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Mr. James who was just graduated from an reputed engineering institute in telecommunication sector. He was celebrating his graduation with his family, Friends and other relatives with great gathering at near by Hotel sponsored by his father. James was excited & starting thinking to work for an IT company soon.

After few days, he visited a number of companies, organization and institutions  to drop his CVs or walk in interviews. He almost attended more than six walk in interviews…

Here are the Top 3 Ways to Use Google Trends for Competitive Intelligence:

http://blog.rivalfox.com/four-critical-ways-to-collect-competitive-intelligence-on-linkedin/

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with serial entrepreneur Martin Blumenau at his trendy office in Umspannwerk Kreuzberg to talk about his use of Competitive Intelligence in his previous ventures. Martin shared that, in his previous startup, continuous monitoring of the competition revealed a critical industry trend: lack of demand.

Martin joined the Gigalocal team before they launched in summer of 2011. Gigalocal is a hyper-local, real-time market-place for mini services. …

Are you a B2B marketer rolling your eyes at the thought of spending precious time on Pinterest?  Really, what could Pinterest possibly have to offer you when it…

We are having a discussion on what are the essential elements, or outputs of a typical customer Black Hat.  We agree to the staples: customer organization, key decision makers, funding, how they approach acquisitions, award history, etc.  It seems when we has a larger community they want to see more and that is where the discussion goes.  We get things like technical solutions, market influence, organizational cohesiveness.  It seems where you sit in the business organization drives…

The quote, "If wishes were Horses, Beggars would ride" seems more fitting than Voodoo economics which didn't gain much traction nor did Supply-Side Economics, or other Classic Economic Theory.

The revisit to…

Read more at http://blog.rivalfox.com/competitive-intelligence-and-twitter-how-to-monitor-competitors-and-create-an-awesome-strategy/

For a site that only requires 140 characters to get your message across, there is a lot of confusion about how to effectively use Twitter to monitor competitors, and how to analyze that…

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I'm taking part in a venture with an objective of providing large scale CI services targeted to SMEs. If you would like to join as a design partner please drop me an email to elizo@netvision.net.il

This is the kind of sophisticated CI analysis a mobile device company should be engaged in.  Brilliant use of visualization, this is excellent work:



Visualization of interfirm relations in a converging mobile ecosystem, Rahul C Basole.  Journal of Information Technology, (2009) 00, 1–16.  (PDF)



Abstract

The mobile…

Provocative article:

Transient Advantage, by Rita Gunther McGrath.   Harvard Business Review, June 2013.

Strategy is still useful in turbulent industries like consumer electronics, fast-moving consumer goods, television, publishing, photography, and...well, you get the idea. Leaders in these businesses can compete…

Trailer for Alex Winter's documentary on the rise and fall of Napster.

I think we are only now beginning to fully appreciate the full implications of Napster, just how disruptive a force it really was. Were it not for cascading effects from Napster, we may never…

This is the slide-deck from a presentation I gave in Fall 2012 for SCIP Boston's CIdea Fest. My actual presentation was fail, as I stuttered and stumbled my way through it, projecting a nervous energy that I imagine was uncomfortable to watch. Nevertheless, it was ideas that were supposed to matter – I think some people got it, but it was lost on many.

My aim was to introduce and adapt the paradigm of network-competition to…

How Blending Business Continuity, Strategy and Risk Management Mitigates Black Swans and Shapeshifters with Geary Sikich and Craig Fleisher

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"Confidential: Business Secrets, Getting Theirs - Keeping Yours"

John Nolan has released a limited reprint of his book Confidential: Business Secrets, Getting Theirs - Keeping Yours (ISBN 097213560X). The title is on many…

Dear colleagues! Please find information materials, which are available March 1, 2013 onthe website of the Research Center of Viktor Voksanaeva. I hope that the material will be useful to all analysts. Sincerely, W. Voksanaev

Update:  New issue of JISIB out: 2013 Vol 3 No…

Have just read the analysis of the 2012 Presidential election that highlights or recognizes that a claim that an Army of Computer Engineers, Mathematicians and Social Scientists (No Statitisticians
are directly identified) claim victory of Big Data. The major factors cited were Survey Research and Microtargeting. What seems missing is the very worse form of Competition - Gamesmanship!

OSINT - Update Catalog site of the Research Center of Viktor Voksanaeva for March-April 2013

Dear colleagues! Please find information materials, which are available March 1, 2013 onthe website of the Research Center of Viktor Voksanaeva. I hope that the material will be useful to all analysts. Sincerely, W. Voksanaev

Under the heading: Analytical materials on OSINT…