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The Competitive Intelligence Slope of Enlightenment

“Some thoughts after 2 decades of Competitive Intelligence practice.”  When I joined the Competitive Leadership Team at Cisco back in 2001, we didn’t know what the heck we were doing. We were created by the executive leadership during the financial downturn of the 2000/2001 era. We were given a task, but not a methodology. And…

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SCIP.org’s Virtual Battlecard Workshop

SSCIP .orgs Virtual battlecard workshop

SCIP.org’s Virtual battlecard workshop will deep dive into one of the most important competitive intelligence deliverables because they clearly articulate a value proposition. Help a firm win business, and show CI value in a demonstrable and measurable way. Sirius Decisions and the IDC have independently shown that as much as 80% of marketing content sits…

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CompeteIQ: Competitive Intelligence Platform

Software as a service built for sales

CompeteIQ ‘s Competitive intelligence Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, combines over 10 years of customer feedback with more than 30 years’ collective practitioner experience to bring you the Competitive Intelligence Platform. What is It? Tech blogger Jonathan Clarks states that it is much more important to think of a platform as a business framework. Meaning a…

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The Executive Steering Committee (ESC)

ESC The Executive Steering Committee visual

ESC The Executive Steering Committee provides strategic direction and is the decision-making body of the project, in charge of overseeing progress and facilitating global collaboration among the participants. The Committee consists of the coordinators of the 10 biomedical sciences research infrastructures that are contributing to the project.

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Virtual CI Teams

Virtual CI Teams

A virtual team has its own purpose. This team is working to aid you in the analysis process and the general intelligence operations process. This is where your relationships with product management, marketing, engineering, technical marketing, and sales teams comes into play.

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Extended Teams

CI Teams

A competitive intelligence (CI) operational team structure is critical for the long-term success of a CI practice. This includes virtual teams and Extended teams, as well as executives or other higher-ups in a company. The field is your customers, which is where your field champions come in to provide feedback and insight. The next step…

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An Indian wedding over a Zoom Call?

zoom wedding

An Indian wedding over a Zoom Call? CompeteIQ’s own Sushen Dang, who  lives in the Dallas Ft Worth area. Currently in India, traveled there a couple of months ago to get married. Then COVID-19 happened. He’s now taken it to another level. He and his bride Keerti, who live 24hrs apart,were married over the web!…

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Field Champions

Competitive intelligence always focuses on research techniques of the intelligence practice–the analysis techniques. We focus on techniques like strength, threat, win/loss analysis, feature, or financial forensic analysis. One of the less discussed aspects is how to make a CI organization operational. How to bring that operation to an entire company. It is not a single…

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