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How Cycles Intelligence Can Transform Your Organization’s Strategy

June 24, 2019

Intelligence Briefings, Predictive Foresights

Since the 1980s-1990s we have seen not that many new tools & techniques within the area of strategy and competitive intelligence. Research of SCIP during the last couple of decades confirms this. We still speak of Porter’s Five Forces, Where-to-Play & How-to-Win, Strategic Sweet Spot Analysis, Strategy under Uncertainty, Porter’s Four Corners Analysis, Extrapolation, Key Success Factor Analysis, Scenario Planning & Analysis and SWOTI. Most managers, professionals and leaders are familiar with these tools and techniques.In this article I argue for a totally new way of looking at strategic planning & competitive intelligence. And how I was able to implement this at our company.

Most managers ignore small changes

May 1, 2016

Joseph Rodenberg

A World View, Intelligence Briefings

In the previous Intelligence Briefing, we discussed “Key Predictive Indicators” explaining the upcoming slowdown of the Chinese economy that might shock Western economies in 2018-2020. Sometimes banks also try to do this.Let’s take the example of Saxo Bank, which listed “Ten Outrageous Predictions for 2016”, which we could consider as potential Grey Swans.

Companies do not exist for ever

October 15, 2015

Joseph Rodenberg

A World View, Intelligence Briefings

“Why don’t companies last forever? Why do so many companies face serious problems after years of success? Why does management not react if the success rate of organizations comes to an end?”This is because your company’s internal business intelligence dashboards, your big-data analytics, and the managers with titles like market insights, customer insights, marketing intelligence and market intelligence do not deliver the right intelligence!

Out-thinking competition

December 15, 2014

Joseph Rodenberg

A World View, Intelligence Briefings

You will have the ability to out-think your rivals in the marketplace if your company is able to observe emerging trends before its competition does. A key challenge is to organize the early warning signs of critical changes.

The four barriers to interactions

March 1, 2014

Joseph Rodenberg

A World View, Intelligence Briefings

Most localities have a few individuals who know many people across social and professional boundaries and facilitate networking amongst them. These people are called ‘connectors’.“It is amazing to see how the strategic intelligence solution of MI7 discovers and visualizes these new connectors in and beyond your sectors of industry and across the globe”