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Use Your Sales Force’s Competitive Intelligence Wisely

Harvard Business Review

That competitive intelligence can not only help individual salespeople become more effective, it can also help your company make better strategic decisions. They might expect the salesperson who receives it to offer better terms, for example, or to provide greater levels of effort and commitment.

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Cyber Security in the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

They tended to use the terms telematics and mobile resource management. What''s more, as systems built by different OEMs interact, there is infighting among them as to what constitutes sensitive or competitive intelligence. New approaches to cybersecurity are needed to address access to and deployment of this shared data.