Is your organization competitive-intelligence ready?

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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CI in 2012 - When the going gets tough, the tough get going

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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Diagnosis for strategy formulation

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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End user monitoring - Top priority, but metrics unclear…

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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Education and careers in competitive intelligence in India

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!

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