Competitive Intelligence Podcast

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.

Arik Johnson of Aurora WDC discusses his new role at Aurora WDC working with organizations and academics to explore and address wicked problems in business.  We also get an update on CI 2020 and discuss the Intelligence Collaborative.  This interview touches on a number of big topics in business, strategy and competitive intelligence.

Luis Madureira is a CI practioner based in Portugal.  In this interview, he explains how he applied the World Class CI Framework to his company's practice and valuable lessons learned.

  John Prescott of the Univeristy of Pittsburgh School of Business describes the World-Class CI framework for benchmarking firms' CI functions.  On July 12, 2010 the World Class CI Summit will take place in Barcelona, Spain.  

Here is a PDF file of Jason Voiovich's article from the January - March 2010 edition of "Competitive Intelligence" magazine.

Jason Voiovich of Ecra Creative discusses his timely article "Branding CI: Challenges and Opportunities."  Competitive Intelligence has something of an identity crisis, and Jason describes the opportunity to create a true brand for the CI profession.

Seena Sharp has written a book about delivering and communicating the value of competitive intelligence, "Competitive Intelligence Advantage."  Seena and I talk about a wide array of topics related to CI, business and strategy.

This is my interview Tom Hawes of JT Hawes consulting. Tom is the author of the "Strategically Thinking" blog at http://blog.jthawes.com. We discuss aligning CI with business leaders' needs and blogging for CI.

In this episode I interview Ellen Naylor of Business Intelligence Source. Ellen outlines the concept of Cooperative Intelligence and shares examples from her career as a practitioner and CI consultant.

In this episode, I discuss the future of the Competitive Intelligence profession with Arik Johnson of Aurora WDC. Aric discusses his theory of the asymetry of interpretation replacing asymetry of information as the key basis for delivering CI insight.

In this far-ranging interview Eric Garland of Competitive Futures, Inc. discusses the evolving role of CI and complexity in the global economy.

Eric Garland of Competitive Futures interviews August Jackson in a broad-ranging intellectual discussion on the changing role of CI in a post-Recession, post-Bush global business environment. Recorded 01 March 2009 in Washington, DC.

This episode is an interview with Karthik Vijayakumar on conducting Competitive Intelligence in India. Karthik is the President of Excedos, a CI research and consulting firm based in Chennai, India.

Interview with Suki Fuller, CI and Social Media Evangelist.  Suki can be reached on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/SukiFuller) or e-mail (shfuller@gmail.com).Social Media Tools discussed in this podcastTwitter: http://www.twitter.comBrightkite: http://www.brightkite.comEvernote: http://www.evernote.comAdobe Buzzword: http://www.adobe.com/acom/buzzword/

The return of the CI Podcast!  An opportunity to catch up on what's been going on and look forward.

Recently I came across several podcasts from the annual conference of the Special Libraries Association (http://www.sla.org).  I thought these were very useful programs.  I am working with SLA to get the appropriate releases to share all of these programs with the CI Podcast listening audience.  In this session J.P. Sherman talks about search engine optimization and how this relates to competitiveness and competitive intelligence.  Randy Marcinko discusses the important relationship between content and meta-data.

Mike Lyden and Dan Bukowski, recent graduates from the Mercyhurst Institute for Intelligence Studies share their experiences and lessones learned from the Wiki on Global Diseases project conducted in conjuntion with the National Intelligence Council.  Mike Lyden is currently an analyst with McManis & Monsalve Associates (http://www.mcmanis-monsalve.com/).  Dan Bukowski works for Booz Allen Hamilton (http://www.bah.com).  More information about the Mercyhurst Institute for Intelligence Studies can be found at http://www.mciis.org.  The Wiki on Global Diseases project can be viewed at http://nie.wikispaces.com.

In this episode of the CI Podcast we hear from Roger Phelps, Principal of Phelps Business Solutions LLC. Roger shares some tips on how to use LinkedIn as a primary research tool and some of the basics to quality primary research techniques.

This is an interview with Alessandro Comai, co-author of "Mapping & Anticipating the Competitive Landscape."  Alessandro and co-author Joaquin Tena outline a framework for applying multiple analytical frameworks to gain a very deep understanding of an enterprise environment. http://www.mappingthelandscape.com.

Interviews and Impressions from SCIP 2007.

In this episode of the CI Podcast August engages in some shameless self-promotion in preparation for SCIP 2007.  The main topic at hand is creating engaged CI customers and developing products that will resonate with those customers.

Greetings CI Podcast subscribers!  Thanks to the support of Max Nelson and the fine people at Frost & Sullivan I am able to share with you the PDF of Max's presentation referenced in episode 16 of the podcast.

This week I had the opportunity to interview Max Nelson, Director of Strategy and Competitive Intelligence with General Dynamics.  Max studied analysis at the RAND graduate school.  In this episode he shares his impressions of the Frost & Sullivan conference and gives us an intro into quantitative analytical intelligence.  Your analytical horizons will be expanded!

This is a hodgepodge episode of the CI Podcast. Caling all CI veterans for their war stories!! CI applications for a new on-line media transcription tool. August sees CI everywhere in the MBA program. A podcast recommendation. Fortune says Google doesn't look at the competition, but we know better.

This episode is an interview with Adrian Alvarez of Midas Consulting. Adrian is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He provides an introduction into conducting and deliverying CI in Latin America. 

I wanted to bring to your attention the SCIP webinar "Competitive Intelligence Ethics" hosted by Richard Horowitz. Mr. Horowitz spoke at my local SCIP chapter recently and I learned a lot about the ethics and law of CI. Click here for info and to register.

A very lively and thought-provoking interview with Eric Garland, Principal of Competitive Futures and both a CI practitioner and futurist. Eric is also the author of the forthcoming "Future, Inc.: How Businesses Can Anticipate And Profit from What's Next" which goes on sale 30 November.

This is a very lively interview with Ben Gilad from the Academy of Competitive Intelligence and David Hartmann from Strategic Surprise. Ben talks about Strategic Early Warning and Blindspots, and David educates us on Proactive Asymetric Strategy. Your assumptions will be challenged!

A short hodgepodge episode highlighting a recent big business news story with a CI angle and lesson, a new book CI professionals should add to their fall reading list, tracking the Hoovers zeitgeist and an on-line forum for CI professionals.

In this episode I interview Alex Graham, Executive Director of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals. Alex discusses the results of two recent research surveys conducted by SCIP, the State of the Art: Competitive Intelligence (PDF of executive summary at http://www.scip.org/pdf/f_060608_stateofart_sum.pdf). He also discusses a survey of SCIP members on the question of certification and indications that the CI profession is on an upswing.

In a somewhat opinionated episode, we look at some recent articles in the general media which discuss CI. Included is a look at two articles which talk about the growth of the CI practice within the legal profession.

Interview with John McGonagle of The Helicon Group on the uses and misuses of Microsoft Powerpoint. Learn some methods to make the most of what can be a useful if flawed platform for the delivery of CI products.

Summary of the SCIP06 keynote by Professor Clayton Christensen and some related thoughts.

A welcome to new listeners from iTunes and Yahoo, a brief re-introduction to what the podcast is all about and an overview on a methodology to evaluate the reliability and credibility of information sources in a CI practice.

In this episode we talk about searching for specific URLs and filetypes and consider the potential for a proactive look at the files your competitors are hosting on their web sites.

In this episode we jump right into the topic of narrowing our Internet searches to specific sources and having some fun with word play.

In this episode we discuss an article from the 30 November of the Christian Science Monitor regarding intelligence methods employed by the People's Republic of China. This article is the basis to consider differences in perceptions and practices of intelligence and espionage around the world, and considerations of the role of counterintelligence. This episode considers the technical topic of which search engines (yes, plural) to include in a quality Internet search strategy.

In this episode we look at upcoming CI tradeshows, talk about CI in the news and explore a method for creating quality Internet search strategies.

This is the premier episode of the Competitive Intelligence Podcast. I'm requesting the feedback of my focus group on content, frequency, length and general quality of the show. Anybody who happens accross this podcast by accident can feel free to include themselves in that focus group. Please direct your feedback to jackson.august@gmail.com.