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Use Your Sales Force’s Competitive Intelligence Wisely

Harvard Business Review

That competitive intelligence can not only help individual salespeople become more effective, it can also help your company make better strategic decisions. They might expect the salesperson who receives it to offer better terms, for example, or to provide greater levels of effort and commitment.

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

In my work in competitive intelligence I have met many managers and executives who made major decisions involving billions of dollars of commitments with only scant attention to the likely reaction of competitors, the effect of potential disruptors, new approaches offered by startups and the impact of long-term industry trends.

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The Future Is Scary. Creative Thinking Can Help.

Harvard Business Review

Second, think creatively by developing new mental models; audit — and then question — your organization’s fundamental beliefs and assumptions. What is your organization’s competitive space, and are there ways it might be redefined? If you or your organization didn’t exist, what difference would it make to the world?

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Cyber Security in the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

They tended to use the terms telematics and mobile resource management. What''s more, as systems built by different OEMs interact, there is infighting among them as to what constitutes sensitive or competitive intelligence. You should plan, too, to devote serious time and thought to developing policy around your IoT investments.