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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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A Failure To Act – The Leader’s 5 Most Damaging Inactions

Lead Change Blog

Failure To Inform – It’s difficult enough to gain competitive intelligence; why would we withhold our own? Failure To Resolve Conflict In A Timely Fashion – Debate is a healthy and necessary component of everyday business. ” It can manifest itself as a plain old fashion lack of feeling appreciated.

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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. On the other hand, management never questions the actual use of this information by employees in brand, product, R&D, marketing, business development, sales, purchasing or any other market-facing function.

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Can you force innovation?

Chartered Management Institute

The process had its ups and downs over the millenniums but was it ever planned and executed as part of one group’s deliberate strategy or it happened organically as a result of many factors e.g. social developments that triggered the upswing cycle in this process? What can you use Competitive Intelligence for?

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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. It can be as simple as a shared file on Google Docs or Sharepoint, or a company-developed wiki. To make this data useful, designate someone at the company to take control of competitive intelligence.

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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. I wrote the following guide when I worked for a large global company (“ABC”) to help support a strategy to move executives across at least two functions, businesses, and countries. This last assignment forced me to develop a new leadership style.

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The Right Way to Use Analytics Isn’t for Planning

Harvard Business Review

Pharmaceutical companies spend millions upon millions preparing meticulous plans for new drug launches – and yet their route-to-market strategies haven’t changed in decades, even though the reality of the market has. Use competitive intelligence differently. Study personal use of intelligence.