https://www.ft.com/content/a6a8876a-d9a2-11e6-944b-e7eb37a6aa8e Practitioners in the unregulated private intelligence industry describe a shadowy sector that stretches from dry political-risk analysis and due-diligence research to gathering dirt on competitors, manipulating journalists and, in its darkest corners, hacking, honey-trapping and intimidating. “It’s ex-spooks, ex-diplomats and ex-journalists who try to recreate systems to which they no longer have access,” says Antony Goldman, a long-serving business risk consultant based in London. While the stated purpose of state intelligence agencies is to inform the decisions of national leaders, the information that these private agencies acquire can be used however their paymasters see fit. The lesson of the corporate sphere is that those paymasters sometimes have ulterior motives. Investigators recall cases of work they thought had been commissioned to help weigh up a potential deal being used instead to smear a competitor. In extreme cases, investigators have suspected that their analysis of the corruption risks in a particular country has been used as a blueprint for bribery.
wall street journal 3dec2007 "raising your market IQ"
- see the big picture
- signs of a low market IQ
- a focus largely on current customers
- a tendency to base proprietary strategies on what is publicly known
- a reliance on qualitative research
- a pattern of taking a piecemeal approach
- foundation for boosting IQ
- market panel
- examine where you stand against competitors - overall and in detail
- see where the market is headed
- track your performance precisely
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