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... writing are primarily exploratory; they are intended to be built upon as the qualitative methods of intelligence and other business disciplines become increasingly linked These efforts are not intended ... in business on the one hand while drawing upon its distinctiveness on the other The book begins with a cluster of introductory chapters that point to the parallels between competitive intelligence ... basis Members of the marketing profession have long been interested in understanding the strategies, capabilities, and options of their rivals Gaining the insight required to so is the essence of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... who, in the process of joining into the action, intuitively learns what is going on and why certain decisions are made Marketing ethnographers are able to unravel the true mainsprings underlying ... embrace intuition and subjective judgment In their rebellion against the scientific method in marketing, qualitative researchers within business have, in their own way, embraced reasoning that ... competitive intelligence and marketing research have diverged in many ways in the last 30 years, both fields are increasingly focusing upon the embrace of qualitative research methods The qualitative...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... distorted, other people could still understand what was being said because the underlying structure of the language exists in the minds of both the speaker and the listener The existence of these linguistic ... research orientations have their uses Nonetheless, the Bagozzi approach can inhibit research where non-rigorous information is important, since it hinders the investigation of the inner workings ... exist and many of them have become institutionalized within the business world Initially, certain techniques (such as the focus group method) justified themselves in terms of their being quick and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... of intelligence is using weak, compromised, and/ or incomplete data in order to infer useful information The process of drawing inferences from diverse scraps of information and weaving them into ... investigation Developing these skills and knowledge is costly and time consuming And yet, this is the only way in which professionalism can be developed in the intelligence analyst Grooming intelligence ... experience and the judgment it creates Based in part upon the insights of McDowell and Meehan, the conference members met in groups to discuss the problems facing the field The responses include: The...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... take into account both the time frame and the specific needs of the client Gathering Data The analyst must gather data as required and/ or coordinate the research efforts of others Competitive intelligence ... possess an interest in market intelligence Thus, McGonagle and Vella continue by observing that The primary (and often the only) customer of market intelligence is the marketing department and the ... CONCEPT Increasingly, the marketing function has been elevated from a subordinate to a dominant position This book, in line with these trends, views marketing as the pivotal strategic discipline and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... accompanied the industrial revolution demanded a rethinking of the way in which people related to society and to each other The humanities played a major role in the process of reexamining the world and ... engineering is a technical activity It involves gaining examples of a particular product and then dismantling them in order to better understand how they were made and/ or how they operate Having ... ethnography, informants (the subjects being investigated) are often asked for their opinions and the responses they provide are entered into the pool of evidence that is used by the researcher to interpret...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... the research centered upon the individual or the distinctiveness of the circumscribed group.1 There exist many situations both in marketing research and in competitive intelligence where examining ... doing so, the researcher can gain a better understanding of the culture and the social milieu in which decisions and responses take place Doing so closely parallels the interests and the techniques ... Cultures, in turn, emphasize and encourage certain personality types and patterns of response By understanding the in uences that impact the culture and its members, the future responses of both the individual...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... general information By carefully scanning the kinds of topics that are seriously discussed, the analyst can “get into the mind” of the communicator By combining the resulting insights with other ... information and they must infer probable patterns of response using whatever information is available Increasingly rigid legal and ethical guidelines are limiting the tools that competitive intelligence ... of the culture/organization being studied After the war, the innovative scholars involved in this project returned to their universities and the methods they had developed were abandoned by the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... debates the point Mechanics are professionals who are hired, in large part, because of their skill and judgment in their area of specialization Respecting their opinions is usually in the best interest ... be skilled at justifying their methods and in asserting that they, not their clients, should determine the most appropriate ways of analyzing and attacking a problem Justifying qualitative methods ... strange and exotic activity that is destined to remain at the fringes of business and business research Can Analysts Integrate the Full Range of Qualitative Methods into an Analysis? The World...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... people to maintain their interests throughout their lives, if they join the private sector, they need to mentally adjust themselves and to place these interests in a proper perspective There have ... achieve in ways that are meaningful to them They typically seek to individually work and rework ideas in order to explain how and why people act in the way they Futhermore, humanists often pit themselves ... holistic view of, 83 and humanities, 137–56 hypothesis forging and, 84 and insight, 19–20 and intuition, 19–20 and literary criticism, 33 and marketing concept, 94–95 and marketing research, 21–45...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... HRIRs and the corresponding HRTFs originates from diffraction, shading and resonances on the head and on the pinnae [14] Also reflections and diffractions of the sound from the torso in uence the ... structure of the head which are not present in the head model have a strong in uence In the following, the ITDs and ILDs obtained from the measurements are examined in more detail 3.3.1 ILD The ILDs ... compared to the model ILD This effect is not present in the ILDs between the hearing aids and therefore must originate from the pinnae 3.3.2 ITD The ITDs between the in- ear microphones and a microphone...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... find out the critical uncertainties for decision-making • Integrating existing databases and studies, studying their applicability to other countries, and combining them with chemical contaminant ... significant indoor causes for these health impacts, evaluating the existing and optional building and housing-related policies for controlling them • Addressing in particular how indoor air quality ... Providing a framework for coordinating results, their dissemination, producing an inventory of all ongoing research and the prompt identification of research priorities and needs ENVIE Coordination...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20

... by local researchers, but little research on injuries emerges from low- and middle income countries Researchers in these countries need support and collaboration from their peers in industrialized ... to injuries occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) [3] Injuries from road traffic accidents, interpersonal violence, and war are among the leading causes of death in low- and middle-income ... mortality rates are above 70% in both rural Europe and LMIC [12,13] Is it possible to strengthen the chain of survival even in the initial links? Yes, and several papers in fact indicate this [1416] A...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... and those used by the researchers In other words, individuals are assumed to be using the same attribute levels that the researcher is using in making their decisions, whether these are objective ... used in much of the literature and is the focus of this thesis Therefore, we focus on the Haab and Hicks and IAL approach and not examine the von Haefen model We choose the IAL model to analyze the ... fishing demand in Maine and defined choice sets using spatial boundaries Choice sets available to an individual included 12 randomly drawn sites within the range of 0.8 hours from the individual’s...

Ngày tải lên: 22/05/2016, 11:25

... Administration at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands She is doing PhD research at Leiden University on the transposition of European directives in the Netherlands Other research interests include ... necessitates bringing the two major strands of research on the European Union together, both the European integration (bottom-up) and the Europeanization of the member states (top-down) perspectives There ... at the EU level, fostered for example by a strengthening of the European Parliament or increasing the transparency of the decision-making within the Council of Ministers, can the kind of European...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 06:22

... helicopters and vehicles by abrading rotor blades in the former and clogging air filters in the latter Sand is also harmful to the turbine blades in tank engines, causing them to thin and eventually ... inspection and repair (STIR) In addition to performing such routine maintenance tasks as inspecting parts to determine whether they need replacing, testing and adjusting controls, and repairing ... has left the theater The Army, however, has seven times more equipment in the theater than the Marine Corps has and in the past has required more than twice the reset funding Furthermore, the Army...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 12:20

... Supposing adequate tools are available, when exactly shall we apply them? In other words, at what point in time does the sonnet begin in the poet’s mind, or the symphony in the composer’s brain? And ... of the wine on the palate, and the result is an enlarged and increasingly discriminating public for wine (which in turn gives rise to improved standards in production) And there is a further respect ... Assimilation and accommodation: matching between elements of music and cognitive representation in the mind Groupings in vision (the source domain) and transposition in music perception (the target domain)...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:04

... occludens-domain-containing proteins such as syntenin, Ga-interacting protein (GAIP)-interacting C-terminus ⁄ synectin and calcium ⁄ calmodulin-associated serine kinase, since the C2 region contains a ... catalytic domain with a zinc-binding site (Zn, HEXXHXXGXXH) and a conserved methionine (Met-turn) supporting the catalytic zinc Interaction between cysteine–zinc maintains proMMPs in an inactive state ... syndecans, and are endopeptidases belonging to the family of metzincins (zinc endopeptidases) which contain three major multigene families: seralysins, astacins and a disintegrin and metalloproteinase...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... Rotterdam, the coordinating institution of the Erasmus Mundus consortium, first The timing of the other site visits was determined by practical considerations During the assessment of the programme the ... vice-rector and/ or other central function) of the institution The main purpose of the site visits was to view the EMLE programme from different angles and thus gain an understanding of the consortium ... students get acquainted with the methods of scientific research in Law and Economics The yearly mid-term meeting of most of the professors and all of the students involved in the programme is...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... average intercorrelation among all the items in an in nitely large domain (Nunnally, 1978) The more highly intercorrelated the items in the domain, the more they share in the common core, the greater ... knows the reliability of the original test, called the unit test, and the number of items in that test Most clinicians are interested in increasing test reliability by lengthening a test Other clinicians ... in clinical and counseling psychology Each of these chapters includes an illustration and analysis of a study, explaining the important decision points encountered by the researcher and how the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 04:20