12 janvier 2007
the tools used and the ways of research
Direction of the research
The aim of this blog is not only a site to introduce automobile industry in China or some situations of automobile in the world, it is a tool to refer to the automobile industry development in the world and give some directions or suggestions to the automobile's future.
All the articles that I chose can give us a full condition of automobile industry and show us some solutions to manager the saturated automobile market.
Because of continually increasing price of raw materials prices and gas, automobile industry is facing a very serious situation, more and more european and american industrial entreprises began to fix their attention on Asia market, especaily Chinese market.
Chinese market is a developping market in the world, western campanise are making their effort to enter this market, but at the same time, Chinese own automobile enterprises are making their best to reduce the gap from western enterprise and to produce their own brand. However, what is the result?
The Strategy
Concerning the research, this is based on the research on internet on the subject automobile and investment: research on automobile history, automobile development, new technology in automobile industry, famous brands of automobile, actual automobile situation in China, automobile market, etc; After the intensive research on the internet, I began to gather and pick up these informations, then publish them on the blog according to my classement, of course, all the informations came from my search based on my primary key.
Searching methods:
Once I have chosen the suject that I want to put in my blog, I must collect information and try to use different methods to adapt these subjects, each method has its carater and can result in different quality and quantitiy
The Key words
Automotive Industry/Automobile
Chinese market
Raw Material / Metal Price
Auto China/Chine
Car/Car Export Import
Chinese Auto Market /Growth/Forecast
Auto Forums
The tools
1/ Searching engins
yahoo
www.yahoo.com, www.yahoo.com.cn
sina
sohu
baidu
MSN
2/ Information Gartograph (Commercial Uses)
3D field
KartOO Technologies
KartOO is similar to Google, but displays results as a topological surface and graph. KartOO have undergone a transition from being a provider of services based on the their search and information cartography technology, to being mainly a software publisher specializing in "cartographic visualization."
http://www.kartoo.net/e/eng/index.html
Acetic
Text-based content analysis software--"a collection of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Market Research and Survey analysis tools." Not classical information cartography, but "Massive data analysis and information cartography (text mining)" is one of the Information Retrieval capabilities described on Acetic's Software Characteristics page. Their Zoom product (Semantic Search Engine) also offers to "chart textual databases or knowledge bases, corresponding to a technological or competing environment, human resources of a company, etc."
http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/
"specializes in Information CartographySM" Their product is a graph where the connections between nodes represent "flows of communication, regulations, money and/or resources" while the nodes represent the entities involved in the system, and to which information such as as maps and documents are attached. The "info-cartographer" can then explore for "opportunities, information gaps, bottlenecks and areas to target for problem solving." For example, for "mapping the complex terrain of conflict and developing sustainable paths to resolution" (Papadopoulos, 2004).
http://www.viewcraft.com/index.html
With these websites, I can refer to some photographe and do some correct analyse on Chinese Automarket and get the good conclusion even good reseach using searching engins.
3/ RSS
RSS is a method that uses XML to distribute web content on one web site, to many other web sites.
- RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication
- RSS allows you to syndicate your site content
- RSS defines an easy way to share and view headlines and content
- RSS files can be automatically updated
- RSS allows personalized views for different sites
- RSS is written in XML
Without RSS, users will have to check your site daily for new updates. This may be too time-consuming for many users. With an RSS feed (RSS is often called a News feed or RSS feed) they can check your site faster using an RSS aggregator (a site or program that gathers and sorts out RSS feeds).
Since RSS data is small and fast-loading, it can easily be used with services like cell phones or PDA's.
Web-rings with similar information can easily share data on their web sites to make them better and more useful.
RSS is useful for web sites that are updated frequently, like:
- News sites - Lists news with title, date and descriptions
- Companies - Lists news and new products
- Calendars - Lists upcoming events and important days
- Site changes - Lists changed pages or new pages
4/ Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
5/ Internal Newletters
6/ Video upload
Dailymotion
The tools above is my principal technique that I used for my blog, of course, I also use other methodes to complete my information, for example, consulting books, newletters, subscription of free magazins, etc... With viarous ways and methods, I make my effort to complete the auto information in this blog.
08 janvier 2007
Introduction of Competitive Intelligence
Competitive Intelligence is the process by which business enterprises gather and analyze information on their external competitive environment. There are several other definitions, all focusing on the same principle.
A second definition (from the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals) is "Competitive intelligence is a systematic and ethical program for gathering, analyzing, and managing Information about the external Business environment that can affect a company’s plans, decisions, and operations.
Key points of these definitions: 1) Competitive Intelligence is an ethical and legal business practice. (This is important as CI professionals emphasize that the discipline is not the same as industrial espionage which is both unethical and usually illegal). 2) The focus is on the external business environment. 3) There is a process involved in gathering information, converting it into intelligence and then utilizing this in business decision making. CI professionals emphasize that if the intelligence gathered is not usable (or actionable) then it is not intelligence.
02 janvier 2007
Introduction of Blog "Automobile Industry in China"
This blog is done by one student coming from Master 2 Global E-Business of University of Science and Technology of Lille I. I do several parts concerning automobile industry, such as actual situation, automobile market, business strategy of investment in the filed of automobile, etc.
This work is done in the field of Mr Pinte's course "Competitive Intelligence".