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“Competitive Intelligence” Shouldn’t Just Be About Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

For the next year, Jessica Eliasi, then the director of Competitive Intelligence at Mars Chocolate, travelled the world running “competitive simulation” games with local market teams from Russia to Mexico to Turkey to England. To become more agile, s tart by rethinking your competitive intelligence process.

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Keeping Tabs on the Competition as a Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

Big companies have it easy when it comes to gathering and utilizing competitive intelligence. To make this data useful, designate someone at the company to take control of competitive intelligence. If you make competitive intelligence everyone’s responsibility, it will be forgotten. Use social media.

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A guide to great development moves

Great Leadership By Dan

Changing jobs is an often used and effective way to develop new leadership capabilities. Introduction Execution of Great Moves is one of the key strategies to support our Leadership Excellence Strategy. Many executives have said that this is where they learned some of their most valuable lessons of leadership. “I