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- I have eight years in the public sector, 12 years in the non-profit sector, and six years in the private sector. Twelve of those years involved research and competitive intelligence.
At present, I work in competitive intelligence and IP administration for Reflexite, a microstructured optics company in Avon, CT. We are world-wide in three industries: the display industry (computer monitors, flat screen TVs, PDAs), the specialty optics industry (cockpit displays, heads-up displays, solar concentrator Fresnel lenses) and the retroreflective industry (reflective tape for safety and firefighter garments, traffic conspicuity tapes for barrels, construction cones and the like). I created the competitive intelligence function here and am a one-person "shop".
My internal customers are the senior management team, heads of the business divisions, the R and D team, and the product development teams. I also monitor the regulatory landscape. In short, if you have a question, I'm the go-to person at Reflexite!
In my other "lives", I have had significant marketing, public relations, and adminsitrative experience.
I seek a position in competitive intelligence, and would be open to a larger department, a consulting firm or to creating the function in another company.
The photo, by the way, is from a trip to France, Land of Chocolate Croissants. I don't have a head shot, and thought viewers might like a little scenery as well!
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I've compiled a list of on-line CI resources here: http://augustjackson.net/competitive-intelligence-resources/
P.S. Elen thanks for the shout-out for the CI Podcast.
Hi Richard,
Seena's book is a great way to start your CI library. Here is the link to a prior Ning discussion on this topic which I think you'll find helpful. http://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/forum/topics/the-essential-ci-library. I also use…
I am reading Seena Sharp's Competitive Intelligence Advantage and it is quickly becoming a favorite. I have read other books and found them too academic to be practical. I am compiling a list of recommended reading (books, websites, blogs, magazines…
I am reading Seena Sharp's Competitive Intelligence Advantageand it is quickly becoming one of my favorites. I have read other books, but got little practical use out of them--they were much to academic. I am trying to compile a recommended bibliogr…
I am enjoying the book, still working through it with all my other reading, but I like the practicality of it. Practitioners of the art need more than academic treaties on the subject. And thanks for making it a Kindle selection--when you travel aro…
Well getting a clean feed takes a combination of good web-sources and appropriate taxonomy-based semantic filters. It seems your friend's RSS is clean and thus it may be worth to look at his/her taxonomy. Any insight?
Indeed Richard you seem pretty well covered as far as information retrieval is concerned.
What about analysis, sharing, collaboration with others? What about aggregating those feeds together?
Any insights would be helpful.
I use e-sobi. It is a rss and podcast feed reader. I can add the feeds I want, I can store pages for later use, I can set alerts. Seems to be more powerful than the free readers. SInce you can organize it the way you want, it provides a way to quick…
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Great story, thanks for sharing. I have a couple of success stories of my own, convincing the C-level in public companies to allow me to create new departments, but not in the CI capacity. Although, in retrospect, it was my talent for gathering, organizing and advising through CI. I'm looking to move into the CI space officially (in Financial Services). I've looked into the Fuld-Gilad-Herring CIP Certification, but the $13,000 price tag is causing me to baulk. Any suggestions on how I can build my bona-fides, without breaking the bank?
Cheers,
- Arik