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Line of Sight’s Competitive Intelligence System Now SCIP Endorsed
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Line of Sight Group is proud to announce that our Market-i Competitive Intelligence System has been recognized as a SCIP “Endorsed” product! Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) is the nonprofit Association representing the Integrated Intelligence industry internationally for over 32 years. What makes our system unique? Prior to launching Line of Sight Group…
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Cargill Uses Competitive Intelligence to Sharpen its Global Customer Experience Program
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One of the ways that Line of Sight Group keeps abreast of key marketplace trends is to attend industry association events. We recently attended an American Marketing Association (AMA) meeting that examined Cargill’s global customer experience model which is deployed to create consistently positive customer experiences despite a wide diversity of customers, products, geographies…
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Bob and Jerry on Competing in Healthcare
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For the past several weeks, we have been busily reading the myriad articles and forecasts on Healthcare (HC) trends for 2017. There was even an article about all of the other articles. With trends like a dramatically changing regulatory environment, continued momentum in HC consumerism, advances moving big data and analytics into cognitive computing…
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Clarity at the Intersection of Product Management/Development and Analytics
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Last Wednesday, Line of Sight Group attended the PDMA MN Chapter Meeting entitled, “The Intersection of Product Management/Development and Analytics.” There was networking, a tour of Optum including their version of the “Big Board” to monitor data and trends worldwide, and a panel moderated by Dave Mathias that included practitioners Kristen Womack, Jasmine Russell,…
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Telephone Switch Created to Bypass Love Connection
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Almon Strowger was one of two undertakers in a small town near Kansas City in the 1880’s. He had a good reputation and a nice business. Then, things started to change for the worse. He noticed that his business was dying off dramatically. His close reading of the local obituary notices revealed that he…
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How Stealth Technology Became a Silver Bullet
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Stealth technology provides the U.S. military with a dramatic competitive advantage in battle and as a deterrent to potential aggressors. Yet, its development nearly didn’t happen. The mathematical theories upon which stealth technology is based were actually developed by a Soviet scientist whose superiors were absolutely uninterested in his “crazy” theories and confusing equations. …
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How do election results change my company’s strategic, business, and product plan assumptions?
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Were your strategic, business, and product plan assumptions based on one candidate winning or did you have scenarios for either outcome? Did you have a scenario in which one party would control the Presidency, House of Representatives and the Senate? How dependent were your strategy decisions on U.S. trade policy, corporate and individual tax…
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OUR STRATEGY ISN’T WORKING
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Our strategy doesn’t seem to be working. What’s wrong? When company and business unit leaders or product and market managers share this question with me I answer with the following question: Is it your strategy, strategy execution or both? In most cases, they don’t know, so I take them down a path of a…
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Disruption and Innovation – Two Sides of the Same Coin
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Last week, Line of Sight Group attended the Product Development Management Association (PDMA) Annual Conference in Atlanta. Line of Sight Group was also an event sponsor. This is one of the ways that we keep a pulse on the opportunities and threats faced by the industries, companies and roles that we serve. We did…
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PDMA Attendees Well Represented on the Product Lifecycle Curve
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It was great to see and meet everyone at the international PDMA conference this week in Atlanta. Thanks to all who participated in our ‘research project’ to document and visualize where attendee’s products and/or companies reside on the product lifecycle curve. Overall, there was a broad and fairly even distribution of where attendees placed…
