• SCIP SW Ohio Chapter-War Gaming: The Key to Competitive Victory
  February 9, 2010
  
• SCIP Denver/Rocky Mountain Chapter Meeting
  February 19, 2010
  
• 2010 SCIP International Annual Conference
  March 9 - 12, 2010
  The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) has joined forces with the Frost & Sullivan Institute (FSI) to collaborate on our 2010 International Conference and Exhibition. SCIP has been the force behind the world’s largest annual gathering of the competitive intelligence community: This year we are proud to mark our 25th Silver Anniversary…25 years of bringing you the best of the best. We look forward to working with the Frost & Sullivan Institute to expand the global footprint and visibility of competitive intelligence. Our merged resources, formats, and capabilities will serve to provide enhanced educational services and increased networking opportunities.
  
  We’re bringing you five all new tracks in 2010:
  
• CI Professional Growth
• CI Tools and Techniques
• Competitive Strategy to Drive Growth: C-Suite CI
• The Globalization of CI
• Strategic Marketing Research and Intelligence


Choose from among 7 Workshops and more than 40 Practitioner and Interactive Sessions to design a program that meets your individual challenges.
We're confident you will be impressed with this year’s event, and look forward to having you join us.
• Training: Introduction to Competitive Analysis
  April 26 - 27, 2010
  This two-day workshop will take participants through each of the three steps required for successful intelligence analysis. Presenter: Kenneth Sawka, a renowned expert in competitive intelligence, early warning systems, and competitive strategy.

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• Google News timeline helping to connect the dots
  Here is a nifty tool that may interest competitive intelligence researchers and analysts. Google News Timeline is an application that plots search results of news on a dateline. News content may come in the form of articles and video clips. (blog) Ian Smith More >
• Competitive intelligence: think big, start small (3)
  Take your time to build your system since it takes a lot of effort to rebuild once it is live. Think about what you want now, and in the future, put it down in writing, and then start considering tools. (blog) Jeroen Van Luik More >
• The legal minefield of social networks
  In many cases mining such information is completely legally. For example, one can examine public statements by company staffers - especially if they are inconsistent - that can point to new initiatives under way. (blog) More >
• How and what CI will improve recruiting and sourcing results
  Company wide issues are ideal because they give you an effective way to approach a prospective candidate without knowing a lot about their unique personal situation ahead of time. (blog) CorDell Larkin More >
• Dare to compare
  All organizations, particularly small and medium sized organizations, should use their trade show program to develop a simple, consistent Competitive Intelligence (CI) program to continuously gather primary intelligence on key competitors. (blog) Anne Baron More >
• Framing your social media efforts
  There are three main areas of practice for social media that your company (or you) should be thinking about: listening, connecting, publishing. There are many varied strategies you can execute using these toolsets and many different tools you can consider employing for your efforts. (blog) Chris Brogan More >
• Of form and content: an experiment in communicating the results of analysis
  Form matters. How we say something is often as important, if not more important, than what we say. (blog/article) Kristan Wheaton More >
• How well do you emotionally connect?
  Most of the time your customers will connect if you put together a crisp set of information and persuasively articulate your findings, and include some analysis, if it adds clarity and persuasiveness to your recommendations. (blog) Ellen Naylor More >
• How to connect-the-dots in your business
  What needs to happen if you want to connect disparate pieces of information about the same person, organization, or entity? Here's what you need to pull off to make this happen. (blog) Tom Davenport More >
• Competitive intelligence research with Thoora
  News search tools are rapidly changing. A tool such as Thoora aggregates popular news content and provides a couple of other value added features. The results from Thoora are broken down into three distinct sections. (blog) Ian Smith More >