As Fletcher/CSI continues to celebrate its 30th year in operation, we pause to reflect on how the past thirty years have changed the practice of CI. This month my thoughts are about the larger CI cycles and where in the cycle we are…

Our 30-year anniversary coincided with the administration and analysis of our 5th Annual Effective CI Survey. We originally launched the survey five years ago to identify CI best practices and understand how they directly link to more…

As Fletcher/CSI reflects on the past 30 years of advising the world's leading companies, it is interesting to analyze how the Fortune 500 list has changed since our founding in 1988. Today, we focus on providing competitive…

Events, dear boy, events!” - Harold Macmillan (UK Prime Minister 1957-1963) Whether Macmillan ever uttered these famous words in response to a question about what makes governments change actions is open to conjecture, but he gets…

The adoption of competitive intelligence (CI) programs and practices is notably lower in Europe than the United States due to contrasting economic, cultural, political, and legal factors. One way to encourage the implementation of an…