In this episode I interview Ellen Naylor of Business Intelligence Source. Ellen outlines the concept of Cooperative Intelligence and shares examples from her career as a practitioner and CI consultant.

In this episode, I discuss the future of the Competitive Intelligence profession with Arik Johnson of Aurora WDC. Aric discusses his theory of the asymetry of interpretation replacing asymetry of information as the key basis for delivering CI insight.

In this far-ranging interview Eric Garland of Competitive Futures, Inc. discusses the evolving role of CI and complexity in the global economy.

Eric Garland of Competitive Futures interviews August Jackson in a broad-ranging intellectual discussion on the changing role of CI in a post-Recession, post-Bush global business environment. Recorded 01 March 2009 in Washington, DC.

This episode is an interview with Karthik Vijayakumar on conducting Competitive Intelligence in India. Karthik is the President of Excedos, a CI research and consulting firm based in Chennai, India.

Interview with Suki Fuller, CI and Social Media Evangelist.  Suki can be reached on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/SukiFuller) or e-mail (shfuller@gmail.com).

Social Media Tools discussed in this podcast
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com
Brightkite: http://www.brightkite.com
Evernote: http://www.evernote.com
Adobe Buzzword: http://www.adobe.com/acom/buzzword/

The return of the CI Podcast!  An opportunity to catch up on what's been going on and look forward.

Belated greetings!  Any rumors of the demise of the CI podcast are over-stated.  The MBA and the day job are keeping me very busy, and I'm looking forward to a day when I am able to get back to interviewing CI experts.  In the interim I wanted to say hello and bring to your attention a few interviews I have given recently-- it's something to be on the other side of the microphone or paper.

First, let me bring to your attention the Jenerous podcast.  Producer Eric Mattson has put together a great podcast to help innovative marketers share their expertise with other marketing professionals.  The podcast is specifically geared towards technology entrepeneurs.  You can hear the interview here.


CI Podcast friend Alessandro Comai (interviewee for episode 19) co-edits a Spanish-language magazine for CI professionals called Puzzle.  In the latest edition they published a translation of my interview about the relevance of podcasting for CI as a tool for training and sharing CI products.  I've included the interview as published (as well as the text of my original interview in English) here.

I am very eager to hear your suggestions for future episodes of the CI Podcast.  Please send me an e-mail if you have thoughts, suggestions or contributions about the following:

1. Any real-world war stories about CI collection or presentation.  What worked, what didn't and what did you learn?
2. Primary and secondary collection methods
3. Best practices in CI collaboration
4. What does a quality CI product look like?

Thanks for your continued support and all the best!

Recently I came across several podcasts from the annual conference of the Special Libraries Association (http://www.sla.org).  I thought these were very useful programs.  I am working with SLA to get the appropriate releases to share all of these programs with the CI Podcast listening audience.  

In this session J.P. Sherman talks about search engine optimization and how this relates to competitiveness and competitive intelligence.  Randy Marcinko discusses the important relationship between content and meta-data.

Mike Lyden and Dan Bukowski, recent graduates from the Mercyhurst Institute for Intelligence Studies share their experiences and lessones learned from the Wiki on Global Diseases project conducted in conjuntion with the National Intelligence Council.  Mike Lyden is currently an analyst with McManis & Monsalve Associates (http://www.mcmanis-monsalve.com/).  Dan Bukowski works for Booz Allen Hamilton (http://www.bah.com).  More information about the Mercyhurst Institute for Intelligence Studies can be found at http://www.mciis.org.  The Wiki on Global Diseases project can be viewed at http://nie.wikispaces.com.