So often the government intelligence types get the Hollywood treatment. Now corporate espionage gets the treatment. How do I know it’s corporate espionage and not competitive intelligence? Because CI, while being something I find a lot of fun, is so not sexy. A movie portraying Clive Owen using LinkedIn to identify primary research sources or Julie Roberts updating her corporate SWOT doesn’t sound like a blockbuster even to me.
It does look like a fun movie, though. I’m sure it will find its way onto my Netflix que.
There is no doubt in my mind that an actual movie about competitive intelligence would render audiences unconscious within ten minutes.
EVERY real profession should be dull to watch: medicine, accounting, etc. In my experience, “dramatic” is bad, since it usually involves incompetence or bad faith. Good CI should be a bit prosaic.