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- About Me:
- Jennifer has over 25 years experience doing competitive intelligence, market research, and many types of analysis and model building in a wide variety of industries. She is currently an Sr. Market Analyst at Draper, providing custom research to internal groups and building the market intelligence function. She has worked on both sides of the equation – demand side (ARAMARK, Draper, MITRE, DEC) and supply side (Fuld, Gartner). As a consultant, Jennifer has worked in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and business services, with an expertise in technology (Digital Equipment, Gartner, MITRE, Draper). She started the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) Boston Chapter in 1991 and was a member of the board 1.5 times. Jennifer has presented at conferences, taught courses and written articles on CI and project management. She has an MBA from Boston University Graduate School of Management and an MLS from Simmons Graduate School of Library & Info Science.
- My Interest in Competitive Intelligence is:
- Analysis, teaching, learning, writing, presenting
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I find websites like www.wikiinvest.com as good starting points for CI projects. But again these are more websites than tools. I have not come across any comprehensive tools than can do the analysis for you and most CI tools I have seen here and els…
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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