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Trendspotting Column

Bruno's monthly intelligence column, Trendspotting, including:

My Top Ten predictions for 1999 for the New Economy

About Bruno Vanasse

Biography
Papers and essays by Bruno Vanasse, including:

Search Engines that matter on the Web

10 tips in setting up a business intelligence cell

What is business and competitive intelligence?

About This Site

This Web site's mission is to promote the understanding of the importance of human intellectual capital in the Network Economy and present what HumanSource Inc. can do to advance your organizations' competitive advantage. You can get more information about this site and HumanSource Inc. here:

• Corporate information about HumanSource Inc.
• Principles guiding the design of this Web Site
• You can access the French version of this page here, with a different content.

For Hire

Speeches, seminars,  training sessions, consulting, etc. offered through HumanSource Inc.'s services.

Outbound Pointers

Recommended business books of 1998 (you can also buy them here at a discount through Amazon.com).

Recommended List of HotLinks : 

• Search the Web
• Daily News and Information
• Reference Desk
• Business Research
• Human Resource Management
• Tech News, Computers & Internet
• Web - Design, Usability, Marketing, Etc.
• Health, Entertainment, Fun, Sports, Culture
• Shopping, Commerce & Travel

News

Current Trendspotting Column (February 1, 1999)

Basic Interviewing Techniques. In this article, we will give you a comprehensive, step by step, approach to interview human sources for eliciting pertinent information, including:

1. The right questions
2. Selecting your human sources
3. Planning first contact
4. First contact
5. The interview
6. Closing the meeting

Complete column here

Spotlight On the Web

A new survey made by PWC in conjunction with the World Economic Forum at Davos, shows that only 37% of European CEOs use the Internet at least once per week, even though 82% of the CEOs suveyed believe that "electronic business will have a strategic impact upon their firms."

• The 18% who don't believe in e-commerce may lack vision, may run a chain of barber shops or simply are just paying lip service to the Internet hype. However,
• is it better than the ignorance of the 45% who do understand that the world of business will be changing dramatically, but avoid a deeper understanding through personal experience?
• American CEOs use the Internet 50% more than European CEOs. Better, but enough to prepare them for the future? (February 15, 1999)

Jakob Nielsen at Devhead describes how you can test your competitors' website when designing your own. (February 5, 1999)

The Economist says that Web stocks are overvalued and that "the Internet will give consumers more power and make it hard even for firms with a large market share to raise their margins for long." I agree! Some Web vendors may even start selling below cost - See January 20, 1999's spotlight (February 2, 1999).

Economics of information goods. A good paper by Hal Varian. Better than Varian's celebrated book Information Rules. The paper is focused on problems related to running a website, while the book is very focused on issues related to running a technology company. (February 1, 1999)

List of previously Spotlighted items