Kieran Michael’s Random Thoughts on Technology & Marketing

I’ve been using a lot of mind mapping tools to develop Competitive Intelligence knowledge taxonomies lately, and I thought it might be fun to make a taxonomy of CI as a discipline. Attached here is my first, down and very dirty first pass, one that took all of 15 minutes, so don’t expect to be blown away by my penetrating insight

Taxonomy of Competive Intelligence

I developed this mindmap with input from colleagues on the Ning competitive intelligence community in this thread including Alan S. Michaels and Babette Bensoussan.  Also, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Jesper Martell and Daniel Thomasson at Comintell who taught me a great deal about the practical use of mind maps.

I created this map with the great SaaS app, MindMeister, but I’ve also been using a more robust commercial app called MindJet Mindmanager for actual client engagements.

The public URL for this is: http://www.mindmeister.com/18753652?password=editme with the oh-so-secure password being, “editme.” Feel free to mash/mix this as/if you like.

Personally, I think it would go well with a deep dub remix of Chaka Khan’s, “I Feel for You.”