Want to buy a CI-related website?  MarkIntell.com is for sale.

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On the lighthearted side of things, a discussion has broken out at the Ning CI group about peoples' favorite quotes related to CI and strategy.  My personal favorite so far is the Donald Rumsfeld quote:

The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

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At her blog Cooperative Intelligence Ellen Naylor has a post about win-loss analysis and how she's discovering a new way to look at it through the eyes of a non-CI professional services rainmaker:

What I found most interesting was Ford’s experience in professional services firms where partners do the work and make or lose the sale so there isn’t a dedicated sales force.  Ford’s focus isn’t competitive intelligence so his perspective is valuable to those of us with our heads in the competitive intelligence sandbox.

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August Jackson has a fine post that essentially expounds on his statement that "your competition is any entity that can deliver the same fundamental value to the customer that you do."  He invokes Saturday Night Live and Guitar Hero so you know it has to be good.

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At AlacraBlog they continue their look into the decline of sell side research and offer this interesting tidbit at the end:

Alacra has seen an increase in the number of buy-side accounts purchasing content from the Alacra Store (www.alacrastore.com), and a similar increase in the number of buy-side firms with access to Alacra Premium.  More traditional market research is being used as investment research and, somewhat surprisingly, credit research is being consumed as a substitute for equity research.  Just as the sell-side research arena is unrecognizable compared to this time last year, it will be similarly unrecognizable one year forward from what it is today. 

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