mostly research stuff
what’s going on with my life? i’m walking my dog in the woods on sunday morning and my treo is suddenly jammed with unsolicited instaurations…emails from unknown people telling me research stories…job inquiries…dozens of resumes…i could not put it together until i was sent this article on msn …done as a sorta halloween item, ‘mysterious jobs‘…
salient excerpt: “Some liken competitive intelligence to ‘corporate espionage’ or ‘the white collar spy game,’ but there’s more to it than that - a lot of black art behind the delivery,” Carpe says. His specialty is primary research, which is all about the sensitive source interviews - for example, calling employees of a client’s competitor to get answers to difficult questions without ever really asking questions. He then pieces together hundreds of seemingly unrelated data points and observations to identify an image or pattern. This information he later hands over to his client.”
i smell a pattern here folks….this happened to me a few months ago when an international pub wrote a piece called, ‘david carpe, business spy‘ …so yeah, i suppose that in the end getting attention is good stuff, right? …my poor dog, she’s probably so pissed that i brought my phone into the woods to begin with….
this blog is mostly safe for work, though i sometimes throw around a 'fuck' or two. you'll find a bunch of my articles from CI Magazine, SCIP online, other research pieces and some other crap. enjoy. there's lost of content here related to getting information about, around, from and through people and organizations...
Shally
October 22nd, 2004 at 10:00 am
Can’t be much of a spy if everyone knows who you are…
Dave
October 22nd, 2004 at 10:56 am
hah! well, it is (per the interviewer with whom i spoke) a sort of ‘euphemism’ - though doesn’t feel quite like an improvement or positive variation ;)