About this blog

This blog is your place to learn about competitive intelligence (CI), even, hey especially, if you are not a CI professional. I want this to be a place where you can learn about CI to enhance your career and improve your business.

Who am I? My name is John McGonagle, and I have been involved with CI for over 30 years. I have won major awards for CI, lectured in over a dozen countries, consulted for large and small enterprises, and, with my partner, Carolyn Vella, am the most published author on CI.

Our latest book, Proactive Intelligence: The Successful Executive’s Guide to Intelligence, is the first step in our effort to bring CI to everyone manager and executive, whether in marketing, sales, planning, law, accounting, or human resources. And we think it is a tool that can be used by all enterprises, from the very smallest law office to the largest business or corporation.

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John McGonagle, Managing Partner, The Helicon Group

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