• SCIP Minnesota Chapter Program: Creating the Roadmap to World-Class Competitive Intelligence Programs
  September 10, 2010
  
• Starting and Managing a CI Function
  September 28 - 29, 2010
  This two day course is designed to help attendees learn how to develop and implement a CI function that avoids generating more nice-to-know information, and instead helps participants envision, develop, staff, resource, maintain, and, most importantly, benefit from, a CI function that offers true decision-support and insights with the active participation of company decision-makers.
• SCIP ITALIA: 2010 SCIP ITALIA PROGRAMS
  October 14, 2010
  
• SCIP St. Louis Chapter Presents: Wowing Customers via Competitive Intelligence
  October 14, 2010
  Wowing Customers via Competitive Intelligence (CI)! "Eyes and Ears of the Marketplace"
• Fundamentals of Competitive Intelligence
  December 14 - 15, 2010
  Two full-day workshops offering the beginner and intermediate level CI professional, a comprehensive professional development program to sharpen your skills in CI research and analysis techniques.

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• Sell the problem
  No business buys a solution for a problem they don't have. More >
• How to tell when your boss is lying
  Researchers have combed through transcripts of 30,000 executive-level conference calls, and they've figured out the signs that betray CEOs who tell fibs about their companies' finances. More >
• How your smartphone will transform your elevator pitch
  Elevator pitches are important. The ability to boil down the essence of your innovation into a tasty forty-second sound-bite remains essential. More >
• New search engine promises relevance, now
  The new search engine, NowRelevant.com, says that it will find, "everything about your subject for the past two weeks." More >
• Social media and competitive intelligence
  You can minimize the information that your competition can act on by carefully considering what you're sharing. More >
• interview with the expert: competitive intelligence guru Seena Sharp
  We sat down with Seena Sharp, founder of one of the first competitive intelligence firms in the country to get some solid CI basics of our own. More >
• The war (game) metaphor: or my discomfort with what I do
  Although I'm a scarred veteran of many competitive-strategy campaigns, I don't like the business-is-war metaphor. More >
• Want to be a great communicator? Use plain English
  Here are 10 tips to help you succeed in business by learning to speak and write in plain English, or whatever language you use. More >