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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. These cause more damage to the discipline than if management was simply ignorant.

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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. Note the geography.

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JP Morgan's Loss: Bigger than "Risk Management"

Harvard Business Review

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. The compliance-oriented risk manager of a failed U.K.

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The Future Is Scary. Creative Thinking Can Help.

Harvard Business Review

For instance, Google’s original aspiration was to build the best search engine ever; arguably the organization achieved that. This will enable you to look at data — whether trends, customer research, or competitive intelligence — in fresh ways, to be better prepared for an uncertain future.

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Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World

Harvard Business Review

They are the fuel in the engine of the networked world. Now you can line them all up, from social media, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, marketplace measurement, sales, and distribution. Transforming effects to results requires strategy, management, and even more collaboration. Don't stop at viral-by-design.

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Cyber Security in the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

The IoT will demand another round of risk management strategy review, new network security evaluation tools, and business model revisions. They tended to use the terms telematics and mobile resource management. Why Businesses Should Share Intelligence About Cyber Attacks. Risk management Tech industry Technology'

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American Competitiveness Demands Immigration Reform

Harvard Business Review

The perspectives and intuitive customer insights that come from having diverse employees — particularly employees who share cultural connections with customers — is real competitive intelligence. Much of the insight and global perspective American companies need to be competitive can be found on U.S. college campuses.