I asked Google what the trends were around the interest in competitive intelligence, a common strategic discipline based on scanning the external environment. What I learned was shocking. Search volume for competitive intelligence drops Searches for “competitive intelligence” have dropped off 82% in the last decade. And note: there’s no bump after the crash of 2008. Even when the market …
Dear Intelligence Community – Cut the Crap
Hello esteemed member of America’s Intelligence Community, member of Congress, or more likely, the summer interns for some ancient Senator, My name is Eric and I have been writing about intelligence for some years now. Given the last few weeks, I would like to address the strategic needs of the intelligence community in light of the Cirque de Soleil of …
Getting executive buy in is a sham
It seems that every conference I ever went to on intelligence, foresight or research had a track about “how to get executive buy in” or “how to get a seat at the table” or “winning over the C-suite.” Today, I saw an article on this topic for the 95,000th time, and it occurred to me to finally crystalize my point …
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