India's Investment Confidence Index remains flat Jan 2012: The 9th wave of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management - ValueNotes Investment Confidence Index (ICI) in India showed no signs of revival in the current quarter, and remained almost flat between July... 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.
Time has always been the most important and scarce resource for any corporate organization. Whether it is a manufacturing facility or a service provider, all the efforts are aimed at reducing operational time and enhancing productivity. If we talk about... 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.
How do I know the data is reliable? How can I make decisions with unreliable data? If one piece of data is suspect, is the entire database suspect? How do you validate published information? How do I know whether my respondent is speaking the... 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.
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.
