Can you solve moral dilemmas encountered by you during the pursuit of Competitive Intelligence profession as exemplarily as Mr. Harrison solving that moral dilemma encountered by him during the pursuit of solicitor's profession ( http://fedcba.ning.…
Hello, Graeme, are you sure that Competitive Intelligence professionals have never put themselves in such a moral dilemma as Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings cheating Jacob Radnor ( http://fedcba.ning.com/xn/detail/2516803:Comment:4821 )?
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I am not challenging "Holier Than Thou" syndrome here.
The issue is that "Intelligence" we generate has to be Competitive.
The yardstick should be that each one of us must be aware of the "Consequence of our Actions".
The tools we use in Collecti…
My friend M. Alain Juilet, Senior Director in charge of Competitive Intelligence, French Govt very rightly said:
"Competitive Intelligence is Control and Protection of Strategic Information"......It is to the competitiveness of the economy and secu…
Khalid bhai,
Micro Picture - Competitive Intelligence is a tool for Corporate Warfare
Macro Picture - Competitive Intelligence is a tool for Economic Supremacy of the Nations.
Now we all know about PPP ( Private Public Partnership )
Cold War is…
Even though today's companies are requiring increasing degree of the accuracy and sensitivity of information, the field of CI as a whole shouldn't become viewed as "outsourced spies."
Just as many CI practitioners are asked for "more", today we do…
To add to this stream of ethical discussion. I have been a CI consultant since 1993, and I really see little change in customer's demands for collection ever since I started my business. What's changed is how much more I can get on-line, and social…
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August - just excellent. That's what I meant with being "higher positioned in the food chain towards decision making". I truly believe that ethics and effectivity promote each other in a much more profound and sustainable way than an "information-dr…
In a recent blog entry I touched on some of my thoughts that often drive some of these requests for certain kinds of information, including sources the acquisition of which are likely to come at the expense of established ethics and even laws relate…
Hi Nimalan,
I see the point. Maybe we all have to emphasize more that the "value" of an information always consists of two parts: the competitive advantage for the client AND his or her ability to use this information (without risking public image…
Hi Andreas,
I do agree with you that we should abide by the SCIP code of ethics and I do stick to that. But then what I see happening now (and the point that Khalid raises) is that most of the clients are beginning to expect more "value" (for want…
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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