On July 22, 2008 SCIP is hosting a webinar titled CI in Legal and Professional Services. The webinar is being led by Bill Fiora and Melissa Croteau who are CI practitioners for law firm Nixon Peabody. Bill is also a board member of SCIP.
More details and registration info can be found here.
Selling the value of competitive intelligence to senior executives is a recurring theme in many CI training courses. SCIP is hosting a webinar on June 30, 2008 at 11 a.m. EDT that is titled Selling CI Ideas to the Senior Executive Office. Here's the description from the website:
To celebrate the upcoming release of the new Competitive Intelligence Foundation book “Starting a Competitive Intelligence Function,” one of the chapter authors William West explains how to start a competitive intelligence department by gaining the support of the senior executive officer (SEO) in your company. At the conclusion of the Webinar, you will know how to:
Cost for SCIP members is $95 and for non-members it is $195. Register here.
SCIP is hosting a webinar on June 12 titled 'Building Awareness of the CI Function". Here's the description:
Join SCIP for this webinar to learn the critical tasks that a new CI team should address within the first several months of its existence. These same steps can be used by established CI teams to raise the awareness of their work within their own organization.
Stephen Borengasser, a contributing author to Starting a Competitive Intelligence Function, the upcoming release in the Topics in CI series from the Competitive Intelligence Foundation, will share his experience in starting a CI Function at Kimberly-Clark Professional.
Cost is $95 for SCIP members and $195 for non-members. The webinar is one hour and will run from 12:00 - 1:00 Eastern U.S. time.
Register here.
Arik Johnson provided a comprehensive write up of his take on SCIP's 2008 conference over at the CI "Ning" site, and commenters on his post are providing their own take as well.
Arik's brother Derek is the co-conference chair for SCIP09 so I'm sure he'll be paying attention to the feedback available on Ning and elsewhere.
Fuld posted the results of their most recent war game, The Battle for the Wireless Internet. One of the findings that makes a lot of sense when you think about it, but probably wouldn't occur to you (or at least you wouldn't admit that it did):
Adult content may become the “killer app” for launching the wireless Internet. As suggested by one of the judges in response to team discussions on applications, adult content is already a significant presence on the Internet and will likely have the same effect on the wireless Internet when launched.
Some things never change.
Here's the link to Search Technology/Vantage Point's listing on SCIP's 2008 Annual Conference list of exhibitors. The company description:
Search Technology provides software tools and services that enable technology analysts and information professionals to extract more value from information. Our flagship product, VantagePoint, helps you rapidly understand and navigate through search results from patent, scientific, technical and business databases, giving you a better perspective - a better vantage point - for competitive technical intelligence. Search Technology's website: http://www.thevantagepoint.com/
Full listing of SCIP08 exhibitors can be found at http://69.36.183.158/08annual/exhibitors_l.php
Here's the link to Reference USA's listing on SCIP's 2008 Annual Conference list of exhibitors. The company description:
We offer a wide range of information products – available in print, CD-ROM or via the Internet – to public, academic and special libraries. Our databases include U.S. and Canadian businesses and residents, and U.S. health care providers. Great for finding sales leads, tracking down old friends, conducting market research and more! Reference USA's website: http://www.libraryusa.com/
Full listing of SCIP08 exhibitors can be found at http://69.36.183.158/08annual/exhibitors_l.php
Here's the link to QL2 Software's listing on SCIP's 2008 Annual Conference list of exhibitors. The company description:
QL2 Software is the leading provider of data extraction and integration tools and solutions. QL2 Software extracts and transforms unstructured data from virtually any source: Web, PDF, email, Word, Excel, RSS. QL2 delivers the data that drives your competitive intelligence, business intelligence, knowledge management, and text analysis initiatives. QL2 Software's website: http://www.ql2.com/
Full listing of SCIP08 exhibitors can be found at http://69.36.183.158/08annual/exhibitors_l.php
Here's the link to Proactive Worldwide's listing on SCIP's 2008 Annual Conference list of exhibitors. The company description:
Understanding-and outsmarting the competition is more critical now than ever. Proactive Worldwide combines proven methodologies with world-class expertise to deliver the industry’s broadest and deepest set of customized, cost effective, competitive intelligence solutions available. Why guess what your competition is doing when you can KNOW what your competition is doing? Proactive Worldwide's website: http://www.proactiveworldwide.com/
Full listing of SCIP08 exhibitors can be found at http://69.36.183.158/08annual/exhibitors_l.php
Here's the link to Power Capital Consulting's listing on SCIP's 2008 Annual Conference list of exhibitors. The company description:
As an Industry Leader in Competitive and Business Intelligence, Strategic Marketplace Analysis, and Business Development, our Clients are provided with: In-depth, state-of-the-art competitive Primary Research, Strategic Insight, Feasibility, Market Entry, Benchmarking, Competitive Landscape Monitoring, Opportunity Analysis, War Gaming, and Dynamic Actionable Recommendations; Global Team Presence In More Than 50 Countries targeting every major world market; Experienced, Aggressive Industry Experts seasoned in business and competitive information procurement and insightful analysis; Ongoing Client collaboration and support with resultant tangible Marketplace Advantage. Power Capital Consulting's website: http://www.powercapitalconsulting.com/
Full listing of SCIP08 exhibitors can be found at http://69.36.183.158/08annual/exhibitors_l.php
