Competitive Knowledge Announces the Creation of the World's First ``Competitor to Competitor'' Portal.Business Editors/Internet Writers LOS LOS Length of stay, see there ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1999 Online Communities That Enable Secured Knowledge-Based Performance Management, Collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. and Decision Making Competitive Knowledge Inc. (CKI CKI Circle K International (collegiate services) CKI Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd (Hong Kong) CKI Chair-Keyboard Interface CKI Crypt Key Instant ) Has Successfully Constructed the First-ever Online Vehicle for Collaborative Competition -- Bridging the Gap Between the Knowledge Residing Inside and Outside Organizations Competitive Knowledge Inc. (CKI) announced the world's first knowledge-based "Competitor to Competitor" (C2C (Client to Client) An earlier term for peer-to-peer (P2P), in which one user communicates with another user without going through a server in between. See peer-to-peer. ) portal. The CKI Virtual Communities will be the definitive source for aggregated industry-specific knowledge, encouraging organizations to share information with their value-chain partners and, more importantly, with their peers. Business leaders and CKI information experts will identify industry-specific knowledge; quantitative data will be aggregated by CKI, allowing all participants to evaluate their organization's relative performance. "This is the dawn of the Collaborative Competition Era," said Saeed Mohasseb, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Competitive Knowledge. "Competitors can now engage in collaborative efforts to achieve maximum operating efficiency without divulging sensitive information." Competitive Knowledge will collaborate with business to consumer (B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. ) Internet organizations Internet organizations, or organizations that play a key role in the evolution of the Internet by developing recommendations or standards and addressing major issues include:
B2B - business to business ) entities, act as the trusted intermediary Intermediary See: Financial intermediary intermediary See financial intermediary. between competitors, and serve industry associations and experts to ensure that each and every community member achieves its potential for competitiveness. The CKI Virtual Communities are currently available to a targeted number of industries, including apparel and justice. The Apparel Community supports manufacturers, distributors and retailers in their relentless search for competitive advantage through operational efficiencies, while the Justice Community, built specifically for the legal/justice audience, enables interaction between justice agencies and partners, and also serves as the communication point between government agencies and their constituents. "We believe that knowledge is the true return on information technology," explained Mohasseb. "We have created the instrument that will help our community members realize the optimum return on their technology investments." Mohasseb added: "CKI will significantly improve strategic and operational decisions, and increase an organization's individual competitiveness, by establishing unobtrusive and secured channels of communication for sharing knowledge with competitors, supply chain partners, and corporate citizens -- without any infrastructure investments." Competitive Knowledge Inc. (CKI) is constructing the global hub for "competitive knowledge," one virtual business community at a time, by delivering timely, relevant, industry-specific, secured, and decision-ready competitive knowledge. Competitive Knowledge is the C2C portal to good decisions. Learn more at www.Competitive-Knowledge.com. |
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