Intelligence Subscriptions

 

A large corporation with thousands of employees hardly has any overview of how many subscriptions are being ordered and offered to staff. Subscription providers never care about consolidation. Neither do bothered employees if asked to openly acknowledge their subscriptions to market websites, news portals or periodicals.

Companies with over 50,000 employees oftentimes find huge money wasting when conducting studies about their staff’s subscription practices. Not only amount thousands of 99-dollar subscriptions to quite a steep sum. How many subscriptions are obsolete or being delivered after employees left their position but are still charged on department budgets unnoticed.

Corporate subscriptions can establish significant negotiation power and ensure the subscription content inclusion into the intelligence gathering and analysis process.

Sharing this practice with other departments can result in serious savings without major effort and in a mindset shift as well. Online subscriptions if fed into the intelligence stream provide the entire organization with up-to-date intelligence content. Many subscription services and intelligence providers might even offer RSS or other news feeds directly into an existing intelligence portal or depository.

Also, sales reps and other employees with frequent and firm contacts to industry professionals outside the own company should be able to ask for even more interesting subscriptions by customers and partners, to be added to the intelligence pool.