When you need research to answer a particular problem, how do you decide whether you will use secondary or primary research? Or, what the mix of the two will be? Do you decide on the basis of the budget you... Read More.
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... Read More.
Disposable income is a key growth driver for several industries in India such as consumer durables, automobiles, tourism, education, real estate, telecom, entertainment, BFSI and so on. These industries are interested to know where the disposable income resides by geography, occupation,... Read More.
“Can you do research and tell me what my key intelligence topic should be?” was a request from a market intelligence analyst to us recently. What he was actually saying, is that he needs pointers on what trends or developments... Read More.
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... Read More.
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... Read More.
Have you talked to a stranger today? Yes, I know what Little Red Riding Hood’s mother said, but if you are a competitive intelligence analyst, you are not doing a good job if you haven’t! Competitive intelligence is all about gaining... Read More.
Competitive intelligence (CI) is a relatively new discipline in India. That is certainly not to say that companies in India are not familiar with CI. All companies need to do CI and do so in some form or other –... Read More.
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... Read More.
While the practice of competitive intelligence is as old as competition and private enterprise itself, it has emerged as a systematic discipline and a profession in the developed economies only in the last 30 years or so. In India its... Read More.
