JULY 2016 / NO. 1
TAGS: ISRAEL, MASTER CLASS, BIG BOYS BIG EGOS, FIMAT, VUCA, PETER THIEL

Strategic Intelligence in Israel

“I have attended a wide variety of training courses on Competitive Intelligence, but this Master Class Strategic Competitive Intelligence exceeded my expectations: a wide variety of intelligent and relevant tools with easily adaptable templates. I can’t wait to begin using them. Thanks so much!”, Iris M. Stein, Israel
The above is one of the testimonials concerning our Master Class held in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2016 with 45 business professionals attending from a wide variety of industry sectors. It was a real challenge for us to work with these Israeli professionals in what is seen as the “cradle of the most advanced intelligence practices in the world”. Our host was the Israel Export Institute. The previous day I had the opportunity to be keynote speaker on the topic “Big Ego’s and How to Create Countervailing Power” hosted by FIMAT, the Israeli Competitive Intelligence Forum. Both events were successful, and highly-appreciated, and delivered new visions on strategic competitive intelligence best practices over and above all expectations. I was able to make numerous new friends in this beautiful country.

We need new talent to make it happen

We live in a VUCA world with high levels of Volatility-Uncertainty-Complexity-Ambiguity. Who is ultimately accountable to see the dynamic changes in our business environment in a timely fashion and deliver insights and foresight. Over 60% of innovation is considered to come from outside your sector of industry. According to Peter Thiel, this is not just “one-to-n”, but “zero-to-one”, which makes analysis of the current and future competitive arena a necessity. What do we do with risk management, big-data analysis, sales analytics, strategy, market research and strategic marketing? Can we leave these tasks to risk managers, big-data analysts, strategists, market researchers, marketers and others? Can we continue by using the current silo-approaches? Industry desperately needs people who can pull all this together, a capability which has never existed before. It requires a real mix of insight, foresight, analysis, strategy and strategic thinking with the aim of delivering the essential course of action to be taken. The talent we need for this is that possessed by strategic competitive intelligence professionals.
In our master classes on strategic competitive intelligence, we provide a wide variety of solutions. One of the most recent examples of how a Top-50 company did this, is their appointment of a “Vice-President of Strategic Intelligence & Head of Future Disasters”.
“Industry desperately needs people who can pull all this together. This capability never existed before. It’s a real mix of insights, foresight, analysis, strategy and strategic thinking, resulting in the essential course of action”
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