Sky is the Limit!

SCIP Barcelona CI Workshop

At this year's SCIP (Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Association) European Summit in Barcelona, Spain, November 16-18 I will hold another competitive intelligence related workshop.

After the huge success at last year's Amsterdam Summit I was asked by SCIP to come up with an advanced edition of the workshop based on my past experience to establish and advance a global competitive intelligence unit. I truly hope to meet you all again at that SCIP conference. Contact me should you have any questions prior to signing up for that workshop.

For participants in my last year's SCIP workshop: if you are ready to extend your CI unit's exposure throughout the organization this workshop is for you. There is about 30% overlap with the initial workshop which might serve as a refresher.

November 16, 9am-12noon

Sky is the Limit! Identify Surprising Opportunities to Expand your CI Unit’s Operation Span

Jens Thieme, Global Head of Program Management Custom Manufacturing/Lonza

Participants will work out and experience hands-on how to easily and structurally identify the CI function’s status and growth potential and how to exploit additional opportunities from within their own organization.

Take-Aways

• Identify fundamentals of a modern CI function broken down into real world key elements

• Establish an actionable framework that is used to guide any improvement by identifying obstacles and solutions for all key elements of the CI function

• Explore opportunities based on their own work environment and prepare decision makers to buy in to additional mandates for the CI function well beyond the current scope

Venue:

Hesperia Tower
Gran Via 144 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
08907 Barcelona
Barcelona Spain
Tel: (+34) 93 413 50 00
Fax: (+34) 934 135 010
hotel@hesperia-tower.com
http://www.hesperia-tower.com

Register for the SCIP Barcelona European Summit 2010 here.

SCIA workshop

CI Roadmap by GIA

As a long time Global Intelligence Alliance customer I have grown familiar with their services and impact. The CI Development Roadmap had helped me in my former function to establish a CI function for a global chemicals conglomerate.

This new installment of workshop, Competitive Intelligence Magazine article and White Paper on the GIA Competitive Intelligence Roadmap plus my personal experience with it in a corporate setting was sbject of the November 24 workshop in Zurich for the Swiss Competitive Intelligence Alliance.

As you can find in below's documents GIA describes a CI function's evolution in 5 potential development stages across 6 distinct success factors. The matrix they use compares the functions of CI organization, scope, process, culture, tool and deliverables.

As a global Market & Competitive Intelligence executive I turned this matrix into a sophisticated survey and program for my former management to determine the status quo of the then CI function, compare with best practice whereas the gap analysis resulted in firm mandates by these very executives.

Have fun studying the material and let me know if you have any questions.

• Roadmap Presentation GIA
• Ciba Case Study
• Transforming into Project Initiative
• GIA White Paper
• CI Magazine Article

SCIA Workshop

Lean version of EuroSCIP

November 24 I will run a leaner version of the half-day workshop I gave in Amsterdam at the European Competitive Intelligence Summit by SCIP November 4th.

Hope to greet you there and this time I also hope to be able to run the show with Hans Hedin who needed to stay back home this time around.

SCIP Amsterdam Registration

Competitive Intelligence Summit

Registration for the 2009 European Competitive Intelligence Summit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is now available. Please come and join me at this conference which might become the largest Competitive Intelligence professionals gathering ever in Europe.

After last year's huge success in Rome (yeah, in the middle of the economic downturn shockwave) here is another installment of the European version of SCIP's annual CI conference.

Running a pre-conference workshop this time with my friend Hans Hedin of the Global Intelligence Alliance (GIA) I will be in best company with scores of global CI experts.

Check out the program here and register via the brochure or at SCIP's website.

SCIA Education Day

Half Day CI Event

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.

We were able to win quite a number of top notch speakers to the topic and I certainly hope that our members and additional interested CI professionals will join in numbers on September 29, 2009 in Zurich.

Monika Giese (Switzerland) will talk about a case of an internal annual CI education program at a large global corporation and focus on the implementation of the Prescott/Comai CI model there.

Stefan Schuppisser (Switzerland) is a leading business school professor and is just about to ramp up academic efforts here in Switzerland to support CI professionals and companies much more intensely as in the past.

Rainer Michaeli(Germany) will introduce ICI's options to support your educational needs as a CI practitioner.

So will Toni Nagle (United Kingdom) of ACI, SCIA members and interested visitors will learn about their opportunities to become better educated CI pro's from various angles.

SCIP will support SCIA with material and a featured reading/commentary via phone by Bonnie Hohof (US) of SCIP.

And finally Alessandro Comai (Spain) and John Prescott (US) will also dial in to introduce their World Class CI Model, share their experience in CI education and provide insights into career path supporting CI training options.

All speakers in the room and on the phone will finally join forces in a major panel discussion fed by SCIA members questions (via survey as mentioned above) and live questions in the room and from the sessions.

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