Competitive Intelligence

Strategic Insights is a global enterprise intelligence consulting firm that helps companies use intelligence to protect their business against financial loss, maintain a competitive advantage,establish best practices and identify strategic opportunities.

Recent highprofile cases involving questionable factfinding techniques performed in the name of competitive intelligence have made board members and executives wary of its use as an effective business tool. According to Strategic Insights, companies that rely strictly on traditional competitive intelligence to protect their leadership position could be putting billions of dollars at risk. (more…)

Information is power. True enough. But synthesizing information into critical competitive insights that drive corporate strategy is the real art of the competitive intelligence function. Indeed, highly effective CI leaders at top pharmas can attest to the profound return on the bottom line that their departments have been able to generate. Moreover, increased pricing transparency in the marketplace means CI insights will play a more powerful role than ever in besting the competition and driving significant value add in the future.

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Mr. David J. Kalinowski, President and COO of Proactive Worldwide, Inc., has won a seat on the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) board of directors for a three-year term starting in 2007.
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Primary Impact Authors Overview of China Plastics Industry and Makes Available Subscription Studies on China’s Masterbatch, Compounding, Injection Molding, and Extrusion Markets.

The China Plastics Overview, free from Primary Impact, will provide clear information about the areas of growth, opportunity, and challenges in this dynamic market place. The study, which was produced for and sponsored by PlasticsNews, a trade publication serving the international plastics industry, was released at its first “Plastics News China Forum 2006 - Navigating China’s Business Landscape”, held November 14 - 15, 2006 in Chicago. The forum provided plastics industry decision-makers with current information and trends, and brought together experts in the field to share industry knowledge.

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HiTIS – life science & biotech intelligence, a European life sciences industry focused competitive intelligence firm, added recently a neurodegenerative diseases therapies-focused publication to its family of periodical competitive intelligence reports.
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BioInformatics, LLC, is a market research and consulting firm serving the life science industry. BioInformatics has released a new catalog featuring 21 market research reports. BioInformatics reports are based on the experiences and expectations of a huge amount (hundreds, sometimes even thousands) of scientific customers who buy products to support their research.

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According to a province-wide online study of nearly 600 adult British Columbia and Alberta residents conducted by Ipsos Reid on behalf of the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA), consumers are very knowledgeable and supportive of companies that conduct business intelligence (BI) activities, and personally participate in a wide number of these activities. However, consumers are also very skeptical and suspicious about data mining, and have significant concerns about invasion of personal privacy, and the potential misuse of this information.
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Dialog, a Thomson business, today announced that it has added the TRADEMARKSCAN®–Australia database to the Dialog platform, further expanding its intellectual property portfolio and providing greater coverage for the Asia-Pacific region. Dialog also offers trademark coverage for Japan and South Korea, having added the TRADEMARKSCAN®–South Korea database in June 2006.
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Mr. David J. Kalinowski, President and COO of Proactive Worldwide, Inc., has been nominated as a candidate to serve on the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) board for 2007-2009. A voluntary position, board membership represents significant peer recognition and has a direct impact on the direction of the CI field. Mr. Kalinowski is among eight CI professionals tapped for this honor. Of these, four will emerge from the nomination process as SCIP Board Members.
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The 2007 edition of U.S. Industry & Market Outlook is published and available for purchase. The 2007 U.S. Industry & Market Outlook features over 120 major U.S. industries and 500+ minor industries.
With over 250 pages, the 2007 U.S. Industry & Market Outlook features:
• 2007 establishments, employment and sales totals for each industry
• 2008 forecast establishments, employment and sales totals for each industry
• 5-year trend establishments and sales totals
• Industry financial ratios such as sales per employees, sales per establishment and employees per establishment
• 2006 establishments, employment and sales totals for 500+ minor industries
• Industry definitions and descriptions
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