This will help the companies to build a counter-attack to defend from the competitors as well as to provide a 360 degree view of the competitive blind spots and provide early warnings on threats and opportunities.
Externalities are obtaining the information through illegal practices such as bribery, bugging or theft. This will compromise the private information of the target organization reducing the value for innovation. Decision to not get information does not help many people and it does not stop the current behavior of Industry Analysis Division thus damaging people.
Information assymetries exist in this industry as the seller of the information may not disclose all the sources of the analytical data. In our case study of McCaskey between Seleris management and Silicon 6; McCaskey’s boss has deceived the client about the true nature of information to which they have access. Seller may also provide information that is doctored to the buyer as this is not publicly available information as Malone has doctored the presentation slides and promised inside information from an ex-employee of the competitor without disclosing how long the source was separated from the target …show more content…
I have been assigned to lead the project Silicon 6 and feel that some of the senior leadership is putting pressure on me to do unethical tasks. I have been asked to lie to a person who is the source of valuable information for our client. I had paid him $4.8K to get some information and getting increasingly uncomfortable about lying to another person as it compromises my personal values of honesty and integrity. I feel that we are crossing the fine line into legal issues. Also I have seen my other colleagues paying a consulting fee of $5K for a business plan and spreadsheets of a target company’s upcoming new product information which is