One of the very first things you hear when you attend a Competitive Intelligence (CI) seminar is that CI is the ethical gathering of intelligence. The reason that ethics is stressed so highly when discussion CI, is that if your CI team is dabbling in unethical behavior (and that gets exposed), it reflects upon your whole organization
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Convert Company Facebook Feeds into RSS, Then Into Useable Information
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I found a cool resource a couple weeks ago and think it has some definite possibilities for those Client Development and Monitoring projects that many of us have to create and maintain these days. The idea is to use information that companies dissemenate on Facebook, but in the more managable form of an RSS feed.…
Strategy – Asking the Right Question at the Right Time
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While prepping for a workshop on this morning, I began to think about the types of business development, client relations and competitive intelligence questions that are commonly asked at law firms, and how they tend to almost always be reactive in nature. Take the question of a partner coming to the development/intelligence…
Tuning the Process of Researching, Marketing and Selling Legal Services
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I usually read articles written by vendors with a grain of salt, but I think that Thomson Reuter’s Dave Whiteside’s article, “Stop Doing the Legal Limbo” has some good food for thought in it, and it plays into what we discuss here on this blog when it comes to Librarians playing a…
One of Our Own Is Elected to SCIP Board of Directors!
Our very own Geek, Zena Applebaum, has been elected to the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) Board of Directors! Zena has contributed to 3 Geeks for many years now and is also a full-fledged member of our internal clique known to us as “The Bradys.” Of course, Zena writes…
How the Sole Practitioner can Leverage the Intelligence of Social and Public Media
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Let Your Inner James Bond Out — Skyfall into Social Media Sleuthing
I’ve heard this this latest James Bond movie, Skyfall, is to be the best one yet. Spy extraordinaire, man-about-town, and basically the alpha-est of the alpha males, every male that I know wants to be him.
So how can you let your inner spy out when doing your super-sleuthing?
Here are a couple of…
Strategic Planners, Futurists, Competitive Intelligence, and "Coolhunters"??
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Once again, Futurist Andy Hines has widened my horizons and exposed me to ideas and professions that I never knew existed. Today’s expanded horizon covers the profession of “Coolhunters.”
Now according to Wikipedia:
Coolhunting is a term coined in the early 1990s referring to a new breed of marketing professionals, called
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Bird Watching Anyone?
Ben Gilad, noted competitive intelligence theorist once wrote something to the effect of “bird watching is a fun hobby, but you shouldn’t do it in the middle of a busy highway.” Greg’s last post about needing investigative reporters on staff is to me a bit like bird watching on a highway. I see the point,…
What We Need In This Firm Is An Investigative Reporter On Staff!
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A couple of weeks ago, I sat in on a webinar with a number of Alternative Fee Arrangement folks, including consultants and General Counsels from a few major companies. The talk was the typical discussion of change in the industry, need to adjust the billing structure, AFAs… yada yada yada… the…