I assume, you know, why you want to find an influencer. I actually don’t like that term “influencer” and would like to use some synonyms like evangelist, thought leader, expert, expert blogger/columnist, curator. So let us say we want to find some one who is well known in a certain space. There are several ways… [Read more…]
March 18, 2012
We build tools to discover, gather and explore information. Here is one prototype we are playing with. It takes three publications and analyzes the top terms (we chose bigrams – pairs of words). Each tag cloud is build by analyzing the news feeds from these financial newspaper sources. Topic: You can create a topic… [Read more…]
March 6, 2011
The higher up I go when working with a good organization, the more often I hear conversations about the competition, what they will and won’t do, what they will and won’t defend. It is not enough to know your customer. You must grow equally acquainted with your competition and then focus on the few unique… [Read more…]
December 21, 2010
Mastering a complex discipline such as programming requires a great amount of learning over the course of several years, perhaps even decades. Maximizing one’s ability to learn is therefore an early investment that can quickly repay itself. The biggest impact on my ability to learn was caused by a shift in the way I considered… [Read more…]
December 19, 2010
How do you discover what you want to discover? This is a space of interesting possibilities and opportunities. Since its inception, the web has presented us with a discovery problem. How do we find something we wish to pay attention to (or connect with)? In the beginning this problem applied to just web sites –… [Read more…]
October 22, 2010
What is technology intelligence? Do you have it? Do you need it? Why? I wrote down a few observations and thoughts. Technology Intelligence is needed for almost every organization. Organizations in certain industries may need it more than others. If you have it, you will certainly have some competitive advantage over others, who don’t. Technology… [Read more…]
October 19, 2010
Every organization needs to keep track of information about a set of entities. For a business, these may be customers, partners or competitors. It may also be items related to the marketplace, industry sector(s) and related industries. Here is a simple mind map of a few things I can think about. This is just a… [Read more…]
September 13, 2010
How do you stay competitive? By leveraging emerging technologies. By having a strategy for Competitive Technical Intelligence. What the heck is that? There is an entire book written about it, but here is the essence in 3 bullets. Use technology intelligence to anticipate competitors’ capabilities and intentions Select the right technologies to investigate and track… [Read more…]
August 28, 2010
What Intelligence do you need as a company? Here are some ways of looking at intelligence you need to gather to stay competitive. Market/Industry Intelligence You need an idea of your marketplace, players in the space. You need to identify potential competition and partners. While you gather information about your marketplace, you may also want… [Read more…]
April 23, 2012
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