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Saturday, November 21, 2009
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ISSUE 44
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SCIP04 Tuesday evening event: Benjamin Zander.
by Carolina Olivieri
Mr. Benjamin Zander, the world famous conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, will present an inspirational program on leadership, creativity, and team-building, derived from his best selling book, The Art of Possibility. This program has been successfully presented around the globe to CEOs and senior level business professionals. In this new model of leadership, the conductor sees his job as awakening possibility in others by inviting us all to become passionate communicators.
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Would Macy's scan Gimbels? CI and RFID.
by Ross Stapleton-Gray
This article speculates on some potential impacts of the advent of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technologies on retail stores in areas of competitive intelligence, and new availability of information within and about supply chains. The assessment is largely from the point of view of the retailer, and is intended to outline several hypotheses.
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10 reasons to attend an association conference.
by Dale Fehringer
Have travel restrictions or reduced budgets prevented you from attending an association conference the past couple of years? Has an increased workload hampered your ability to keep up with the changes and new products in your profession? Does it look like you “might” have some funds next year for employee education? If the answer to any of those questions is “yes,” consider enhancing your skills and catching up on what’s new in your industry by attending an association conference. This checklist will help you define to your management the value gained by attending an association conference.
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Primary sources to help you control your cow.
by David Carpe
In the field of competitive intelligence, primary research is loosely defined as ‘in-depth interviews’ with individuals likely to be intimate with competitor or marketplace activity. Everything else seems to become secondary research by default. Is there room for more stratification? Let’s rethink what we’re doing when we call ‘all other’ secondary research. Step back from popular CI industry definitions and imagine primary research to more broadly encompass any primary source.
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CI Partner Program update: 4 new members.
by Carolina Olivieri
Inquesta Corporation provides actionable answers to clients’ questions about their external risks and adversaries. Inquesta is a network of resourceful thinkers from business, law and academia, directed by former US intelligence officers and experienced business executives. Inquesta’s services include corporate and country risk management, as well as industry risk management including competitive intelligence to produce results-oriented, fact-based assessments leading to effective business strategies. For more information, please contact Jacques Island at +1.305.779.3069.
Founded in 1992, DIE DENKFABRIK (The Think Factory) is a full service competitive intelligence consulting firm. Based in Germany, DIE DENKFABRIK helps global clients gain competitive advantages through our world-class services including decision- and risk analysis, primary and secondary research, strategy development, in-house CI programs, counter intelligence and workshops. For further information, contact Rainer Michaeli.
RDAssociates, Inc is a business intelligence, market research and consulting firm. Our analysts provide tailored research including customized industry and company analyses, tracking reports, mystery shopping/in-store audits, acquisition assessment, branding, customer satisfaction and sales force insight. RDAssociates consistently delivers key business insights to its clients for successful strategic initiatives. For further information, please contact Richard Douglas at 610-896-6272 Ext.10.
CBIA is South Africa's oldest company specializing exclusively in competitive intelligence consulting and training. Founded in 1994, CBIA has played a major role in the development of this profession in Southern Africa and is also one of the older CI consultancies in the World. The CBIA training courses are accredited by the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) in Pretoria. For further information, contact Steve Whitehead.
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JCIM v.1 n.2 is now available.
by Susan Crow
Issue 1 number 2 of the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management is now up on the SCIP website. Featured articles are:
- Info-terrorism in the age of the internet: challenges and initiatives.
- Chronological and categorized bibliography of key competitive intelligence scholarship, part 2 1990-1996.
- Corporate intelligence in a corporately intelligent world.
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The intranet gets serious, part 2.
by Gerry McGovern
There is a view in some organizations that an intranet is only for staff, so you can publish what you want. Quality content matters as much on an intranet as on a public website. Get your content right to begin with. Keep it right by removing out-of-date content. While many intranets have indeed improved over the last five years, there is still one area where very little progress has been made: measurement of the return on investment (ROI). If you're managing an intranet today, you need to develop ROI models.
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Have you done something interesting?
by Bonnie Hohhof
Have you been interviewed by the press? Published in a journal? Received an award? Presented to a professional group? Let us know about it. SCIP wants to highlight the accomplishments of its volunteers and members, both professional and personal. Just send me an email outlining what you've done.
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Chapter Coordinator networking.
by Mark Sullivan
Chapters play a key role in the SCIP experience for most of our members and SCIP is moving to enhance that experience. The Chapters Meeting at the SCIP04 Boston Confernce will kick-off a process to help the chapters better serve the membership, and improve the chapter experience for both the SCIP members and the hard-working volunteers that make the chapters possible.
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Write for CI magazine.
by Bonnie Hohhof
Interested in writing for SCIP's Competitive Intelligence Magazine? Here are the 2004 issue topics:
- March/April -- collection and networking
- May/June -- online services and the internet
- July/August -- analytical approaches
- September/October -- global
- November/December -- government and non-profit
Send your article ideas to Bonnie Hohhof.
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New CI Resource Directory edition now in March/April issue.
by Jon Lowder
Sign up now for the CI Resource Directory, now featured in the March/April 2004 issue of CI Magazine! This is an excellent opportunity to reach over 4,000 SCIP members worldwide. Most of our readers are senior professionals ready to make buying decisions. Keep your company in prime position by placing a listing in “business card format” in this handy pull-out reference guide! In addition,the Resource Directory is maintained on the SCIP website. See the format of the last directory here. Visit the SCIP website for more detailed information.
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FYI: new and notable.
by Bonnie Hohhof
- Search engines: news and updates.
- Internet sites with information you can use.
- Software and products.
- Searching reviews and tips.
- General readings of interest.
- Articles mentioning competitive intelligence.
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Happy Holidays from Thomson Delphion!
The Thomson Delphion team wishes you happy holidays and a prosperous new year.
www.delphion.com
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