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Far more than most people realize............................................
Almost every Fortune 500 company has a "competitive intelligence" unit to keep track of what its rivals are up to. Many of them are headed by ex-CIA or ex-FBI officials. While most corporations make every effort not to violate the law, there is a surprising number that engage in illicit, or at least gray-area, activities. Sometimes they hire "security agencies" or private-investigative firms to get secret information out of a competitor while ensuring "plausible deniability."
American companies lose an estimated fifty to one hundred billion dollars a year in the theft of trade secrets. According to the FBI, in the last five years, at least twenty foreign nations have tried to penetrate high-tech companies in Silicon Valley.
The techniques used to steal documents, computer files, disks, or plans range from the low-tech - Dumpster-diving, or rummaging through trash - to the more sophisticated, including the use of laser microphones to listen in on indoor conversations from hundreds of yards away via sound vibrations on a building's windows. When a CEO or other top company official travels, it's not unheard of for his hotel room to be bugged.
POSSIBLY THE BEST BOOK ON BUSINESS STRATEGY EVER WRITTEN!
http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar.htm
IF YOU UNDERSTAND YOURSELF, YOUR COMPETITION AND YOUR CUSTOMER AND STAY ON TOP OF YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS.. YOU WILL..................................................................................................................
THE USE OF SPIES...MARKETING INTELLEGENCE GATHERING
1) Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports; (4) Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of warfare; (5) If a secret piece of news is divulged by a spy before the time is ripe, he must be put to death together with the man to whom the secret was told.Big electronic brother is watching!
Almost every Fortune 500 company has a "competitive intelligence" unit to keep track of what its rivals are up to. Many of them are headed by ex-CIA or ex-FBI officials. While most corporations make every effort not to violate the law, there is a surprising number that engage in illicit, or at least gray-area, activities. Sometimes they hire "security agencies" or private-investigative firms to get secret information out of a competitor while ensuring "plausible deniability."
American companies lose an estimated fifty to one hundred billion dollars a year in the theft of trade secrets. According to the FBI, in the last five years, at least twenty foreign nations have tried to penetrate high-tech companies in Silicon Valley.
The techniques used to steal documents, computer files, disks, or plans range from the low-tech - Dumpster-diving, or rummaging through trash - to the more sophisticated, including the use of laser microphones to listen in on indoor conversations from hundreds of yards away via sound vibrations on a building's windows. When a CEO or other top company official travels, it's not unheard of for his hotel room to be bugged.
POSSIBLY THE BEST BOOK ON BUSINESS STRATEGY EVER WRITTEN!
http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar.htm
IF YOU UNDERSTAND YOURSELF, YOUR COMPETITION AND YOUR CUSTOMER AND STAY ON TOP OF YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS.. YOU WILL..................................................................................................................
THE USE OF SPIES...MARKETING INTELLEGENCE GATHERING
1) Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports; (4) Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of warfare; (5) If a secret piece of news is divulged by a spy before the time is ripe, he must be put to death together with the man to whom the secret was told.Big electronic brother is watching!