Competitive Intelligence Marketplace

Webinar: Creative CI Collection for Competitive Advantage

SCIP is hosting a webinar titled Creative CI Collection for Competitive Advantage.  Here's the description from the website:

Intelligence collection is at the heart of the CI process. Accomplishing it in the most productive, complete and efficient manner is critical to a lasting and successful CI effort. At the same time, finding information that provides for competitive advantage – information and intelligence of which our competitors may not have the same awareness or ability to access – requires a creative approach to CI collection. Knowledge of unique and lesser known information and intelligence sources can accommodate advantages and successes for the CI professionals who employ them and the companies we support. Join SCIP for this Webinar to learn about these sources, as well as related research tools and techniques. At the conclusion of the Webinar, you will be able to:

Identify and use lesser known and only recently available sources that explicitly meet CI collection needs and requirements, specifically related to publicly available information. Utilize database and web search tools and techniques to target effectively the most relevant information, avoid overload and cut through extraneous results. Recognize creative sources that meet your particular needs and lead you to more successful CI collection in the future.

Instructor is Toni Wilson.
Date/time: February 28, 2008/1200-1300 Eastern
Price: $95 for SCIP members; $195 for non-members

Return on Intelligence Webinar

AuroraWDC is hosting the webinar ROI & The Knowledge Value Chain on September 26, 2007 at 1 PM ET, and featuring Tim Powell of The Knowledge Agency.  Here's a brief description from the website:

The Knowledge Value Chain helps intelligence professionals understand how they add value. It’s not a magic process, you can learn how it works, and how to use it – and once you do, you will gain a significant edge over the “intelligence technicians” who know only sources and techniques. The key is learning to think like a business person - something that not enough “knowledge professionals” do. Calculating risks, spotting threats and opportunities, moving forward with imperfect and incomplete information - these skills are the lifeblood of business - yet many intelligence professionals have not mastered them. You’ll emerge with an expanded appreciation of how your intelligence clients think, how they are incentivized, and what they need from you. You’ll begin to be able to anticipate their needs, rather than just reacting to their requests. Specifically, you will learn: the seven key stages of processing for intelligence; the seven action steps that propel you from one stage to the next; 36 intelligence value creators – specific things you can do to increase your intelligence ROI, and to make sure you are doing; 31 intelligence value destroyers – things that reduce your intelligence ROI, and that you should avoid.

Tim Powell has worked with over 100 corporate, entrepreneurial, NGO, and government clients during a career that spans four decades.  He has served as an external intelligence liaison for a global Fortune 50 corporation for over a decade.  He has a BA in pre-medical studies from Yale College, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management .

Webinar: Making Competitive Intelligence Effective

Christopher Dalley and Mike Brose of Primary Intelligence will be hosting a webinar, Making Competitive Intelligence Effective, on September 27, 2007 at 2 PM ET.  Sign up is here.