• Training: Fundamentals of Competitive Intelligence
  November 30 - December 1, 2009
  Two full-day workshops offering the beginner and intermediate level CI professional, a comprehensive professional development program to sharpen your skills in CI research and analysis techniques.
• SCIP Oregon Chapter Meeting: When in Doubt: Ethical Elicitation Techniques that Gather Actionable Intelligence
  December 1, 2009
  
• SCIP Boston Chapter: From Implications to Implementation
  December 8, 2009
  
• SCIP NJ Chapter and NJ MarCom Meeting
  December 9, 2009
  
• SCIP Greater DC Chapter Meeting: Scenario Analysis
  December 9, 2009
  
• SCIP Minnesota Chapter Holiday Party
  December 10, 2009
  
• 2010 SCIP International Annual Conference
  March 9 - 12, 2010
  The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) has joined forces with the Frost & Sullivan Institute (FSI) to collaborate on our 2010 International Conference and Exhibition. SCIP has been the force behind the world’s largest annual gathering of the competitive intelligence community: This year we are proud to mark our 25th Silver Anniversary…25 years of bringing you the best of the best. We look forward to working with the Frost & Sullivan Institute to expand the global footprint and visibility of competitive intelligence. Our merged resources, formats, and capabilities will serve to provide enhanced educational services and increased networking opportunities.
  
  We’re bringing you five all new tracks in 2010:
  
• CI Professional Growth
• CI Tools and Techniques
• Competitive Strategy to Drive Growth: C-Suite CI
• The Globalization of CI
• Strategic Marketing Research and Intelligence


Choose from among 8 Workshops and more than 40 Practitioner and Interactive Sessions to design a program that meets your individual challenges.
We're confident you will be impressed with this year’s event, and look forward to having you join us.

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• Competitive intelligence research with LinkedIn - who's hiring?
  LinkedIn, the Facebook for business people, offers two outlets of information that are worth keeping in mind when analysing competitors: Jobs and Companies. This post will focus on the Jobs section of the web 2.0 resource. (blog) Ian Smith, November 23, 2009 More >
• Global recession and its effect on work ethics
  Stealing employer data has become endemic in our culture. According to a survey, 85% admitted to knowing that downloading corporate information from their employer was illegal, yet a quarter would take the data regardless of the penalties. In fact, 41% have already taken sensitive data with them to a new position. (press release) November 23, 2009 More >
• Scenario analysis of the telecommunications industry
  The true benefit of scenario analysis is that it helps decision-makers create strategies with a view of the multiple ways the future may unfold. Here are the slides from a series of presentations on scenario analysis. (article/powerpoint) August Jackson, November 22, 2009 More >
• Law firms - learning and the adoption of corporate practices
  Competitive intelligence has already started out to make the rounds of offices throughout the country as a business strategy. You are already competing for the job. Competitive Intelligence analysis for lawyers may be the following. (blog) November 21, 2009 More >
• Competitive intelligence on a shoestring budget
  It's just as vital today for small companies to keep tabs on what the competition is doing, particularly in products and services. Here are some steps you can take to get an intelligence program off the ground. (article) Mike Collins, November 20, 2009 More >
• Q&A with Avinash Kaushik, Google Analytics Evangelist
  The world has changed in two years, especially in three areas: user centric design, competitive intelligence and social media. The second half of the book covers analytical techniques, social media analysis, competitive intelligence. (article) Daniel Waisberg, November 20, 2009 More >
• SCIP Summit Europe
  There was a strong sense of camaraderie which made for some strong interactive sessions, and gave the conference a constructive spirit - something which has been lacking in years where the numbers of attendees have been higher but the climate inside the conference colder. In a nutshell - worth battling for budget for, for 2010. (blog) Julia Hordle, November 20, 2009 More >
• Twitter and e-mail as a media channel
  Channels like Twitter, e-mail, and mobile share common ground and require overlapping skill sets for proficiency. They are all push media. There is immediacy -- a "here today, gone tomorrow" aspect that makes it difficult to monitor and report on competitive intelligence. (article) Bill McCloskey, November 19, 2009 More >
• Twitter as a tool to track competitive intelligence
  The very act of socialising an organisation means individuals share their motivations and information that can be tracked and used by third parties to competitive advantage. (blog) Stephen Waddington, November 19, 2009 More >
• Avoiding 5 competitive intelligence pitfalls
  In competitive intelligence we have pitfalls that inhibit us from reaching the desired goal. That goal is to help strategy leaders make better decisions.Here are my five (least) favorite pitfalls that should be avoided. (blog) Tom Hawes, November 18, 2009 More >