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It’s dangerous to proceed beyond the evidence. A fact once logically arrived at should not be extended beyond its natural significance.
– George Smiley
Scepticism is crucial to finding insight.
Yes, benchmark your performance against competitors, but use the benchmarking results to be better than them. Not the same.
Fuse analytical acumen with real-time monitoring. Uncover competitors’ blind spots, dissect their campaigns, & anticipate their next moves.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts there are few.
– Shunryu Suzuki
To uncover untapped insight, focus on improving your interpretation skills & expanding your network of insiders. Embrace advanced tools & techniques, & always question assumptions.
Never interrupt your enemies when they are making a mistake. Saves you from spending money doing the same thing
We take Health and safety and our digital strategy seriously, but when was the last time we sat down to discuss what competitive threats we are going to encounter over the next two years?
Companies that solely focus on competition will die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
– Edward de Bono
Encourage different perspectives on a problem or question.
Appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.
The best intelligence sources have access to information, are motivated to offer it, can communicate with you and, most importantly, can provide proof.
Never dismiss anything as not possible
“They don’t ask the right questions, or they ask the wrong ones”.
Jay Baer
Reconnaissance is everything.
Jack Reacher
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupér
A good matador doesn’t kill a fresh bull. You wait until he’s been stuck a few times.
Chuck Rhoades
Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
Sam Altman, Chairman Y Combinator
Sir John Scarlett
The best form of defence is knowing about it in advance.
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The best intelligence sources have access to information, are motivated to offer it, can communicate with you and, most importantly, can provide proof.
To think of the future as full of possibilities create different future visions at the same time.
– Molière
Just using good competitive intelligence so you can copy your competitors isn’t the answer. Don’t want to the same as them. Want to be better.
Everyone has a story. You just have to ask.
It depends
So what? Why?
Good Intelligence comes with a feeling of certainty.
Assuming they see you as a threat, what weaknesses can they see in what you do?
Thinking analytically can be taught and improved with practice. By doing it, not sitting in a classroom.
– Alvin Toffler
Encouraging counterintuitive thinking will set you apart from your competitors.
Data is the least important part of the intelligence process.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
What are the key points within the information? What’s important and why?
Answers rarely hit you in the face, especially when industry experience, biases, and mindset assumption blinds you.
Be open to learn. To unlearn and relearn.
– Alvin Toffler
Galileo Galilei
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
If you want to catch a lion, a toy goat won’t work.
– John le Carre
Competitive Intelligence brings the stuff you wouldn’t know about them unless you were on the inside.
Never start a project without planning. Including the isolation of quality well thought out questions. Never ever agree to a request to find “everything” on a particular subject.
Small favours take the least effort and often give the best returns.
Great minds don’t think alike.
– Emily Gosling
Good Intelligence comes with a feeling of certainty.
The weakness of an enemy forms part of your own strength
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
You can not see what you will not see. Until it throws you out of the window.
Window by Hannah
Sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes it bites you in the ass.
Jack Reacher
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
– Marie Curie
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Galbraith
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Otto van Bismark
Denial is a great tool for producing a poor strategy and encouraging questionable decision-making.
Appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu
Samurai by Krys
A wise king knows what he knows and what he doesn’t.
– Tywin Lannister
The best sources of information come from those who work on the tools.
There is always a reason.
The human mind blocks out information that is contrary to where your worldview is.
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
– Captain Jack Sparrow
The first earth tremors pass quickly, often unnoticed. Then one day the whole city falls around your ears.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The weakness of an enemy forms part of your own strength…
A discussion between Haldane and a friend began to take a predictable turn. The friend said with a sigh, ‘It’s no use going on. I know what you will say next, and I know what you will do next.’ The distinguished scientist promptly sat down on the floor, turned two back somersaults, and returned to his seat. ‘There,’ he said with a smile. ‘That’s to prove that you’re not always right.
– Clifton Fadiman (ed.), André Bernard (ed.), Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes (2000), 253.Found at Today In Science History
The greats never sacrifice the important for the urgent, they handle the immediate problem and still make sure to secure the future.
– Bobby Axelrod
She had a plan until she got a smack in the mouth and it all went south
– Bono
Knowledge becomes power only when we put it to use.
Bono by Todd
In this rapidly changing and volatile world, the expectations required of those in the intelligence discipline are high – knowledge of the hidden and foreknowledge of the unpredictable.
Edward Waltz
The best form of defence against plots and attacks is to know about it in advance. And that is good Intelligence.
Sir John Scarlett
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
Never Interrupt your enemies when they are making mistakes.
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Michael E. Porter
Analysis is taking something apart to figure out how it works
TJ Walters
Analysis helps you see the world how it could be not how it was.
Never Interrupt your enemies when they are making mistakes
It’s like Highlander. There can be only one.
Bobby Alexrod
A good plan violently executed is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
– George Patton
Sir Paul Smith
Hard work without Strategy is useless.
If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.
– Yogi Berra
Conventional wisdom is often wrong. And a blithe acceptance of it can lead to sloppy, wasteful, or even dangerous outcomes.
– Levitt & Dunnet
All competition takes place in the future.
– J.k Lindsey
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