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...gadgets are sometimes less expensive than those of Japanese or Finnish competitors--but by no means inferior. Which is pretty clear if you've tried to order an I300, the Palm-powered PDA that's really a phone (sorry, sold out), or if you feel embarrassed to answer your Motorola StarTAC in public because it's so...yesteryear...
...modern era, competitive intelligence got a high-profile boost in 1983, when MOTOROLA CEO Robert Galvin hired CIA veteran Jan Herring, who is now a consultant and CI trainer based in Hartford, Conn. Herring built a CI department that set a new standard in two critical ways. First, it was driven by the CEO himself. CI professionals agree that intelligence is only as good as the executives who use it. Unless the CEO understands the importance of intelligence as well as its limitations, the best efforts of an analyst will be worthless. Second, Herring focused on developing internal sources...
...spend the better part of the next decade duking it out for control of this $91 billion industry. As Microsoft gets set to muscle in on Nokia's turf, the Finnish giant is selling its own software deal with a rival operating system. Other cell-phone manufacturers like Motorola and Qualcomm are also releasing their blueprints. Even companies like HP, whose latest Journada handheld computer has a built-in smart phone, are getting in on the act. "Clearly, everyone wants a piece of everyone else's pie," says Sarah Kim, a mobile-communications analyst for the Yankee Group. "There...
...marketing and promotional expertise shows. At the beginning of the season, CBA officials lost a $4.2 million marquee sponsorship and promotion contract when its would-be partner, Y.C. Advertising, a media company owned by Hong Kong's Tom.com, withdrew only a month before the season was to begin. Motorola stepped in as the league's title sponsor, but the hastily arranged deal netted the CBA just $1.8 million, less than half of what it might have earned...
Telecommunications companies such as Motorola, which is China's largest foreign investor, are wiring the nation--rather, making it wireless. Last July, the number of Chinese mobile subscribers surpassed the U.S.'s lead, and construction continues on state-of-the-art digital wireless networks. According to the WTO terms, foreign companies will be able to control 49% of communications networks within three years in certain regions...