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Articles, practical guides, a newsletter template and a glossary. Our own material, designed to be used.
Guides
Three short guides: defining a channel, evaluating a source and reviewing your monitoring every week.
Newsletter template
The structure of a monitoring newsletter, ready to copy or download.
Glossary
The terms of strategic monitoring, explained plainly.
Public newsletter
A sample newsletter with its cited sources, and the subscription.
Blog
See all articles- 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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