The information explosion has played havoc with people’s schedules. One estimate puts the annual economic loss due to information overload at $900 billion (globally). While drowning in information, they are starved of usable knowledge. If organizations miss market signals, they risk... Read More.
India’s proposed National Manufacturing Policy (NMP) has ambitious objectives of creating employment for 100 million people and taking the share of manufacturing in India from the current 16% to 25% by 2022. Competitive intelligence is a key ingredient that policymakers... Read More.
Competitive intelligence can be likened to an insurance policy for a company – it helps mitigate risks arising from developments in the external environment by providing timely warnings. Thanks to heightened global economic uncertainties, the CI insurance premiums have been rising... Read More.
Company profiling for competitor analysis Our client, a leading global provider of specialized solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and consumer health wanted to undertake competitor analysis for its strategic planning process. They needed competitor profiles to: - Enable them to conduct appropriate analysis... Read More.
All of us have received gifts at some time or the other – on birthdays perhaps? All gifts are fun to open, but once in a while we have received something that was exactly what we wanted – the perfect... Read More.
November 2009: ValueNotes made a presentation - The deep web unfolded: Effective use of the invisible web for CI - at a SCIP conference in Chicago. The session highlighted: The challenges faced while searching for information on the web The... Read More.
August 2009: e-learning has become a crucial part of an organisation’s strategy to deliver training and education. But maintaining e-learning systems within the organisation equals more costs. The solution? Outsource. Internationally, corporations, educational institutions and governments are moving from dealing... Read More.
How can small businesses in India do competitive intelligence (CI)? I had the opportunity to discuss this with a group of small businesses at the TiE breakfast event in Pune last month. Small businesses have limited resources at their disposal and... Read More.
Doing business is getting riskier. Increased globalisation, rapid technological changes, regulatory shifts, etc. have increased the competitive pressures that companies face. Knowing that their environment has more variables, it is logical that companies take actions to mitigate risks. In this... Read More.
Competitor profiles is possibly the most frequently produced competitive intelligence output. But it is also perhaps one that is least critically evaluated. It is one of those things that are done because we have always done them; it never occurs... Read More.
