• Fundamentals of Competitive Intelligence
  January 12 - 13, 2009
  CI 101® and CI 202™ 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.
• Atlanta Chapter Meeting
  January 13, 2009
  
• Boston Chapter Meeting
  January 15, 2009
  
• Puget Sound Chapter Meeting
  January 22, 2009
  
• Oregon Chapter Meeting
  January 27, 2009
  
• St. Louis/Kansas City Chapters Annual Winter Conference Call
  January 28, 2009
  
• Webinar: Industry Thought Leaders-Who are they and how do you find them?
  January 28 - 28, 2009
  
• Greater Washington DC Chapter Half Day Meeting
  January 28, 2009
  
• Training: Starting and Managing a CI Function
  February 9 - 10, 2009
  This two day course is designed to help attendees learn how to develop and implement a CI function that avoids generating more nice-to-know information, and instead helps participants envision, develop, staff, resource, maintain, and, most importantly, benefit from, a CI function that offers true decision-support and insights with the active participation of company decision-makers.
• WEBINAR: Next Generation Competitive Intel Deliverables
  February 18 - 18, 2009
  
• Webinar: Using the Internet to Research Private Companies
  February 25 - 25, 2009
  

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• Six social search engines to start 2009
  Many reasons to search social media include monitoring for brand and reputation management purposes. Smart online marketers have also been using social search for other reasons including competitive research and opportunistic content marketing through social keyword trends. Here are 6 free social search tools that may help small businesses make their initial foray into searching the social web more productive while keeping costs to a minimum. (blog) Lee Odden, January 4, 2009 More >
• TouchGraph revisited
  When you search on a URL or some text you will get a connected graph that you can then drag around, select items to expand or edit and explore connections. I remember using an earlier version to do some competitive intelligence. Although most of the connections were obvious I did find some links that were surprising. My experience with these kinds of visualizations is that they don't provide a way that you may want the structure of the data arranged, but the new look can lead to things you may have not known. (blog) Franz Dill, January 4, 2009 More >
• An argument for open source intelligence secrecy
  Open source intelligence refers to intelligence that is derived from unclassified, legally accessible information sources. But the fact that the underlying sources of OSINT are unclassified doesn't mean the resulting intelligence can be disclosed. Decision advantage has nothing to do with the classification of the sources and methods. It has to do with the insights that the intelligence can deliver. (blog) January 3, 2009 More >
• The new open source intelligence and Silobreaker
  The consumers of the present practice of intelligence are kept in the dark. Most intelligence activities are just information or data hoarding and at best secondary research smartly upgraded by buzzword wizards. Maybe this is a bold statement but our experiences and encounters with decision makers and their support teams within both governments and business the last 20 years all confirms this observation. (blog) Mats Bjore, January 3, 2009 More >
• My favorite books for business 2008
  My list of favorite business books each year is most often focused on a few core concepts that caused me to rethink my assumptions about decision making, management, innovation and strategy within the framework of my professional orientation around the use of competitive intelligence in business. (blog) Arik Johnson, January 2, 2009, More >
• Using the internet to research private companies
  I will be reprieving an updated version of the very successful webinar I delivered for the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals on using the Internet to research private companies. I'm particularly excited about some of the updates that I'm going to be able to detail new methods and tools to research private companies using social networks. (blog) August Jackson, January 2, 2009 More >
• Intelligence competitive innovation et developpement
  This Audiobook read by the author (Henri Jean-Marie Dou) presents the development of the methods and tools of Competitive Intelligence and Regional Development using as a guideline the cycle of intelligence. This audiobook (copyright protected) can be freely downloaded for personal use only. (in French) (blog)January 1, 2009 More >
• The dilemma about blogs as marketing tools
  Gaining competitive intelligence about competitor's means of marketing can be done by searching for other blogs related to your field of business. This is mainly because blogs allow a user to openly react or state an idea or thought. This in turn helps you realize other potential strategies and tactics to do to promote the growth of your online business. (blog) Steve Fultz, December 31, 2008 More >
• A question of survival
  The Preemptive Enterprise takes nothing for granted. It knows that its deepest and strongest customer relationships are constantly at risk. It also knows that both existing and emerging competitors are able to create new value, and that its customers will always be attracted to that new value. Through the use of competitive intelligence and scenario analysis, it is able to understand the goals, strategies and capabilities of its competitors and consistently dilute and diffuse any new value that its competitors plan to bring to the market. (blog) Adrian Davis, December 30, 2008, More >
• The role of the extended AR team in rebutting analyst commentary
  The extended AR team can play a critical role in rebutting analyst commentary. Many employees hear about analyst commentary, whether written or spoken, before AR does. For instance, marketing or competitive intelligence staff that monitor media and published research might come across something that deserves attention. Well-informed sales representatives can acquire analyst comments if they make a habit of asking prospects about what they are hearing from the analysts. (blog) NA December 30, 2008 More >