“When shoppers walk into the new Nordstrom store in West Hollywood, Calif., next month, they’ll find tailors altering suits and stylists doling out advice. They’ll be able to sip some wine or cold-pressed juice, and maybe even get a manicure as they choose a new wardrobe. What they won’t be able to do is take any clothes home.”

Ben Gilad Founder, Academy of Competitive Intelligence published the following article on LinkedIn. With the necessary recognition and citation I would like to share his article on the IBIS blog.

According to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the UK professional research and evidence market is a booming business and all indication are that it will continue to grow. It employs close to 73,000 highly-qualified people, generates up to £4.8bn a year of Gross Value Added (GVA), and makes a significant contribution to the UK.

Leader published businesss advice from the trenches. Competitiveness and knowledge of strong and weak points are recurrent aspects. For the full report click here: http://www.leader.co.za/article.aspx?s=1&f=1&a=6705

“Arguments are often why family-owned businesses don’t make it to the second generation."

"Stuttafords had a great business model." "They created a wonderful experience. But things have changed."

According to the Harvard Business Review’s Digital evolution Index depending on where we live, we continue to move at different speeds toward the digital planet. There are more mobile connections than people on the planet, and more people have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet.

According to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the researcher of the future would have the following key attributes:

Medical: Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer more accurately than humans can and drafts a care plan. Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. Computers will become more intelligent than humans.

Bloomberg published a list of the top jobs going into the future (to 2024). It ranked occupations by the percentage increase projected from 2014 to 2024. The new jobs and those that are expected to show the biggest employment growth are mainly in health care:

I love Babette’s writings. Her latest post on LinkedIn looks at the management of Competitive Intelligence and how to overcome certain challenges. She touches upon the reasons why some Competitive Units fail or fail to flourish and one of the top reasons is that they were never intelligence units to begin with; they were data collecting teams.