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…i wrote this article for my column (drinking from the fire hose) in Competitive Intelligence Magazine, V8, N2, March/April 2005 - published by the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (www.scip.org)…
THE CURRENT STATE OF SOURCE MAPPING
“Another Saturday night and I aint got nobody.“ - Cat Stevens
For CI professionals, garbage in, garbage out means that [...]

found this interesting literature online…forgot all about this chapter after reading this thing eons ago - it’s sun tzu’s art of war, used to cost moola at stores, now free on the internet… thanks to maureen for steering me to this…
what is it exactly? it’s a free english translation of sun tzu’s ‘art of war’ [...]

cool news - got permission to reprint this wonderful competitive intelligence enchiridion from arthur weiss of aware (thanks arthur!)…this is a great read, particularly useful for those of you new to ‘ci’ or struggling to nail down a concise introductory piece….
Competitor Analysis - A Brief Guide
The Basic Principles of Competitive Intelligence
This guide to competitor [...]

sweet news! i contacted debbie bardon of bardon on call research and she has kindly granted me direct permission to repost her award winning article about primary research right here on little ol’ passingnotes.com in its entirety…this piece ran in competitive intelligence magazine (V7, N2, Mar/Apr ‘04 from scip), so to date it has been [...]

yesterday, i put up an outstanding article written by dean vandruff back in 1995 and explained that a) it was a huge cult item years ago, though still bears tremendous relevance and b) dean was super cool and let me reprint it all here out of the goodness of his heart…after putting it up, i [...]