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How many “Battle Cards” does your company make?  I’m going to go out on a limb and guess “a lot.” ...

Episode 71: – How to do Win-Loss the Right way. How to get a complete picture of what’s going on out there, ...

These are the top Business or Technology focused presentations you need to see on slideshare this month. This month we ...

Episode 70: – How to use web data the right way – 3 tips for success How to treat data sources such ...

When a business buys a license for a piece on-premise software or a cloud service they may have a number ...

The following is our take on the best Slideshare presentations of the last 30 days.  With a focus on presentations ...

Episode 69: – 5 Fundamental Truths of Competitive Intelligence Collection and Analysis During this podcast we cover Five “Fundamental Truths” from ...

This presentation summarizes the key takeaways from one of the best articles we’ve ever come across on competitive intelligence collection, ...

Episode 68: – Technology Companies and Competitive Intelligence – The Ugly During this podcast we cover: The Ugly – What Technology ...

Discover how B2B marketers can gain better competitive intelligence information via big data. Below is the presentation Sean delivered at the ...

Episode 67: – B2B Technology Companies and Competitive Intelligence – The Good and the Bad During this podcast we cover: The ...

Below is the presentation Sean delivered at the SLA conference in Vancouver, BC this week. If you would like to ...

Below is the presentation Sean delivered at the SLA conference in Vancouver, BC this week. If you would like to ...

Below is the presentation we delivered at the MRA’s Insights and Strategies conference in Chicago this week. If you would ...

The Customer and Partner ViewPoint – Cloudera   Cloudera is respected as the 1st to market solution (i.e., unquestioned market leader ...

For quite a while now we’ve turned to TweetReach to generate quick statistics (volume, tweets per day referencing the hashtag, ...

Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report has become a “must read” every year for folks in the tech industry. While no ...

Episode 66: – Interview – Scott Brown – Qualcomm During this podcast we discuss: How a corporate librarian views competitive intelligence ...

During this presentation you’ll learn more about Voice of the Competitor (VOTC) research. First what it is, then how it compares ...

Given we do a fair amount of trade show intelligence work, and I deliver a fair number of conference presentations ...

We’ve just uploaded the all day version of our Framework Fight Club workshop to Slideshare. This is the same workshop ...

Yesterday I delivered the all-day version of our Framework Fight Club workshop to a packed room at the SCIP 2014 ...

Episode 65: – Investigative Recruit – Why it Matters During this podcast we cover: The key elements of investigative recruit. How ...

During the “More” Fabulous Frameworks webinar we covered: PARTS (#1) analysis from Co-opetition The use of the ERRC (#2) grid ...

Episode 64: – Is that Project Executable? During this podcast we cover: What it means to have an executable project. Ways ...

The best ideas stand the test of time.  And clearly the ideas offered by Geoffrey Moore in his book Crossing ...

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” – Thomas Huxley When it comes to learning something about ...

We recently delivered a webinar focused on understanding Voice of the Competitor (VOTC) research. During this webinar we covered how: ...

Below is a link to download the slides from Sean’s presentation at the Silicon Valley Capital Club on March 18th, ...

You can now download the recording and slides from our recent webinar: Accelerating Competitive Analysis: 5 Fabulous Frameworks Frameworks covered ...

Episode 59: – Interview – Co-Author – Big Data: A Revolution…” For more episodes focused on competitive intelligence and market intelligence ...

Episode 58: – Interview – Phil Britton – Best Buy – Part #2 – CI Ethics” For more episodes focused on ...

You can now download the slides or the recording of our recent webinar: Accelerating Competitive Intelligence Collection: Mining Web Metrics ...

What makes VOTC (Voice of the Competitor) research different than a typical Win-Loss study? Why is your typical Win-Loss study ...

We’ve launched another Inbox Education Series.  This time focused on understanding the differences between VOC and VOCC research. Each Inbox ...

Over the last few months we’ve been putting together a few educational series on various aspects of Competitive Intelligence and ...