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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. Just ensuring that managers look at and consider competitive perspective should in principle, improve decisions. A Simple Yet Powerful Suggestion. That’s just common sense, too.

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Into the mind of your Competitor

Chartered Management Institute

You do not have to be an expert in Competitive Intelligence (C.I.) This article will introduce you to the power of C.I. to realise that the economy has undergone significant realignment over the last year remonding us all that business is inter-dependent. and some of the analytical thought patterns required.

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Social Media for CEOs

N2Growth Blog

Social media also allows you access to business, market, and competitive intelligence in real time. . Business Benefits : Yes, I know, you’re the CEO and you have to pay attention to business. alone, which is more than 60% of the U.S. internet population.

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The Right Way to Use Analytics Isn’t for Planning

Harvard Business Review

It has been one of the most powerful and trusted brands in that market and held a commanding 63% market share. In his best-selling book, Superforecasting , Philip Tetlock states “The job of intelligence is to speak truth to power, not tell [the powers] temporarily in charge what they want to hear.”

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Are Apple’s Patent Wars a Marketing Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

The Apple-Samsung battle shows that patent litigation can be a much broader and powerful strategy. Firms need to learn the value of each other’s patents to settle disputes, and court decisions are a powerful way to learn. In particular, there are two features of the case which are worth pointing out.

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Why the Best Salespeople Get So Lucky

Harvard Business Review

But if you downplay the power of luck, you stand to fall behind competitors who have learned how to manage it. Gathering competitive intelligence. The more field intelligence a salesperson has, the smarter and luckier he or she becomes. The greater the provoked luck, the higher the performance.

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JP Morgan's Loss: Bigger than "Risk Management"

Harvard Business Review

Whatever the technical arguments will be, as accounting professor Michael Power warns us , the forthcoming debates cannot be abstracted from social questions of the credibility and legitimacy of experts (risk experts, regulators and so on): the "how" of risk management remains inextricably linked to the status of "who" does it.