Comments on: My father’s footsteps http://www.knowledgevaluechain.com/2007/08/03/my-fathers-footsteps/ Observations by Tim Powell Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:54:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Alan S Michaels http://www.knowledgevaluechain.com/2007/08/03/my-fathers-footsteps/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Alan S Michaels Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:44:14 +0000 http://www.tylergore.com/kvc/?p=17#comment-5 Tim, your comments are so true and most interesting because my father says the exact same thing to me. I’m a strategic planner by profession and for the past five years I’ve been building a global information database of over 9,000 industries. He really wants to understand what I do – but except for the word “information” - none of the details are grasped. In the corporate world, especially with the pace of activity and personal time constraints, few people have the time, interest and capability to learn something new – especially if the new information doesn’t easily build upon that person’s unique knowledgebase (and brain circuitry). This is a dilemma for many competitive intelligence professionals because it’s so much easier for the users of the information to just grab the results – the minimum amount of information and summary knowledge to make a decision - rather than think about each of the potential outcomes and plan for each scenario. I greatly applaud your focus on the possibilities – what might happen – because the alternative is to hit the automatic pilot button and to stop thinking altogether. Alan S, Michaels, Co-founder eCompetitors Tim, your comments are so true and most interesting because my father says the exact same thing to me. I’m a strategic planner by profession and for the past five years I’ve been building a global information database of over 9,000 industries. He really wants to understand what I do – but except for the word “information” – none of the details are grasped.

In the corporate world, especially with the pace of activity and personal time constraints, few people have the time, interest and capability to learn something new – especially if the new information doesn’t easily build upon that person’s unique knowledgebase (and brain circuitry). This is a dilemma for many competitive intelligence professionals because it’s so much easier for the users of the information to just grab the results – the minimum amount of information and summary knowledge to make a decision – rather than think about each of the potential outcomes and plan for each scenario.

I greatly applaud your focus on the possibilities – what might happen – because the alternative is to hit the automatic pilot button and to stop thinking altogether.

Alan S, Michaels, Co-founder
eCompetitors

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