CIQ Blog
January 2023 CompeteIQ Release is out! Salesforce1, Competitive News Narrow-casting, and Product Landscapes are now available.
Good Morning CompeteIQ Administrators, In January CompeteIQ’s feature velocity continued to accelerate. In Summary – Salesforce Mobile is now supported, Competitive Newsletters can now be narrow-cast, the Competitive Landscape module now supports Competitive Product visualizations, and continued advances in our AI/NLP suite improves data classification accuracy & relevancy across Competitive Trends, Win/Loss, Competitor News, Events…
Read MoreWhat happens to your career when you never have another opportunity to present a report at large meetings? Part 2.
What happens to your career when you never have another opportunity to present a report at large meetings? In the previous blog, I asked the question: If the CI’s future is a system-based, scalable, organizational approach to providing value, and that may never be able to present a traditional CI report in a large meeting,…
Read MoreWhat happens to your career when you never have another opportunity to present a report at large meetings?
I’ve been thinking a lot about what the competitive intelligence function, business division, or team will look like in the future. I suppose my motivation for this is to serve both my clients and myself. Forgive me. But after serving in this industry for almost 20 years, I still feel the sands sometimes shift beneath…
Read MoreSCIP.org’s Virtual Battlecard Workshop
SCIP.org’s Virtual battlecard workshop will deep dive into one of the most important competitive intelligence deliverables because they clearly articulate a value proposition. Help a firm win business, and show CI value in a demonstrable and measurable way. Sirius Decisions and the IDC have independently shown that as much as 80% of marketing content sits…
Read MoreCompeteIQ: Competitive Intelligence Platform
CompeteIQ ‘s Competitive intelligence Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, combines over 10 years of customer feedback with more than 30 years’ collective practitioner experience to bring you the Competitive Intelligence Platform. What is It? Tech blogger Jonathan Clarks states that it is much more important to think of a platform as a business framework. Meaning a…
Read MoreCOVID-19 and Competitive Intelligence
The post-COVID-19 future will be more competitive. COVID-19… What times in which we live. :/ Before I continue with this blog post, I want to say that I hope you are and your family is safe, happy, and healthy. We should be all thankful if you’re reading this that hopefully do you have remained intact during…
Read MoreVirtual CI Teams
A virtual team has its own purpose. This team is working to aid you in the analysis process and the general intelligence operations process. This is where your relationships with product management, marketing, engineering, technical marketing, and sales teams comes into play.
Read MoreExtended Teams
A competitive intelligence (CI) operational team structure is critical for the long-term success of a CI practice. This includes virtual teams and Extended teams, as well as executives or other higher-ups in a company. The field is your customers, which is where your field champions come in to provide feedback and insight. The next step…
Read MoreAn Indian wedding over a Zoom Call?
An Indian wedding over a Zoom Call? CompeteIQ’s own Sushen Dang, who lives in the Dallas Ft Worth area. Currently in India, traveled there a couple of months ago to get married. Then COVID-19 happened. He’s now taken it to another level. He and his bride Keerti, who live 24hrs apart,were married over the web!…
Read MoreField Champions
Competitive intelligence always focuses on research techniques of the intelligence practice–the analysis techniques. We focus on techniques like strength, threat, win/loss analysis, feature, or financial forensic analysis. One of the less discussed aspects is how to make a CI organization operational. How to bring that operation to an entire company. It is not a single…
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