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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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Use Your Sales Force’s Competitive Intelligence Wisely

Harvard Business Review

Your job as a manager is to know what your customers will do next month or next year. That competitive intelligence can not only help individual salespeople become more effective, it can also help your company make better strategic decisions. The strategic value of competitive intelligence can be far-reaching.

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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. The words "risk management" usually evokes less subjective, more data-driven pursuits. But data and objectivity can only get you so far.

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The Future Is Scary. Creative Thinking Can Help.

Harvard Business Review

Only when they challenged their long-held assumption that “We are a search engine company” could they then come up with the “We want to know everything” notion which sparked projects such as Google Earth, Google Book Search, and Google Labs, along with further improvements to their fabled search engine.

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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'