Recent declines in the Western European lubricants market have sent some global marketers looking elsewhere for growth opportunities, but preliminary research for a new study by Kline & Company indicates that Western Europe might warrant a second look, especially for manufacturers of high-performance lubricants.
Strategy Software, Inc., a leader in developing software and services for managing competitor information, today announced that the company has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Bennion Group.
Under the terms of the agreement, Strategy Software has joined efforts with the Bennion Group for their complimentary services, which will be integrated into Strategy Software’s Competitive Intelligence Management System (CIMS), also know as the STRATEGY!(TM) Enterprise Suite. This significant enhancement to the functionality of Strategy Software’s CIMS provides general information collection, database population support, and database administration on the peripheral, enabling the Competitive Intelligence (CI) Manager the needed bandwidth to control and manage the CI process in its entirety.
In addition to keeping users well-informed of current market-related issues, firms should have an interest in ensuring that their Website becomes a valuable destination to customers and prospects alike. A good range of news, commentary and quotes, incorporated directly into the site, can serve this purpose well.
In today’s business surroundings, competitive intelligence is compulsory. There are many ways of learning what your competitors are up to, and they run the range from searching the web to hiring spies who will lie or steal to get what they want.
Research and Markets has announced a new report (Price: Euro 527) “Getting Pushy: Gathering Competitive Forces in the Mobile Email Market”.
The mobile email market is currently experiencing its initial wave of competition. Once the favorite of corporate IT departments, RIM is now under threat from a number of up-and-coming competitors. A new generation of disruptive players, innovative pricing models and low-cost business solutions have exploded onto the scene, seeking to take a piece of RIM’s leading market share.
Do you know what business wargaming is?
Gary Maag, Chairman and CEO of Proactive Worldwide, Inc., will present a session at the 6th annual Pharma and Biotech Competitive Intelligence Summit. The conference will take place on September 18 and 19, 2006 in Princeton, New Jersey, at the Hyatt Regency Princeton.
The Fuld-Gilad-Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence (ACI) is offering CI 101®Online, an online course on competitive intelligence, with interactive videos, discussion forums, and self tests. It is about the fundamentals of CI.
Even though it is not a substitute to a face-to-face class it might be considered as an introduction to the CI world.
From time to time the understanding of competitive intelligence in the media is frightening.
The San Franciso Chronicle just published an article (Spying: Business as usual Subterfuge seen as a gray area in world of corporate snooping) where the author (Carloyn Said) points out:
Corporate spying may be as simple as a company president visiting competitors’ stores to see what’s on sale, as elaborate as engaging outside experts to learn about a rival’s business or as high-tech as hiring a hacker to try to breach a company’s own security measures to identify weaknesses.
Even though the article Competitive Intelligence on a Shoestring is a bit older, it hasn’t lost any of it’s value. Jan Gardner describes the advantages of online research and the necessity of thorough analysis of the competitors.