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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. That’s just common sense, too.

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How to Get More Value Out of Your Data Analysts

Harvard Business Review

If you want to put analytics to work and build a more analytical organization, you need two cadres of employees: Analytics professionals to mine and prepare data, perform statistical operations, build models, and program the surrounding business applications. Use Your Sales Force’s Competitive Intelligence Wisely.

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Are Apple’s Patent Wars a Marketing Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. Plenty of management books describe patent litigation in such a narrow way: you file a suit to recover damages from someone who is copying you. So why has Apple not sued Google?

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Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World

Harvard Business Review

With almost a billion friends on Facebook, six billion cell phone accounts globally, and twenty billion "things" from refrigerators to bridge spans to micro-medical devices soon to be wired by Internet, the digital age is upon us in full force. Common Operating Pictures. Yes, you can download an app for that! None tell the whole story.

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