How Chinese Companies Make Investment Decisions in the U.S.

How Chinese Companies Make Investment Decisions in the U.S.

Jul 1, 2015

For the past decade, Chinese firms have invested close to $50 billion in the U.S., most of it happened in the last five years. Tom Tao talks about who these firms are, where they are, their industry focus, their preferred entry mode and most importantly for CI...

How to Reduce Risk of New Technology Commercialization Failure

Apr 8, 2015

How do you best introduce the concept of lean innovation, demonstrate the linkage to intelligence, and discuss how it might improve the corporate intelligence professional’s ability to impact decision-making? Lean innovation methodology is being used by numerous angel...

How to Create Controlled Vocabularies for Competitive Intelligence

Mar 18, 2015

While it’s easier than ever to keep tabs on your industry and competitors, the sheer volume of data collected can make it hard to organize what you’ve found – never mind finding it again later! A controlled vocabulary is one way to improve your CI-related monitoring,...

How Intelligence Skills Transfer Between Government and Business

Mar 4, 2015

How can today’s analysts and operators from national security and government transfer their skills to the business world and commercial sector? Does the opposite also apply, or vice versa? Learning objectives: Understand the similarities and differences in how...