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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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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. In any case, it should be clear that you don't want to just let the loudest voices win.

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The Future Is Scary. Creative Thinking Can Help.

Harvard Business Review

Insist upon a culture that allows people to constantly challenge the most fundamental beliefs, hypotheses, and assumptions that they have about your organization, the industry in which it does business, and the world in which it operates. The established “rules” under which you or your organization generally operates?

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Cyber Security in the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

In particular, expect it to challenge your conception of cybersecurity and your ability to deliver it in IoT-enabled digital networks, your commercial operations, and your partner ecosystems. They tended to use the terms telematics and mobile resource management. They must also deliver new levels of autonomy to operations.