Craig
You will remember that SCIP once had an excellent, hard-copy journal: Competitive Intelligence Review. If one could replicate that, I would be happy to contribute in any way I can. Is there any merit in talking to Wiley about this? Also, am p…
Mark, You could have saved yourself some time. Look at Table 4 in this article which is just about all you need to know which titles accept CI work.
Bibliography and Assessment of Key Competitive Intelligence Scholarship: Part 4 (2003-2006)
by Crai…
Open Access Journals:
I got to looking at open access journals and found the following:
Business Intelligence Journal,
Volume 2 - Number 1 - January 2009 - Semiannual Publication
Published by the IIU Press and Research Centre, A.C., Brussels EU Co…
Brilliant! Thank you Sheila. I guess the question that I still have out there is Craig's #3 above; could SCIP "spin off" JCIM so that another body or group or consortium or something could fund its resurrection or is it a moot point now? Are CI acad…
I'm pleased to see a few more voices in this debate. Just to answer Arik's question. Bobby Brody championed JCIM going Open Access during our tenure as Co-Editors and took charge of getting the myriad of procedures, including handling forms for the…
Here's a small challenge: for all those who seem to think that any process rooted in organizations can exist, flourish, and attract good people WITHOUT at least, having some related academic activity, I'd be curious to hear about such a sub-area. As…
SCIP's statement on the status of JCIM is currently and officially "on hold" pending presumed sponsorship funding by ... well, somebody ... who can finance its resurrection. As I think Craig Fleisher pointed out earlier but which might be less known…
I've been following this discussion for quite some time now.
There are a core of folks who believe that CI is badly hampered without the existence of an Academic CI Journal.
There are a core of folks who may believe that while this is probably tru…
Sheila (et al, particularly our colleagues in academia) - how familiar are you all with the Open Access movement? Casual Googling yields a lot of material on the subject and I see there are channels for this method of getting peer reviewed journal p…
Eric - you're right of course that a good number of Universities are typically large buildings with support staff, who I might add are usually not well rewarded for their tireless efforts. They are the unsung heroes of the education system. We could…
Sheila,
Please understand a stark difference between any structural criticism I might have toward universities as institutions and with academics as people. Also, please understand my inherent American biases, which may not carry globally.
Most ac…
Responding to the various issues which have been raised and questions posed, I'll try to respond.
1) Please don’t assume all Universities are the same, or that they teach the same. There are huge differences in style, purpose and method within and…
Eric,
I am pleased you love the idea of an elite Journal filled with the best insight. You should have supported JCIM when it was around, it was getting there. Where is this massive academic overhead that you seem to think is attached to an academi…
This begs many questions about university education itself. For example, in the United States private school tuition has increase 2.5 times since 1978 - from $10,000 a year to $25,000 a year in inflation-adjusted dollars. Plus, the world's employers…
The changes being wrought in higher education notwithstanding, we should differentiate between the oft-divergent academic goals of teaching and research.
One January day in 2006, I had the pleasure of spending a morning interviewing Clay Christense…
I'm reading with interest Don Tapscott's (author of Wikinomics) article on the demise of the university and the outdatedness of academic pedagogy in a digital age. As good CI folks, are we looking sufficiently forward in our assessment of the mechan…
If you're like most people, you probably wish you could flip a switch to complete a task, receive an answer or find what you're looking for!
If you had your say, what business activities or parts of your job would you wish to automate? What would y…
I really enjoyed Leonard Fuld's Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence. I thought it was a capstone work of an illustrious career and explained the discipline in serious yet accessible language. It represented the state of the industry in the 2…
Compete Against Yourself and Your Own Strategies
What Yourself Dust Your Competition
By Lance Winslow
Before retirement, many people said I was paranoid and that I acted like Don Quixote busy chasing windmills. The reality is I always assumed that…