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Articles about strategic monitoring, competitive intelligence, sources and newsletters.
What is strategic watch?
What strategic watch is, how it differs from reading the news, and how it turns observation of the environment into better-informed decisions.
Technology watch vs competitive intelligence
Differences and common ground between technology watch and competitive intelligence: what each one observes, which sources it uses and when to combine them.
How to choose sources for your monitoring
Criteria and steps for selecting monitoring sources: relevance, reliability, frequency, coverage, access method and terms of use.
RSS, RIS and beyond: how information reaches your watch
Channels and formats for capturing watch sources: RSS and Atom, sitemaps, change detection, newsletters, RIS, CSV, BibTeX and open APIs.
How to evaluate an AI summary
Five criteria for evaluating AI-generated summaries: verifiable citations, faithfulness, coverage, acknowledging missing data and human review.
Regulatory monitoring: how to track the rules that affect you
How to organize regulatory monitoring: official gazettes and bulletins, regulators and bills, with a record sheet for logging each change.
Public tenders as a strategic signal
What public procurement reveals about demand, technology and competitors, and how to monitor it at each stage, from procurement plan to contract.
How to put together a useful newsletter
Steps to prepare a monitoring newsletter that gets read and used: reader, selection, item structure, frequency, review and continuous improvement.
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