Knowledge is Power.
– Francis Bacon
The Competitive Intelligence Center (CIC) is the destination blog dedicated to the systematic, legal and Ethical practice of gathering, analyzing and publishing “open source” competitive information.
“Competitive Intelligence is critical to gain and maintain a competitive edge. Through proactive CI efforts, strategic and tactical agility can be improved to outperform, outmaneuver and outsmart the competition.”
- Bill Tyson, Founder
In a nutshell: this site is designed to help you and your organization “Get Smarter, Faster” by creating business value through your timely and efficient competitive intelligence contributions. Effective CI produces information that is actionable for organizations so they can make faster, more informed business decisions. Please see Bill Tyson’s blog entitled Strategy In Action.
What’s in it for You? As a visitor to this site you get access to:
- Instructions, presentations and demos on several competitive intelligence topics summarized by Competitive Intelligence Center.
- A Toolbox, loaded with a 10 section “Best Practices” methodology for competitive intelligence activities and compiling competitive reviews.
- A simple 6 step process to follow to complete your own competitive reviews.
- Templates to use for compiling quick Competitive Reviews.
An extensive library consisting of categories of Competitive Intelligence topics and corresponding links to a wide range of CI resources. - An InfoSec section that includes information and services useful in protecting your online privacy and security.
- Value-added sources of competitive intelligence information and services available through our premium partnership program.
- Ease of access to periodic updates to competitive intelligence information, articles, whitepapers, sites, links and additional resources.
- A library of links to competitive Intelligence resources on the web.
Words of Wisdom
“I can’t imagine a time in history when competencies, skills and knowledge of the men and women in competitive intelligence are more needed and more relevant to a company being able to design a winning strategy and act on it. I can’t imagine a company not realizing the fundamental need for this today.” - John E. Pepper, Chairman of Proctor and Gamble
