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 tool for scenario planning
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…
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The Evolution of Forecasting
This infographic shows that the process of foresight has always been primary for humans. Blessed and cursed with the ability to perceive linear time,…
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How to Use STEEP Trend Analysis in Business Strategy
One of the most popular tools in foresight is the STEEP trend analysis framework. “Future trends” can be a large, unwieldy subject because nearly…
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The Future Intelligence Process
Competitive Futures has been providing global businesses and government agencies with strategic intelligence based on The Future Intelligence Process…
