Competitive Intelligence Podcast August Jackson

Rick Marcet describes the innovative Win/Loss practices at Microsoft.

Luis Madureira joins us again to explain Marketing 3.0 aka Sensory Marketing. How can sensory details can enforce a firm's strategy and create a complete branded experience for B2C and B2B customers.

 

Merrill Brenner describes the Decision-Focused Intelligence framework for prioritizing and executing on intelligence projects that are going to drive important decisions.  This episode is particularly useful for CI managers.

 

Jan Herring describes the trends shaping the future of competitive intelligence, the future of the profession and what we can do to prepare for it.

 

 

Sean Campbell and Scott Swigart of Cascade Insights discuss their e-book "Go Beyond Google" which is a manual of Internet research techniques.  We also discuss the dynamics of disruptive innovation in technology.

 

In this episode I interview Ted Galpin, a fellow CI practitioner who blogs at http://strategicscience.org.  We talk about Ted's recent blog entry "The Problem with Competitive Intelligence."

Ted explains the gulf that exists between the typical CI practitioner's mindset and that of the executives we're working to inform and support.  Bridging this gulf, Ted advises, is the key to improving the efficacy (and employability) of CI practitioners.  Ted offers specific advice on CI professionals can go about building those critical bridges.