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Competitive Futures white paper: Social media and customer relationship management

Competitive Futures is launching a new multi-client research project over the next six months on the future of social media and customer relationship management. This white paper details the insights that lead us to take on this important topic on behalf of our clients.

For a full project prospectus, call us at 877.431.6565 or contact us.…

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Added by Eric Garland on August 18, 2011 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Podcast with Paul Higgins: The difference between vision and execution

This episode of the CompFutures Podcast features Australian futurist Paul Higgins, founder of Emergent Futures. Paul has a fascinating background, a veterinary surgeon who turned toward foresight after a simple ad for a futures studies grad program. In this episode, he describes when executives should think about the future versus tending to execution, how the future of trust will be key to our… Continue

Added by Eric Garland on August 18, 2011 at 11:57am — No Comments

Ethics of Competitive Intelligence -Part1

Ethics

Competitive Intelligence

Ziaullah Mirza

Online Publication 2011 (Part 1)

Basics of Competitive Intelligence

Competitive intelligence is the art of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence…

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Added by Alex Ziaullah Mirza on August 17, 2011 at 8:44am — No Comments

The perfect gift

All of us have received gifts at some time or the other – on birthdays perhaps? All gifts are fun to open, but once in a while we have received something that was exactly what we wanted – the perfect gift. And that gift stood above all others – how could the giver possibly have known exactly want we wanted?

Competitive intelligence is that perfect gift!

Competitive intelligence in India on a shoestring

How can small businesses in India do competitive intelligence (CI)? I had the opportunity to discuss this with a group of small businesses at the TiE breakfast event in Pune last month.

Small businesses have limited resources at their disposal and need to figure out ways to do CI on small budgets. In…

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Added by Varsha Chitale on July 25, 2011 at 12:44am — No Comments

Battle Cards for Sales Teams

I would like to kickoff membership with Competitive Intelligence to test a point of view that I've been developing over the past year. While I am not familiar with the types of discussions on this site, I hope that we can have an open, honest, and frank debate!

During my two periods of work in competitive analysis, I focused on the quality of my research and the integrity of my analysis. In my recent work at Forrester, I've seen the challenge that sales reps have trying to… Continue

Added by Dean Davison on July 19, 2011 at 11:12pm — 1 Comment

new book announcement

Competitive Intelligence 2.0 Organization, Innovation and Territory

Edited by Luc Quoniam, University Paris 8, France

ISBN: 9781848213050

Publication Date: June 2011

Hardback 400 pp.

Added by Luc Quoniam on June 19, 2011 at 3:31am — No Comments

Catalog Updates site of the Research Center Viktor Voksanaeva for July-August 2011

Catalog Updates site of the Research Center Viktor Voksanaeva for July-August 2011:

Filed under: White Papers on OSINT (English):

Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin 34-09-3

Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin 34-10-1

Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin 34-10-2

Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin…

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Added by Viktor Voksanaev on June 16, 2011 at 4:56am — No Comments

Aurora WDC Partners with Competitive Futures to Make Organizations Future-Ready

I am delighted to announce that Aurora WDC is deepening its partnership with…

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Added by Derek Johnson on June 10, 2011 at 10:29am — 3 Comments

Dr. Craig S. Fleisher to Join Aurora WDC as Chief Learning Officer, Launch Intelligence Kinetics and Analytical Fitness Program

I am delighted to announce that…

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Added by Derek Johnson on May 5, 2011 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Конкурентная разведка в Индии

Конкурентная разведка в Индии

http://corporaterisks.info/blog/?p=995

Автор: Vivek Raghuvanshi (Региональный представитель “Р-Техно” в Индии, ПартнерCorporate Risks)

Организации в Индии следят за конкурентами используя весь арсенал конкурентной разведки: OSINT (разведку по открытым источникам) и HUMINT («разведку по-людям»). Индийские компании осторожны с конкурентной разведкой. Ведущие компании следят за обстановкой… Continue

Added by Vivek Raghuvanshi on April 30, 2011 at 4:16am — 9 Comments

Catalog Updates site of the Research Center Viktor Voksanaeva for May-June 2011

Catalog Updates site of the Research Center Viktor Voksanaeva for May-June 2011:

Filed under: White Papers on OSINT (English):

Reference OSINT (December 2010)

The role and place of analytical services at the expert-analytical support of the legislative authorities in the Russian Federation 2011 (in Russian)

FBI - Handbook of fingerprint identification in 1987…

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Added by Viktor Voksanaev on April 26, 2011 at 8:59pm — No Comments

Catalog Updates site of the Research Center Viktor Voksanaeva the March-April 2011

Catalog Updates site of the Research Center Viktor Voksanaeva the March-April 2011:

In the section - analysis of crises in Russia

Energy security of Russia (monograph 1998)

Journal FSB: Pros and Cons (December 2010)

REPORT ON THE FEATURES OF CLIMATE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR THE YEAR 2010 (ROSHYDROMET)

MARKET FOR NON-CASH RETAIL PAYMENTS IN RUSSIA:…

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Added by Viktor Voksanaev on March 10, 2011 at 10:35pm — No Comments

Competitive Advantage and Corruption

If Competitive Advantage (CA) is a position of a company in a competitive landscape that allows the company earning return on investments higher than the cost investment, then the CA should be relevant, unique, sustainable and with no way to be obtained by other means such as bribing the leadership of a country. While the country's leadership will be punished by its citizens,why the company that applied such practices and methods remains unpunished and intact?

Added by Dimitrios Philippelis on February 23, 2011 at 6:42am — No Comments

Darwin, Strategy and Competitive Intelligence

"Strategy, as we knew it, is dead [...] increased flexibility and accelerated decision making are much more important than simply predicting the future." Walt Shill, Accenture

"...more business leaders will start to rely less on static five-year strategic plans and more on rough "adaptive" strategies that consider multiple scenarios" Martin Reeves, BCG

"...situation room will bolster the client's mobilization of strategic…

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Added by glauber.css on February 21, 2011 at 6:23pm — No Comments

Collection of CI and OSINT Resources

We are pleased to announce a major update to our links directory of tools and resources for professionals working in open source and competitive intelligence: http://www.i-intelligence.eu/resources/links.

So please have a look and feel free to use this directory if it is helpful to you.…

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Added by Corine Löffel on February 21, 2011 at 8:49am — 2 Comments

I think some of the post on my blog will be interesting for CI professionals

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Added by Jose Martin Juarez on February 17, 2011 at 4:03am — No Comments

Competitive Intelligence (CI) Master Class by Vivek Raghuvanshi in India

Competitive Intelligence (CI) Master Class by Vivek Raghuvanshi…

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Added by Vivek Raghuvanshi on February 14, 2011 at 3:30am — No Comments

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Added by Anders Thulin on February 8, 2011 at 7:48am — No Comments

New in February 2011 on the site of the Research Center Viktor Voksanaeva

New in February 2011 on the site of the Research Center Viktor Voksanaeva

Dear Colleagues,

I suggest to read the information materials in February 2011 site of the Research Center Victor Voksanaeva

I hope that the material will be useful to all analysts

Sincerely, V. Voksanaev

Analytics

State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (FAO report, 2010)…