Aurora WDC RECONVERGE:G2 Kicks Off

John Hink, GE Healthcare intelligence leader, presents opening keynote: Fearless corporate cultures, bold leadership facilitate change. Reimagine. Recreate. Reinvent. Reinvigorate! The best and brightest competitive intelligence professionals gather in Madison,...
How to Use the Business Model Canvas as an Intelligence Tool

How to Use the Business Model Canvas as an Intelligence Tool

Overview While the business model canvas typically has been used by startups, intelligence practitioners can use the business model canvas approach in conjunction with CI tools to help organizations of all types to understand which components of their business model...

Why CI is Not Corporate Espionage

CI firms need ethical and moral collection elements in information gathering efforts. Aurora WDC’s RECONVERGE G:2 conference proceeded on Thursday morning with a compelling presentation by one of this year’s Jim Mathews Award winners whose topic compared and...
How to Choose the Right Intelligence Diet and Avoid #Infobesity

How to Choose the Right Intelligence Diet and Avoid #Infobesity

Overview We all eat, but very few of us have a “perfect” relationship with food. In fact, an unhealthy diet is the root cause of an outsized share of health problems and a global epidemic of obesity. In our organizations, we all need intelligence in order to make...
How to Use Funnel Forms and CI Signals for Antifragile Reinvention

How to Use Funnel Forms and CI Signals for Antifragile Reinvention

Overview Groundbreaking work on design thinking (Martin, 2009) and antifragility (Taleb, 2012) sets the foundation for this cutting-edge framework, packed with actionable insights for leveraging chaos as a force for enhancing your firm’s innovative capacity in...