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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Concepts, Issues and Hypotheses -- 1.1.Introduction: Governance and radar -- 1.1.1.Steering the ship -- 1.1.2.Corporate governance and strategic decision-making -- 1.1.3.The ship's radar (radio detection and ranging) -- 1.1.4.The organization's "radar", a tool...

Contents note continued: 1.4.2.Difference between strategic information and day-to-day management information -- 1.4.3.Two types of anticipative information -- 1.5.Weak signals -- 1.5.1.Definition of a weak signal -- 1.5.2.An example of weak signal as the trigger to a warning -- 1.5.3.Should we pref...

Contents note continued: 1.7.Interpreting, amplifying and exploiting weak signals to support strategic decision making -- 1.7.1.Need for collective intelligence (CI) for interpreting weak signals -- 1.7.2.CM: Justification and definition of the process -- 1.7.3.Definition of CI as the emergence of C...

Contents note continued: 1.9.6.Measurements: Performance indicators of the VASIC process -- 1.10.Conclusion -- 1.10.1.Results on completion of Chapter 1 -- ch. 2 Detecting, Recognizing and Corroborating a Weak Signal: Applications -- 2.1.Recognition of a weak signal: Examples -- 2.1.1.A lady heading...

Contents note continued: 3.1.The Roger case: Should we fear this new entrant to our industry? (the banking sector) -- 3.1.1.Issues for Roger as a company -- 3.1.2.Context -- 3.1.3.Codexi -- 3.1.4.Information to be used -- 3.1.5.Conduct of the collective work session -- 3.1.6.Results -- 3.2.The case...

Contents note continued: 3.3.1.The issue at hand -- 3.3.2.Fresh interest in weak signals -- 3.3.3.Background: Lack of cross-disciplinarity -- 3.3.4.Organization and conduct of the experiment -- 3.3.5.Targeting of a field of study -- 3.3.6.Selection of Danone as an agent -- 3.3.7.Conduct of the CCM e...

Contents note continued: 4.2.1.Preparation of the news briefs used in the CCM -- 4.2.2.The search for raw data: A substantial task -- 4.2.3.Extraction of news briefs: A time-consuming, delicate task -- 4.2.4.The Internet trap -- 4.3.COM2 valorization case: Automatic search for "news briefs" -- 4.3.1...

Contents note continued: 4.5.3.Semantics problems: Synonyms, polysemes and related matters -- 4.5.4.Software enabling "event searches" -- 4.5.5.Integration platform for commercially available software modules -- 4.6.Conclusion -- 4.6.1.Result.