Strategy

Going Beyond the Basics: How Leveraging a CI Vendor Can Support CI Unit Growth

Competitive intelligence, strategy, and market intelligence leaders across all industries feel the same pressures: The pressure to demonstrate the value of their CI function and grow it The pressure to regularly return actionable…

November 30, 2018 Read more

The Competitive Intelligence Market Cycle

Competitive Intelligence | Strategy

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…

October 29, 2018 Read more

How Big Data Affects Social (and CI) Polarization

Strategy

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Former US Senator "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." – Benjamin Disraeli, Former UK Prime…

September 24, 2018 Read more

Demand-Based Pricing: Risk or Reward?

Strategy | Technology

Recently, I have been wondering about the explosion of demand-based pricing algorithms used by a growing set of industries. Pricing strategies have certainly evolved since our founding thirty years ago, and it seems like demand-based…

July 31, 2018 Read more

Is Your CI Unit Effective? Insights from the 5th Annual Effective CI Survey

Competitive Intelligence | Strategy

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…

June 28, 2018 Read more

Past and Present: The Fortune 500 in 1988 vs. 2018

Competitive Intelligence | Strategy

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…

March 14, 2018 Read more

2018 – The Speed of Disruption, Innovation and Re-Invention will Only Increase

Strategy

In the UK and Europe, we are living in a time that is both extraordinary and turbulent. The UK government reports creation of over 660,000 start-ups over the last 12 months, which is an alarming number for a country that historically…

February 13, 2018 Read more

The Future of Distracted Driving & Crash Avoidance Technologies

Finance & Insurance | Strategy

Background: Distracted driving is an old issue responsible for a significant share of all accidents. It ranges from parents looking in the back seat to discipline misbehaving children to anything that takes the driver’s focus off…

October 4, 2017 Read more

A Lesson from Macmillan: Why We Need to Strategize Three Steps Ahead of the Game

Competitive Intelligence | Strategy

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…

August 17, 2017 Read more

Competitive Intelligence is Different on Each Side of the Atlantic. Can Risk Assessment Bridge the Water?

Competitive Intelligence | Strategy

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…

April 26, 2017 Read more

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