Intelligence Tradecraft & Methods
How to Use the Business Model Canvas as an Intelligence Tool
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 are at risk.
How to Choose the Right Intelligence Diet and Avoid #Infobesity
CI industry veteran Zena Applebaum will step you through the many similarities between food and intelligence, and how your organization can avoid Infobesity!
How to Use Funnel Forms and CI Signals for Antifragile Reinvention
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 turbulent times.
How to Leverage the Power of Little Data and Consumer Insights to Understand Dynamic Market Trends
Insights from this “little data” will inform and guide “big data” healthcare transformation, as well as provide insight for other B2B markets facing similar challenges.
How to Harness Workforce Intelligence as the ‘Secret Sauce’ of Competitive Monitoring
Competitive profiling and monitoring relies on a combination of primary and secondary research to give us a more three-dimensional picture of competitive target organizations.
How Intelligence Practices Reduce the Fuzziness at the Front End of Innovation
The new product development process is not easy, and failure commonly occurs. “Fuzziness” frequently arises in the front end of innovation (FEI) from volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, resulting in difficulties leading to many of these failures.
How Not to Run a War Game – Lessons Learned from an Industry Vet
Don’t be intimidated, war games can be a very simple and pragmatic way to expose your senior stakeholders to industry and competitive dynamics and to thrust your organization into strategic and/or tactical action.
How to Drive Maximum Value from Your Intelligence Function
Ever feel your intelligence or research function could make a stronger impact but leadership just doesn’t listen? Provocateur Mr. Hahlbeck provides a framework for appropriately aligning your function, for ensuring equilibrium within your function, and developing a roadmap that leads to greater results.
How Four Cognitive Biases Deceive Analysts and Destroy Actionability
The best intelligence program can produce failure if cognitive bias goes unrecognized and unmanaged. Even if you engage in best practices, social bias, memory bias, decision bias, and probability bias can hijack your program.
How to Maximize the Role of Insights Throughout the Product Lifecycle
Product Portfolio Management is a critical part of the P&L “operating system” of nearly every organization. While the nuances may change from industry to industry, the core management tenants remain the same.