News and Events: Publications
Commentary
- Embedding CI Education in Corporate Training Programs
- It's good to provide CI education broadly within an organization . . . to a point.
- Demystifying Early Warning Intelligence
- Continuously monitoring and assessing changing industry conditions doesn't have to be hard.
- Sources of Surprise
- Managers abhor surprise. But, understanding its origins is the first step in managing it.
- The Benefits of a Win-Loss Program
- Only a well-organized and sustainable win-loss program can yield results. But, the results are significant.
- Learning From Loss
- The challenges and benefits of win-loss programs.
- Business Trends for 2012
- Five trends that carry significant implications for competitive intelligence and strategy functions.
- Corporate Moneyball
- In business, as in baseball, companies must use the right metrics to spot opportunities.
- The Disruptor's Dilemma
- How industries are configured can play a significant role in determining their winners and losers.
- Visualize This!
- Data visualization tools can make communicating complex competitive intelligence insights simple and straightforward.
- Using Word Clouds to Improve Competitive Analysis
- Inexpensive web-based tools can help analysts derive meaning from an ever-increasing influx of information.
- Educating the CI Consumer
- Improving your company's competitive intelligence function starts with creating educated users.
- The Ongoing Evolution of Competitive Intelligence Software
- CI technology tools have failed to keep pace with new business models.
- Challenging Corporate Taboos With Wargaming
- How business wargames can help companies confront their own stereotypes and blindspots.
- Throwing Cold Water
- It's our job as competitive strategists to challenge and question the prevailing conventional wisdom.
Articles
- Reassessing the Competitive Intelligence Role
- As budgets for competitive intelligence begin to recover, what should you consider when recharging your CI function?
- Refining Intelligence Requests
- Sometimes, the most effective intelligence analysts are the ones who can redirect executives' requests.
- The Death of the CI Professional
- How changing corporate intelligence needs are challenging the model of the full-time CI professional.
- Early Warning Indicators
- Developing indicators for an early warning function involves three critical and distinct steps.
- International CI
- Why conducting CI across global geographic boundaries requires a softer approach.
- Your Company's New Foray into Competitive Intelligence: Factors for Success
- What senior executives need to know before they inaugurate a new CI function.
- Three Words: Communication, Communication, Communication
- The best CI analysis can be ineffective if communicated poorly.
- Ethics: The Limits of Intelligence Gathering
- Some not-so-obvious guidelines for ethical intelligence gathering.
- The Right Questions To Ask
- Good intelligence analysis starts with knowing which questions to answer.
- The Role of Human Bias in Analysis and Decision-Making Accuracy:
- How human cognitive imperfections impede analytical reasoning.
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