Revisiting “Peak Intel” and why I stayed in the intelligence field
In 2012 I started a minor controversy in the world of intelligence by publishing Peak Intel: How So-Called Strategic Intelligence is Making Us Dumber…
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SCIP Code of Ethics – How to Do Competitive Intelligence The Right Way
The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals Code of Ethics was established by practitioners to set a high standard of conduct for the…
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Excellent primer on political warfare and disinformation
Competitive Futures is doing more security risk analysis for clients as the tensions increase between Russia and NATO allied countries. The global…
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What is Competitive Intelligence?
Sure, it’s a buzzword now, but Competitive Intelligence has always been a powerful tool for any leader trying to gain an organizational advantage.
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The Impact/Probability Matrix: A Scenario Planning Tool
Scenarios are the basic tool for any serious strategic planning effort. If your organization does trend analysis and/or collects expert forecasts, then…
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More thoughts on the future of foresight
Today I find myself in San Francisco, CA for JPK Group Summits’ Business Forecasting and Analytics Summit. My keynote this morning was entitled The…
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Michel Godet comments on why Joe Coates was such a great futurist
A major component of the futures studies work at Competitive Futures is directly from the work of the late Joe Coates, eminent futurist to the U.S.…
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Sensors, big data, and advanced algorithms will drive strategic intelligence
In Why Software Will Never Replace Strategic Analysts, I laid down a theme I’ll be covering in my closing keynote for the Business Forecasting and…
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Ethical collection of competitive intelligence
Ethics is one of the most popular topics in competitive intelligence. Since CI is the collection of information on the activities of people at firms…
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Why software will never replace intelligence analysts
I’m excited to be speaking at the Business Forecasting and Analytics Summit in Chicago on September 21. My closing keynote is “The Future of…
