I have been incorporating strategy maps into my CI teaching and work with organisations since 2004. I proposed a Workshop for the 2005 SCIP Chicago Conference titled "Using Strategy Maps to Drive the CI Effort" but it was turned down. I was told tha…
Vivek - you are spot on. There is no point in doing any environmental, or any other sort of scanning, if you cannot translate that into scenarios. Scanning without analysis is observation - nothing more, nothing less. It is as useful as going to the…
Hi Tom,
You will find a list of CI Scholarship, covering Books, Book Chapters, Scholarly Articles and Practitioner Articles from 1930 to 2006 on De Montfot Universty's CIMTIR site: www.dmu.ac.uk/cimitri. Ellen has taken this a step further by addin…
Vivek, I think you would be well advised to understand the cliche you are quoting here which is somewhat of a wild overstatement if ever I saw one. It is just that the merit of discussing the meaning behind one paragraph, taken entirely out of conte…
You coming into the Intelligence Collaborative, Sheila...it is coming across as a new wave of fresh ideas to analysing all source information to drive market based decisions for organisations from so what to what's next....
Hello,
We are proud to announce that our benchmark study has achieved 150 companies few weeks ago. Several companies have been very active in participating and recognizing the value add of the tool. I hope that we will get more companies involved.…
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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…