FUD… in Everday Transactions…

Part 2 in the series on FUD in the business world comes completely unplanned. I was planning on writing a piece on FUD in the Airlines industry but will save it for later with some interesting FUD examples at work in everyday life.
…earlier this morning I had an appointment to get 2 new tires [...]

FUD… At the “World Wide Leader”

As I wrote last week, I wanted to take a look at the use of FUD in the business world… I see it used all the time in my current role, both successfully and unsuccessfully. It was interesting as I thought of writing on this that I came across an article in Street [...]

3 Dots… All over the place…

This week on Morning Edition/NPR I keep hearing about protests/battles between Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Airbus etc over some recent awards given for some tankers/jets… Some of that is focused on FUD being spread about each of the bidders… In particular, FUD against firm’s that will use more foreign labor to build said tanker/jet… Firm A [...]

Competitive Intelligence… the FUD Series

One topic I tend to write about is Innovation. The other is Competitive Intelligence, or CI (I also refer to as Market Intelligence). I haven’t written on CI that much lately, but recently I’ve noticed a fair number of business events that are based in some level of CI, but likely breeze by [...]

Starbucks and their Competition…

You may have read today that Starbucks is slated to cut 600 jobs from their workforce in an effort to reduce costs and perhaps take a bit different direction strategy wise.  While the downturn at the world’s leading coffee retailer is not so much new as it is an indicator of adapting to your competition.  Like [...]