Crayon
MARCH 23, 2021
As the folks here at Crayon combed through the results of our 2021 State of Competitive Intelligence Report , an exciting theme jumped out at us: Competitive intelligence (CI) programs are growing, they’re growing fast, and they’re more important to their organizations than ever before. It was only a year ago that 58% of businesses told us they had CI teams of two or more dedicated professionals.
ArchIntel
MARCH 23, 2021
ArchIntel™ -. Some believe that the open-source intelligence process has existed for too long in the shadow of more glamorous forms of intelligence gathering such as the kind of espionage depicted in action novels and films. A blog entry in Security Boulevard, however, said that OSINT may finally be getting the recognition it deserves. Security blogger Johnathan Nelson cited a report released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies Technology and Intelligence Task Force in February
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Weidert Group
MARCH 23, 2021
At Weidert Group, we don’t just maximize the power of inbound marketing with our clients, we fully use it ourselves. Similarly, we don’t just talk about the power of growth-driven design (GDD), we use it on our own website. This blog post — which is more like a mini-case study — dives into a little problem we had with our website speed and explains how we fixed it using the process of growth-driven design.
ArchIntel
MARCH 23, 2021
ArchIntel™ -. Daniel Ben-Chitrit , a senior product manager at Authentic8 , said in a recent article that while humans are still essential in collecting open-source intelligence data, organizations must also invest in automating their OSINT collection process. In the article published by Security Boulevard, Ben-Chitrit noted that the first part of the OSINT investigative process is data collection.
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Netbasequid
MARCH 23, 2021
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ArchIntel
MARCH 23, 2021
ArchIntel™ -. “The retail automation market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 15.41% over the forecast period (2021-2026).” — Research and Markets. Much has been said about the capabilities of artificial intelligence but few people ever really wonder where those capabilities originate. A recent post by blogger Wendy Toscano tries to demystify the smart machine by explaining that AI is nothing more or less than what its human programmers have put into it.
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ArchIntel
MARCH 23, 2021
ArchIntel™ -. The question of whether smart machines will eventually replace human workers in all manners of production goes a long way back. An article co-written by organizational behavioralist David De Cremer and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov said that this will probably not be the case. The authors said that the real question to ask is how can human intelligence work with artificial intelligence to produce augmented intelligence?
Moz
MARCH 23, 2021
Posted by Brie-E-Anderson Website analytics can tell us a lot about our audience and how they interact with our site. Oftentimes, we rely heavily on these analytics for reporting. But what if I told you that Google Analytics provides data that can be used as a strategy tool? In this post, we are going to quickly look at three very specific, very actionable Google Analytics views for uncovering SEO opportunities.
ArchIntel
MARCH 23, 2021
ArchIntel™ -. Axon Enterprise is currently recruiting a senior marketing coordinator of competitive intelligence to be based in the company’s Scottsdale, Arizona, headquarters. In its help wanted notice on LinkedIn, the firm said it is looking for an individual who has a deep familiarity with its products and who likes to outsmart the competition.
Pathmatics
MARCH 23, 2021
How the biggest brands advertise online provides a lot of insight. Whether you’re a small, mid-size, or big business, gaining business intelligence about others can help drive your own digital marketing success. Typically though, to access this kind of data you’d either need to be an employee with high-level marketing clearance, a member of their C-Suite, or a super spy.
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Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.
ArchIntel
MARCH 23, 2021
ArchIntel™ -. Sysco Corporation is seeking to hire a senior manager of customer and competitive intelligence for assignment in its U.S. headquarters in Houston, Texas. The company summed up the role as being responsible for providing critical insights on customers and competitors alike in order enable top management to make informed strategic decisions.
Happy Market
MARCH 23, 2021
In this episode, we’ll be providing tips on how to navigate a successful career in market research. Stay tuned for the following weeks to hear the individual episodes of our referenced guests. Referenced Guests: Nadia Masri, serial entrepreneur, founder of Perksy, and on Forbes 30 under 30 list LinkedIn: [link] [link] [link]. Whitney Dunlap-Fowler, founder of Insights in Color LinkedIn: [link] [link] [link] [link].
Elegant BI
MARCH 23, 2021
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Evalueserve
MARCH 23, 2021
EVS: Thank you for speaking with us today, Vishal. Before we get into our questions, could you tell us about your background and what you are currently working on? Vishal: I lead the US insights and advisory practice across verticals. My team and I solve strategy, innovation, marketing, and supply chain problems for Fortune 1000 clients in the US. I personally lead advisory workshops for clients to enable process transformations in their functions.
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Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission
Dataversity
MARCH 23, 2021
Click here to learn more about Dustin Oxborrow. Artificial intelligence (AI) drives a growing share of decisions that affect every aspect of our lives, from where to take a vacation to health care recommendations that could affect our life expectancy. As AI’s influence grows, market research firm IDC expects spending on it to reach $98 billion in 2023, […].
Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa–( BUSINESS WIRE )–FBL Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: FFG) (“FBL Financial Group” or “the Company”) today sent a letter to shareholders urging them to vote “ FOR ” the previously announced definitive agreement under which Farm Bureau Property & Casualty Insurance Company (“FBPCIC”) will acquire all of the outstanding shares of FBL Financial Group Class A and Class B common stock, excluding shares owned by FBPCIC and the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (“IFBF”), for
ArchIntel
MARCH 23, 2021
ArchIntel™ -. Open-source intelligence gathering is widely understood to be a series of expeditions into cyberspace with the objective of accumulating information on a certain subject matter. It is not seen as a single activity but rather a chain of focused activities. A recent article on OSINT Me, however, introduces online sleuths and other curious minds to OSINT Dojo, an online platform dedicated to the “gamified” teaching of the art of mining OSINT.
Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Protective Life Corporation (“Protective”), a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc. (TSE:8750, “Dai-ichi”), will host a Company Update webcast on March 31, 2021, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. CDT. Company leaders will provide information about Protective’s 2020 financial results, current business strategy and 2021 outlook.
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Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
CLEARWATER, Fla. , March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — AmeriLife Group, LLC (“AmeriLife”), a national leader in developing, marketing, and distributing annuity, life, health insurance and retirement planning solutions, has hired Galya Appell as senior vice president of Strategy and Innovation. In this role, Appell will lead the design, planning, execution, and integration of AmeriLife’s business strategies.
Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. , March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The results of DALBAR ‘s annual Trends and Best Practices in Investor Statements study are in, and BNY Mellon’s Pershing, BlackRock, Merrill and AIG all landed in the top spot within their respective lines of business. Pershing’s brokerage statement topped the list for the third consecutive year, achieving the highest brokerage statement score of all time. “We are honored to receive this recognition, acknowledg
Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
CLEARWATER, Fla. , March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — AmeriLife Group, LLC (“AmeriLife”), a national leader in developing, marketing, and distributing annuity, life, and health insurance solutions, has acquired Insurance 360 , an insurance provider that offers term life, universal life, disability income, long-term care, and survivorship insurance policies from major insurance carriers. . “Under President Scott Harper’s direction, Insurance 360 has become one of t
Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
MILWAUKEE , March 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Northwestern Mutual announced today that nine financial advisors affiliated with Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company have been named to the 2021 Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors ranking. “In an unprecedented year, our advisors and their teams remained deeply committed to providing comprehensive financial security to individuals and families,” said Aditi Javeri Gokhale, chief commercial officer and president of i
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Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.
Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
A team of state insurance legislators wants to help people prove their signatures and documents are real without making in-person visits to notaries. The lawmakers, members of the National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), are working on a draft of a Remote Notarization Model Act. NCOIL included the draft model in a packet of materials for the group’s upcoming spring meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.
Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
It’s a relatively new thing in America that a large contingent of people publicly distrust those who create wealth. Yet, what started with Occupy Wall Street has culminated in a pitched battle where Wall Street, represented by hedge funds shorting GameStop, was roundly defeated by Main Street, represented by day traders taking the long position. These two watershed moments illustrate everything that is wrong in the investment world today: that two groups sharing the same interest, namely increas
Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
U.S. consumers got more individual life insurance for less money in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to new insurer survey results from LIMRA. LIMRA found that insurers sold 2% more individual life policies in the latest quarter than in the year-earlier quarter. The total amount of coverage purchased increased 1%, but total new annualized premiums fell 8%.
Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
DALLAS , March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Integrity Marketing Group, LLC (“Integrity”), the nation’s largest independent distributor of life and health insurance products, today announced it has acquired MERIT Insurance Services (“MERIT”), a leading brokerage general agency (“BGA”) based in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
. As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, women investors are more concerned about their finances and feel less prepared than they’ve been in years. Nearly three in four women with investable assets of $100,000 or more said the pandemic has negatively impacted their ability to retire. Ann Bair and Lori Hall present the findings from Nationwide’s sixth annual Advisor Authority study, powered by the Nationwide Retirement Institute®, reflecting the responses of more than 2,500 individual investors, adv
Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
While fully underwritten policies may net better deals, consumers seem to like simplified issue life insurance. While already underway prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, many life insurance policies are now underwritten through “simplified” or “streamlined” processes, which are less reliant on physical data (e.g., blood, urine, examination) and more reliant on readily available datasets (e.g., medical, financial, personal).
Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
Principal Financial Group Inc. may come out of its strategic review with less life and annuity business on its books but with its current product strategy largely intact. Ryan Krueger, a securities analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW), talked about that possibility in a recent life and annuity market commentary. KBW is part of Stifel Financial Corp.
Wink Intel
MARCH 23, 2021
While total life insurance new annualized premium fell 3% in 2020, the number of policies sold in 2020 increased 2% for the year, driven by strong whole life and term sales, according to LIMRA’s U.S. Individual Retail Life Insurance Sales Survey. “In 2019, fourth quarter premium jumped 15% ahead of the mandatory adoption of the 2017 CSO tables and principle-based reserving that would be implemented on Jan. 1,” said Elaine Tumicki, corporate vice president and director of LIMRA’s Insurance
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In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.
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