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“Competitive Intelligence” Shouldn’t Just Be About Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

For the next year, Jessica Eliasi, then the director of Competitive Intelligence at Mars Chocolate, travelled the world running “competitive simulation” games with local market teams from Russia to Mexico to Turkey to England. To become more agile, s tart by rethinking your competitive intelligence process.

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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. The strategic value of competitive intelligence can be far-reaching. But research I conducted with Douglas E.

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You Can Make Your Sales Data a Lot Better with a Little Discipline

Harvard Business Review

Establishing a data backbone is one part of the business intelligence equation, but fleshing out the ribs (contact information, credit history, competitive intelligence, etc.) The following strategies can help you improve your business intelligence through better data management: Clean house on marketing and sales contacts.

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Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

For more than 30 years, most large corporations worldwide have adopted competitive intelligence (CI) as a way to expedite good decisions. For these decisions – the ones that were improved by competitive intelligence — CI analysts reported many applications of their insights.

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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.