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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. In my experience, the competitive perspective is almost always the least important aspect in managerial decision-making. This competitive intelligence sign-off is simple to institutionalize.

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Managing Risks Means Managing Arguments

Harvard Business Review

Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing. How Competitive Intelligence Rules Encourage Cheating. But in the meantime it's much more art than science. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

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Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World

Harvard Business Review

Common Operating Pictures. Now you can line them all up, from social media, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, marketplace measurement, sales, and distribution. Here's the physics of staying on your deck jumping a 360-degree ollie while riding fakie. Yes, you can download an app for that! None tell the whole story.

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