• Webinar: SCIP/UK: Bottom Line Intel--Increase Your ROI
  July 7, 2009
  
• Dallas/Ft. Worth Chptr. Mtg.: Advancing Analytical Strategy
  July 8, 2009
  
• SCIP UK and Mgt. Consultancies Assoc.--The Art of Smart
  July 9, 2009
  
• SCIP NJ Chapter & NJ MarCom Joint Summer Networking Event
  July 13, 2009
  
• Wisconsin Chapter Half Day Workshop
  July 16, 2009
  
• SCIP Oregon Chapter and PDMA Networking at Portland Beavers
  August 19, 2009
  
• SCIP Italia Meeting
  September 17, 2009
  
• Atlanta Chapter Meeting
  September 22, 2009
  
• Toronto Chapter Full Day Meeting
  September 24, 2009
  
• Training: Starting & Managing a CI Function
  September 24 - 24, 2009
  
• Training: Competitive Financial Intelligence for Neophytes: Exposing Secrets from Public Numbers
  October 6 - 7, 2009
  Fast-paced and highly interactive, this example-laden course will equip those new to financial analysis to dissect domestic and international financial statements – Profit and Loss Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flows – and discover, a) just how well your competitor is actually performing, and b) what future strategic moves are financially feasible.
• 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.

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• Competitive intelligence: check your sparkplugs
  Suppose we forget to check on what the competition is doing or we poorly understand the overall competitive environment. When this happens, the organization begins to misfire. There are 10 signs to look for that indicates such misfires. (blog) Tom Hawes, June 30, 2009 More >
• Older C-level execs avoud Twitter, blogs
  The top three research topics that C-level executives seek are competitor analysis (53 percent), customer trends (41 percent), and corporate developments (39 percent). However, information priorities vary by job function: of those executives in sales and marketing, 76 percent say they seek customer trends; of those executives in finance, 63 percent said they seek competitor analysis; of those executives in IT, 59 percent seek technology trends. (article) Anna Maria Virzi, June 30, 2009 More >
• CI in innovation
  Our knowledge within specific markets and industry of mega trends, external influencers, new technologies, unmet customer and consumer needs, and comprehensive sources of information across functions/boundaries gives CI professionals perhaps a unique role. (blog) Stan Dyck, June 26, 2009 More >
• Don't let the recovery catch you by surprise
  Trying to predict precisely when the economic recovery will begin, how resilient it will be, and how competitors, customers, and other players will behave when it starts is foolish. A scenario planning mindset to the recovery will most likely better position your company to benefit when it occurs. (blog) Ken Sawka, June 26, 2009 More >
• Competitive intelligence: keeps you ahead of the competition
  Competitive intelligence is an absolute must for developing a profitable business with quality products and efficient services that constantly outperform those of your competitors. It should be included in your small business marketing plans and given serious consideration when writing a business plan. (blog) N.A. June 25, 2009 More >
• Should salespersons be expeted to do more than sell?
  Salespersons are centrally involved in the competitive marketplace and thus could obtain valuable information about emerging trends in the given industry, current and imminent developments in competitors' organizations, customers' unmet needs, etc. However, it is unreasonable to expect salespersons to obtain this information unless they are involved in strategic planning and understand why such information is needed. (blog) Bob Morris, June 24, 2009 More >
• Strategic secrecy and excellence
  Cross-post a forum discussion topic that I posted in the Competitive Intelligence community on Ning that explores the concept of Apple's strategic secrecy. My hypothesis is that Apple and other companies earn the privilege to be strategically secret (note: not completely opaque) by delivering customer value and excellent products or services. (blog) August Jackson, June 24, 2009 More >
• Business intelligence vs. competitive intelligence
  From the outset it is crucially important to understand that BI can not replace CI and visa versa. Both has its place and both is of the utmost importance for the success of any organization. Business Intelligence is the management of a company's internal data. Competitive Intelligence is the gathering and analysing of intelligence about the behaviour of the market you deal in, in order to make certain decisions based on market trends. (blog) Jan Steyl, June 22, 2009 More >
• CI series 9: secure the budget
  CI investments should be justified based on the value produced compared to the resources invested. This is a financial calculation but it determines the level of respect that the function (and its advocates) will receive. Management values what they count and they count nothing as precisely as they count money. (blog) Tom Hawes, June 22, 2009 More >
• Develop proactive CI through business blindspot analysis and executive personality profiling
  In the spirit of cooperative intelligence I will share two analytical tools and how using them together can be empowering: business blindspots and executive personality profiling to predict where a company is going, and will use these tools to illustrate the slow death of print media. (blog) Ellen Naylor, June 22, 2009 More >