Last year I completed the work for a management seminar about Competitive Intelligence for Euroforum, a leading seminar specialist company. The seminar (in German) was on building and developing a competitive function.

Euroforum Seminar: Programmatischer Auf- und Ausbau einer Wettbewerbsbeobachtungs- und Analysefunktion von Jens Thieme

When stuff excites me and my peers, when news piss me off or hidden information throws me sideways I want to share some thoughts with you. Chime in to the debates if you like to discuss/share with friends. I might provoke at times or reflect in a way that you can't agree. 

All good reasons to debate then.

I just decided to replicate my photo albums from FlickR and Picasa here at the blog as I might run out of space there eventually. Plus: you guys asked to have everything in one place. So, here it goes:

A high end selection of my online photos, click here...

A classmate posted a photo from 1981 to Stayfriends.de.

Can you find me?

Turns out one of the Russian's accused of spying in the US for the Russian secret service is a colleague I have dealt with on multiple low key occasions but also personally to some extend. Makes me wonder how many surprises in our lives remain undetected...?

Read about my very little "spy experience".

As I just purchased a new apartment in Valais' capital Sion I just took a couple of pictures the other day to get warmed up with the new place.

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.