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...more its executives need to know how the future is likely to take shape. Energy companies, which have to make multibillion-dollar infrastructure investments before they can draw a penny's worth of fossil fuel out of the ground, have set the standard for security and political intelligence overseas. High-tech firms, which need to determine where their competitors are headed before beginning costly research and development, have led the way in what is known as competitive intelligence...
...high-tech industries boomed, CI grew with them. Biotech and pharmaceutical companies have become especially skilled. "Because of all the patent information that's available, we know well in advance what is in someone else's pipeline," says SCIP president Mark Little. "You can see some of these things coming a long time away...
HERRING & ASSOCIATES, based in Hartford, Conn., is built on Jan Herring's knowledge of the high-tech fields...
...chips in popular gadgets like digital cameras, cell phones, DVD players and those portable devices used to play downloaded music. Why bother? You don't need the recipe to enjoy the soup. But anyone struggling to understand what has been a remarkable turn in orders for semiconductors and the high-tech equipment needed to make them should take note: products such as cars and medical devices--from pacemakers to hearing aids--are taking up a lot of the slack left after the telecom bust. APPLIED DIGITAL SOLUTIONS' new VeriChip, for example, is injected under your skin and when scanned...
...some 200 Bush "Pioneers" each raised $100,000 in $1,000 increments from friends--and the soft-money ban would make it hard for Democrats to catch up. Already the Dems are scrambling to narrow the huge Republican lead in hard money. The Democrats' new headquarters will have high-tech computers to help reach more of the $2,000-range donors...