Competitive Intelligence^TM magazine

A Discussion with Peter Richardson of Nokia: SCIP European Summit Keynote

Competitive Technical Intelligence: Past and Future
From modest beginnings in the early to mid 1990s, competitive technical intelligence (CTI) in business has grown into a widely recognized practice area of the broader competitive intelligence profession.

Evolving Technology Intelligence into Decision Support
The highest value-added work has the maximum influence on the biggest decisions. By selecting projects connected to decisions, we bring the intelligence effort closer to recognizable results that will ultimately prove its worth.

Reduce the Burden of Information to Make Time for Intelligence
Facilitating self-service information handling directly by subject matter experts can free the CI group from tasks better left to the internal customer. This runs the gamut from information gathering to interpretation.

Intelligence Versus Policy: Healthy Tension or Lost Cause
Relations between consumers and producers of intelligence are not naturally harmonious. If CI is to make a difference it is up to its managers and analysts to first recognize, then accomodate, the human differences between themselves and their customers.

Honey, We Shrunk the Industry: An Automotive War Game
Sponsored by the SCIP Oregon Chapter, workshop strategists saw for themselves how war-gaming provides a new look at businesses we know well. Here's what we learned from the war game results.

Creating a Lean CI Department in Just 18 Months
Instead of developing a separate competitive intelligence department within the company, we outsourced a major portion of the CI cycle, namely the collection processing, and distribution of primary and secondary information.

Editor's Letter

Interview

Out of the Box

Trade Show Intelligence

Intelligence Solutions

International Advisory Committee

SCIP UK Networking Event Series

Take One Step Forward

The Chair's Perspective

The View from SCIP

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