank you for taking your time to make the podcasts available.

Like many others here, I will be looking forward to your future podcasts and hopefully be able to meet you in person again at future DC SCIP events.

v/r

Jerry Lai
At 10:02am on December 1, 2008, Jayanth said…
Hello sir,
Its an honour to meet you here. I am a student of CI. & i am a regular podcast hearer...
At 1:12pm on October 15, 2008, Bruce Kneuer said…
August:

Thank you for recommending the TED's video of Jonathan Haidt's lecture. I am reading some essays from Russell Kirk and just finished one on Burke. It was encouraging to be able to appreciate Haight's comment on Burke all the more. I have some acquaintances that relish political matters and I shall be forwarding the link to them.

Regards,
Bruce Kneuer
At 7:03am on August 3, 2008, Andrew Beurschgens said…
August, how are you getting on with your iPhone? Some of us just need to have it, others don't. What's in it for you? Good luck with the Chicago Annual Summit in 2009!
At 5:03pm on July 3, 2008, Miguel Duarte Ferreira said…
Hi August,
At all. You deserve all the kind words for your brilliant work.
I do have some topics that I would like to suugest.
Among them let me share a couple:
#1 Challenges to implement CI functions in SME's
#2 Sales Intelligence - how to leverage it and how to support your sales team
#3 - CI - Is it the same all over the world? How different? How similar?
Hope they are of interest to you.
All the best,
Miguel Delete Comment
At 12:55pm on July 3, 2008, Miguel Duarte Ferreira said…
Hi August,
I am fan of your CI Podcast.
Do you have plans to post any new podcasts?
Look forward to hear (literally ;-) ) from you soon.
Miguel
 
 

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