Competitive Intelligence Insight

Competitive Intelligence and lessons from the military gets things done We explain how Competitive Intelligence and lessons from the military gets things done. You can learn from the military to make sure you put everything in your packs and belt … Read More

How To Compete With My Competitors Using Competitive Intelligence Thinking In this article, we offer our thoughts on how to compete with my competitors using Competitive Intelligence thinking. Knowing who your competitors are is vitally important. And knowing how to … Read More

How to Ask Great Questions by Thinking Like a Competitive Intelligence Professional This article is called how to ask great questions by thinking like a Competitive Intelligence professional. Interesting things happen every time you ask a question. Especially a one … Read More

How to do SWOT Analysis With Competitive Intelligence Questions This post asks how to do SWOT Analysis with Competitive Intelligence questions. SWOT analysis is the most popular, well known and obvious strategic intelligence tool to identify Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and … Read More

How to keep ahead of the competition with Competitive Intelligence This article asks how to keep ahead of the competition with Competitive Intelligence. Business competition is usually very fierce. Especially if you work within fast-moving markets. And let’s face it, … Read More

This post asks how to find out things about my competitors. Every start-up and established business faces competition. Understanding who the competitors are in your game and what they do will assist you in staying ahead of them. Use Competitor … Read More

This post asks what is Competitive Intelligence in the real world? It offers an eight step process to understand how to do Competitive Intelligence. Here at Octopus Intelligence, we have many philosophies. And one of the most important of these … Read More

Which Competitive Intelligence Productivity Tools do we Use? Today we ask Graeme Dixon which Competitive Intelligence productivity tools do we use. All are not specifically Competitive Intelligence related, and everyone can use them.  Evernote Maybe it’s how my mind works, … Read More

Find Out What Your Competitors Are Doing We often get asked to find out what your competitors are doing. Competitor analysis has always been essential when doing business planning, sales and marketing.  When researching your competitors, you need to start … Read More

Would it help to have the tools to create a successful Competitive Intelligence function? In this article, we are going to come at this subject from a different direction. If Competitive Intelligence thinking has taught us anything, it’s to look … Read More

This article asks is Competitive Intelligence insight an antidote to lies and statistics? It is irrefutable that the whole world faces an entirely new set of challenges and opportunities. And one’s that will almost certainly reflect unexpected and unknown elements. … Read More

This article is called Competitive Intelligence thinking go for when up against a competitor. You are sitting in your office with your sales director. She tells you that a competitor is telling clients that their new product is game-changing. Their … Read More

London: Octopus Intelligence announce a complete rebuild of their website www.octopusintelligence.com The original website was a break from the norm within the Competitive Intelligence and Corporate Intelligence field. No pictures of radar screens, rockets, chess pieces and lighthouses. Octopus understood they … Read More

This article offers 5 ideas on how to ask better questions for Competitive Intelligence. One of the main reasons why questions are crucial to Competitive Intelligence is that they show us what we don’t know.  When we ask a great … Read More

This article discusses what’s Competitive Intelligence got to do with Situational Awareness? It uses British Military examples. And breaks down Situation Awareness down to Look, Think and Act.  To understand what’s going on in our world, we all need to … Read More