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Q 1 As a former Intelligence Officer, now retired and running your own Corporate Intelligence firm called INFOCORP PVT. LTD., you are not particularly surprised at the good corporate demand for your services. You select a case where one corporate is very keen to know what are the exact ‘reasons for the success’ of their rival, a large Group of Industries involved in Sugar Mills, Distilleries, Education; Refinery machinery and Thermal Power. The challenge is all the more severe since the Regional offices are scattered over most of North and Eastern India. You, as well as your client, know that the answer cannot be found in a day – you are given twelve months, and an advance of Rs 20 lakhs, to start your assignment and finish it to their fullest satisfaction. What would you do? (TICK ONE) (a) Presuming that all the units have the same approach to information security, you target one unit by doing a phone tap/bugging operation, to begin with. (b) You decide to first check out market sources on the target’s strengths, vulnerabilities and unique resources, before selecting a victim. (c) Approach a well-established placement agency to plant one of more trained operatives, in a fairly responsible position(s), in one of the units with better turnover. (d) None of the above. Good! Your Answer is Right        Correct Answer is (d) 1. Keeping in view their highly diversified structure this group would also have evolved different organisational structures, cultures and methodologies peculiar to the socio-economic climate in which each unit operates. Targeting one may yield data which may not be relevant to others. However, there’s no harm if it is representative of (what your information tells you) is their Group Culture, if such a thing exists today. 2. This is a good strategy, but market research cannot be accepted at face value – it has to be cross checked. 3. This is a good long-term strategy – if you have enough time. 4. This is best because alone, none will do – but a combination of 1,2 and 3 will be just fine!