September 2011 Blog Posts (5)

India’s proposed National Manufacturing Policy (NMP) has ambitious objectives of creating employment for  100 million people and taking the share of manufacturing in India from the current 16% to 25% by 2022.

Competitive intelligence is critical for achieving this objective! Several successful economies such as South Korea, China, Taiwan and Brazil have used competitive intelligence for achieving their economic objectives. Hopefully the Indian implementers who will deal with the “how…

 

In an industry first, changes to company websites can now be monitored with a powerful new software service, delivering unprecedented awareness of what’s being said on the websites of clients, competitors, industry and regulatory bodies.

WebAlertPro automatically monitors websites and web pages, identifying changes made to their content and to the content of linked documents such as terms and conditions and press…

I am working these days on a new model of CI capability called analytical fitness. It is derived in part from my research on analysis techniques, some of which has been shared in several of my books (they can be found here on my CI2020 site), as well as some additional research Aurora is conducting. You can learn more about this by seeing me discuss it with noted CI expert Arik Johnson at …

Competitive intelligence can be likened to an insurance policy for a company – it helps mitigate risks arising from developments in the external environment by providing timely warnings.

Thanks to heightened global economic uncertainties, the CI  insurance premiums have been rising sharply. Increased risks have also changed the way companies strategise.

What this means for competitive intelligence is that companies will now need to......…