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Competitive Intelligence | February 24th, 2012 | By
Varsha
Competitive intelligence is not only about knowing how to find the information you are looking for. It is also about
Asking questions that are relevant to your business. The decision makers who will use the CI need to be involved in deciding what questions need to be answered in order for the company to meet its
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Competitive Intelligence | December 29th, 2011 | By
Varsha
This is the season for forecasting – looking at what the new year might bring… Not to be left behind, here are my two bits on what 2012 will bring for competitive intelligence practitioners in India.
World economies are so intricately interconnected today, that it is not possible to talk about the business climate in India
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Competitive Intelligence | December 29th, 2011 | By
Varsha
Treating a patient for the wrong ailment will not make the patient better, but may actually harm him. This is as true for an organization as for the human body.
Strategy formulation (and planning) is undertaken at least once a year in most organizations; and more often than that in some organizations. Strategies are devised for
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Let me describe a recurring situation in almost every organization. When companies deploy critical business applications requiring 99.9% uptime, it’s because users expect this level of delivery. But this is not the reality. The system is up and running and it is close to 99.9% uptime, but the end users are still complaining that the
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Competitive Intelligence | November 14th, 2011 | By
Varsha
On the SCIP linkedin group I recently came across a survey to identify the education and career moves that can lead a person into the competitive intelligence discipline. It was most interesting to note that many of the competitive intelligence practitioners, even in countries more “CI mature” than India, got into their role by accident!
Competitive
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