Tag Archive for: competitive intelligence

Inspirational Blogs: Getting To Grips With Big Data

Normally when we do a post about our favorite bloggers we focus on one blog and why you should consider adding it to your reading list. This week we’re doing something a little different. Today we will be mentioning several blogs, and our focus will be on a single topic instead: Big Data. Read more

Classic strategy tools: Porter’s Four Corners Model

Firms don’t exist in isolation. It’s jungle out there and it’s every firm for themselves. This makes the strategists job more complicated. It’s not enough simply for the analyst to look at their own core competencies and attempt to maximize them. No, the corporate strategists job is also to out-maneuver their chief competitors. Here we look at one of the classic strategy tools used to figure out what your competitors’ likely next moves are.

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