Category: Commercial Intelligence

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Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Mats Bjore

Alpha A-D, Commercial Intelligence
Mats Bjore
Mats Bjore

Mats Bjore is unique in many ways.  He is one of just two Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) pioneers recognized with Royal Awards for his accomplishment in creating the Swedish Military Long-Range Reconnaissance OSINT network.  He has gone on to be a successful manager for knowledgement (McKinsey), and advisor to Factiva, and CEO and founder of two companies, INFOSHERE AB and SILOBREAKER AB, as well as a third company-software, Able-to-Act.

From 1992 onwards, he has been one of a dozen people nurturing OSINT, a hybrid discipline now established in over 90 countries around the world.

We credit him with coining the term “commercial intelligence” to provide for 360 degree intelligence that embraces “true cost” accounting as well as intangible valuations that “competitive intelligence” does not appreciate.

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Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Leonard Fuld

Alpha E-H, Commercial Intelligence
Leonard Fuld
Leonard Fuld

We regard Leonard Fuld as “the original” pioneer for competitive intel

Leonard Fuld is a pioneer in the field of competitive intelligence. He has created many of the intelligence-gathering techniques currently used by corporations around the globe. Mr. Fuld's company, Fuld & Company, founded in 1979, specializes in providing business intelligence to corporations to improve their decision-making for strategy, operations and tactical applications.

Mr. Fuld is a widely published author. In addition to his latest book, The Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence (Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc., 2006), and The New Competitor Intelligence (Wiley, 1995), Fuld has previously published Competitor Intelligence: How to Get It – How to Use It (Wiley, 1985) and Monitoring the Competition: Find Out What's Really Going On Over There (Wiley, 1988).

Amazon Page
Amazon Page
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Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Ben Gilad

Alpha E-H, Commercial Intelligence
Ben Gilad
Ben Gilad

Dr. Ben Gilad, considered a leading developer of competitive intelligence (CI) theory and practice in the US, is a former Associate Professor of Strategy at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Management. Gilad’s first CI books, The Business Intelligence System (1988, AMACOM, co-authored) and Business Blindspots (1994, US: Probus/Irwin; 1998, UK: Infonortics), paved the way for the CI evolution in US corporations, many of which emulated the basic principles of Gilad’s CI process model. He is the co-editor of the definitive analysis book, The Art and Science of Business Intelligence Analysis (1996, JAI Press), reprinted and updated with Jan Herring in 2008.

In 2004 Gilad published his breakthrough book, Early Warning (AMACOM, 2004), which defines for the first time a new role and scope for CI practitioners based on his innovative work with two strategic early warning systems in two leading global corporations. For this new risk management perspective of CI, CI Magazine labeled him “our CI guru”. The Society of Competitive Professionals honored him with its highest Meritorious award in 1996.

Early Warning
Early Warning
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Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Jan Herring

Alpha E-H, Commercial Intelligence
Jan Herring
Jan Herring

Jan Herring is President of Herring & Associates LLC, a management consultancy, specializing in intelligence matters, and a fouinding principal at the Academy of Competitive Intelligence, the gold standard for commercial intelligence training at all levels, entry, mid-career, and capstone.

He is unique in the world of commercial intelligence for having been the first modern pioneer and champion in the U.S. Intelligence Community for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).  As the very first person ever to hold the office of National Intelligence Officer for Science & Technology (NIO S&T), he attempted in the early 1980's to repair the severe deficiency in access to open sources in all languages.  His work laid the foundation for work by others that will eventually result in a national Open Source Agency fully independent of but support of the secret world.

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Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Ran Hock

Alpha E-H, Commercial Intelligence
Ran Hock
Ran Hock

PLATINUM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Dr. Ran Hock

Dr. Ran Hock has done more than any single individual to educate both government and private sector parties with respect to the value of the deep web.  He has single-handedly trained hundreds of individuals in the nuances of this major new intelligence resource base.  Emphasizing individual analytic skills and common sense rather than arcane expensive and generally unproductive technologies, he represents the intersection of integrity, intelligence, and intuition in the service of all legitimate governments and organizations.

2009 Handbook Online for Internet Tools and Resources for Creating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) by Dr. Ran Hock, Chief Training Officer, Online Strategies, Inc.

2003 Hock (US) The Open-ness of the Open Internet

2002 Hock (US) The World of Information: Content, Content, and Content

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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Mister Jalopy

Alpha I-L, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence

Mister Jalopy
Mister Jalopy

Mister Jalopy is a fearlessly experimental welder, woodworker, bicycle mechanic, writer, photographer, embroiderer, artist, electronics troubleshooter, teacher, furniture rebuilder, garage saler, activist, wheeler dealer, street racer, blogger, editor, auto mechanic, speaker, fabricator, builder, large appliance repairman, columnist, designer and entrepreneur.

Empowering consumers to be able to repair, rebuild, reuse and reinvent the products they invest in is at the core of Mr. J’s philosophy. As part of the Maker’s Bill of Rights article in Make: Magazine, Jalopy declared, “if you can’t open it, you don’t own it” Asserting that an individual should be able to open, repair and modify the products that they buy, the Maker’s Bill of Rights gave a clear voice to the Maker Movement’s frustration with increasingly disposable products that lock out consumers.

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