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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

The second requirement is to anticipate response to your competitive moves so that they are not derailed by unexpected reactions. Internal operational issues including execution, budgets, and deadlines are paramount in a company’s deliberation, but what other players will do is hardly ever in focus.

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Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

For more than 30 years, most large corporations worldwide have adopted competitive intelligence (CI) as a way to expedite good decisions. and European corporations, from CI-trained analysts in marketing, business development, strategy, R&D, finance, and other fields. They had an average of 6.3

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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Big data providers from Nielsen to Gartner to IMS specialize in painting a picture of the market at any moment.

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

Event marketing is currently a very expensive and sloppy process in most firms because the relevant information is fragmented, difficult to assemble, and the “database” is often a pile of business cards. ” But it’s far from moneyball when it comes to event marketing. But it needn’t be that way.

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