As I am focusing on a new career and enjoy the Southern tip of Switzerland nowadays I sadly had to bid farewell to my fellow SCIA board members, the society's members and all friends I met there over the years.

Farewell to all SCIA friends

You can now download the article from Hans Hedin and myself featuring the GIA CI Development Roadmap. The article is based on several workshops on the matter that I held in Amsterdam, Helsinki and Zürich.

Competitive Intelligence Magazine January/February 2010 article "From Firefighters to Futurists"

Slowly but surely I am getting settled in beautiful Valais, Switzerland. The food is too good for fitness, the landscape is stunning beyond believe, people nice without comparison and the climate is a solid blend of mediterranean/italian/french plus alpine/outdoors.

Check out some early pictures from the new home and immediate area. I also updated some likes of late.

Wishing all my blog visitors a properous, fun and memorable new year. I started mine with a blast, have a look.

As a last contribution in my SCIA board years, which will come to an end in January 2010 as I need to shift my focus towards contract management, away from Competitive Intelligence, I held a workshop on CI function development in Zurich last night.

Read all the details and get access to the workshop material here

After almost four years of conceptualizing, deploying and running Markintell.com I have decided to hand it over to a new owner who can take the site to the next level.

It is always hard to give up an own project...

At the Swiss Competitive Intelligence Association (SCIA) we are preparing a half day event to support our national members in their efforts to gain traction for their Competitive Intelligence related career paths.

Find details about the event on September 29, 2009 here.

This fall I will be one of the 7 experts offering a written Competitive Intelligence management seminar for Euroforum in German. Other experts in the team include SCIP's current Vice President Eduardo Flores Bermudez, DCIF's current president Andreas Romppel, Kai Goerlich of SAP, Prof. Dr. Martin Grothe, Christian Muth, Jörg Preatorius.

See more details about this Competitive Intelligence management seminar here.

As the co-author among many bright Competitive Intelligence professionals I would like to point you towards this collection of wisdom of Competitive Intelligence leaders sharing their experience in building and improving Competitive Intelligence departments and functions.

Read my whole chapter of the book here exculsively. As a CI professional you might want to buy the book from SCIP.

The Swiss Competitive Intelligence Association (SCIA) invited members and other interested Competitive Intelligence professionals to the 2009 summer evening event "World-class Competitive Intelligence Organizations: Academic Model vs. Reality"presented by Monika Giese, Basel (Switzerland) June 25, 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Read an event summary here.