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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

The second requirement is to anticipate response to your competitive moves so that they are not derailed by unexpected reactions. In my experience, the competitive perspective is almost always the least important aspect in managerial decision-making. This competitive intelligence sign-off is simple to institutionalize.

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Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World

Harvard Business Review

Common Operating Pictures. Now you can line them all up, from social media, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, marketplace measurement, sales, and distribution. The big difference this year is not the technology," Joe Rospars, the campaign's social media chief said. Yes, you can download an app for that!

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Are Apple’s Patent Wars a Marketing Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. The most interesting aspect of the Apple-Samsung patent battle is that the actual technology war is not between Apple and Samsung. So why has Apple not sued Google? billion requested).

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How to Get More Value Out of Your Data Analysts

Harvard Business Review

If you want to put analytics to work and build a more analytical organization, you need two cadres of employees: Analytics professionals to mine and prepare data, perform statistical operations, build models, and program the surrounding business applications. Use Your Sales Force’s Competitive Intelligence Wisely.

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The Future Is Scary. Creative Thinking Can Help.

Harvard Business Review

Insist upon a culture that allows people to constantly challenge the most fundamental beliefs, hypotheses, and assumptions that they have about your organization, the industry in which it does business, and the world in which it operates. The established “rules” under which you or your organization generally operates?

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Cyber Security in the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

In particular, expect it to challenge your conception of cybersecurity and your ability to deliver it in IoT-enabled digital networks, your commercial operations, and your partner ecosystems. What''s more, as systems built by different OEMs interact, there is infighting among them as to what constitutes sensitive or competitive intelligence.