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We recently launched a email based educational series focused on LinkedIn. In the three part series – delivered directly to ...

A number of companies focus on competitor research.  But how do you tackle competitor research when you find yourself losing ...

Indeed is a tool that we’ve come to rely on across a number of different projects.  While there are caveats ...

Register here. Abstract: Job Postings serve a single primary purpose. To generate a solid candidate for the position in question. ...

Mining Job Postings – Play.

This is a transcript of the CI Life Podcast, Episode 37. If you’d rather listen to the podcast, click here. [music] ...

This is a transcript of the “Competitive Intelligence” Podcast, Episode 36. If you’d rather listen to the podcast, click here. Sean ...

As presented on 08/29/2013. Download the presentation here.

Understanding the Innovator’s Dilemma – Play.

Steve Ballmer will be retiring as Microsoft CEO in the next 12 months. Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 as ...

This is a transcript of the CI Life Podcast, Episode 35. If you’d rather listen to the podcast, click here. Sean: ...

This is a transcript of the CI Life Podcast, Episode 34. If you’d rather listen to the podcast, click here. Sean: ...

This is a transcript of the CI Life Podcast, Episode 33. If you’d rather listen to the podcast, click here. Sean ...

This is a transcript of the CI Life Podcast, Episode 32. If you’d rather listen to the podcast, click here. ...

We’ve launched another Inbox Education Series.  This time focused on how to effectively mine LinkedIn for Competitive Intelligence or Market ...

We’ve launched another Inbox Education Series. This time focused on how to effectively mine Google Trends for Competitive Intelligence or ...

Is secrecy important to your business’s success?  I can say with some certainty, probably not, even if your business tries ...

“Android users are currently downloading 500-million more apps per month than Apple” http://t.co/3vBM01F8p8 Reeder, gReader & Other Popular Feed Reading ...

This is a transcript of the CI Life Podcast, Episode 31. If you’d rather listen to the podcast, click here. ...

Chicago Sun-Times trains reporters to shoot with iPhones after laying off all its photographers http://t.co/1LyYNP01yK “Don’t prep with your panelists.” ...

This is a transcript of the CI Life Podcast, Episode 30. If you’d rather listen to the podcast, click here. ...

Three Ways to Look in Every Oyster But Only Keep the Pearls When you’re benchmarking a product or service against ...

Three Tests to Separate Opportunity from Folly Using weighted ranking for structured decision making requires the participants in the process ...

Three Guidelines for Choosing New Horizons Supporting sound business decisions is bread and butter for competitive intelligence professionals. A defensible, ...

We’ve launched another Inbox Education Series. This time focused on how to effectively mine Twitter for Competitive Intelligence or Market ...

Three Pieces of Ethical High Ground to Protect at All Costs Ethics are important in all aspects of business, but ...

Three Ways to Bias Your Interviews (or Not) Each of us brings particular strengths to our work, framed by our ...

Three Sources for Tips in the Search for Human Intelligence To learn from collective experience gained during the human intelligence ...

As presented on April 12th, 2013. Download the presentation here.

Three Aspects of Identifying Humans Any human intelligence initiative begins with identifying a high-quality sample of people to interview. The ...

There are a lot of great CI books, but few are as tactical as John Nolan’s seminal “Confidential: Business Secrets ...

Four Voices That Aren’t Right Under Your Nose Despite one’s best efforts, it is part of the human condition to ...

Four Ways to Go Beyond the Five Forces Michael Porter has been a management visionary for so long that it ...