• Connecticut Southern New England Chapter Meeting
  July 9 - 9, 2008
  Text Analytics allows research professionals to finally gain insights from the majority of data collected in business (80% which is in unstructured/text format).
• New Jersey Chapter Joint Summer Networking Event
  July 16 - 16, 2008
  The NJ MarCom Council Joint Summer Networking Event (learn more) gets bigger and better every year. Join fellow marketers, communicaters, creative talent and media professionals as we flock together to celebrate a hot summer evening with lots of networking and great food at The Olde Mill Inn at Basking Ridge, NJ on Wednesday, July 16, 2008. Register Now!
• Greater DC Chapter Meeting
  July 23 - 23, 2008
  "Due Diligence" is a term that gets used often in business and applies to a broad set of concepts and activities.
• Wisconsin Chapter Game Theory Workshop
  July 24 - 24, 2008
  As an Intelligence professional, a big part of your job rests on your ability to predict the moves of your competitors, before they happen so your organization has time to refine its strategy before it’s too late.
• Iowa Chapter Meeting
  July 24 - 24, 2008
  Join the Iowa SCIP chapter and Stephen J. Schulz, President of Line of Sight, LLC for a discussion of how organizations are bringing together three related functions (market research, competitive intelligence and library science) to achieve their goals and increase their competitiveness.
• Webinar: The Kit User-Needs Identification Process: Understanding
  July 29 - 29, 2008
  This webinar will provide a basic understanding of the most effective user-needs identification process being used by CI professionals today. The key intelligence topics (KITs) process is based on both government and private-sector experience and has been successfully applied in a number of companies. It is well appreciated by both executives (the consumers) and those CI professionals who have successfully used it.
• Webinar: Countering "why didn't you say something", effective CI communication
  August 7 - 7, 2008
  What's the value of intelligence that isn't received? If CI (competitive intelligence) is fundamentally about the ability to adapt and compete through understanding of the competitive environment, then effective communication is key. This seminar will review some common barriers users/readers/audiences experience with information uptake. We will also review some of the methods that have worked at TELUS Business Solutions.
• Training: Fundamentals of Competitive Intelligence
  September 8 - 9, 2008
  This full-day workshop will offer those professionals new to competitive intelligence (CI) a comprehensive introduction to CI. The presenters will develop a working definition of CI and discuss CI ethics. Attendees will learn what primary and secondary resources are available and the techniques necessary to access them. As an attendee, you will also learn how to analyze and manage data effectively once it has been collected.
• Toronto Chapter Meeting
  September 11 - 11, 2008
  Participants will learn how to assess the landscape of the industry they compete in to identify and capitalize on growth opportunities.
• Iowa Chapter Meeting - Save The Date
  September 11 - 11, 2008
  How can CI professionals leverage networking technologies to find intelligence and contact customers, distributors, suppliers, and peers? What new technologies are changing CI? Under-used resources and specific examples will illustrate the power of these technologies in CI practice.
• SCIP Italia Meeting
  September 18, 2008
  
• Training: Competitive Financial Intelligence
  December 2 - 5, 2008
  Fast-paced and highly interactive, this example-laden course will equip you to dissect domestic and international financial statements – Profit and Loss Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flows – and discover a) just how well your competitor is actually performing, and b) what future strategic moves are financially feasible. Analyzing financial statements is a key – but too often omitted – skill required for effective competitive intelligence. In just two days, Dr. Rogers’ enthusiastic up-to-date presentations, reinforced with actual in-class case studies, will provide thorough in-depth grounding in statement analysis and the skills to expose secrets your competitor would prefer you not know.
• SCIP Italia Meeting - December 18, 2008
  December 18, 2008
  Save The Date!
  Topic: Review of SCIP Italia activities for 2008 and prgram for 2009
  Location: Milan c/o Scip Italia,Via Pergolesi, 24, Milan
  Time: 4:00-6:00 p.m.
  More details coming soon! Please frequently visit the SCIP webiste for updates!

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• Blogging mandatory or voluntary?
  Some organizations might integrate blogs within formal work practices and business processes so there may be situations when in fact, blogging is required. For instance, perhaps a company decides that competitive intelligence analysts should blog their personal insights about what they are seeing in the market. (blog) Mike Gotta, July 7 2008 More >
• Over the line: global benchmark survey on CI ethical and legal issues."
  Why are we conducting a survey on ethics? To get a more complete and up-to-date picture of the state of ethics in CI, this survey will ask you to judge a variety of information-gathering situations you may encounter. Leonard Fuld More >
• Signs to identify business refreshing
  Technological innovation can alter your business landscape-changing what your customers want, how your business operates, and who your competitors are. A shift in technology can make existing products obsolete and create a market for new products or services almost overnight. Paul Tiffany, July 7, 2008 More >
• Time to dig into economic gardening
  Competitive intelligence (C.I.) research specialists -- both industry specific and for business in general -- are experts in conducting strategic research to facilitate business growth. Competitive Intelligence research and consulting services are typically expensive and are most commonly set up to serve urban-based and very large companies. However, Humboldt State University has just launched a new service to make this strategic research for critical planning and market development challenges much more convenient and affordable to local firms. Adrienne Harling, July 7, 2008 More >
• Trade show success: the power of asking questions
  One of the first questions your team should ask is some variation of "Who are you and what do you do?" Never, ever rely on badges. People can easily swap them. This is probably the most commonly used competitive intelligence gathering strategy. (blog) Susan Friedman, July 7 2008 More >
• Intelligence analysts keep tabs on competitors
  Commercial intelligence increasingly used as a business tool as competition tightens in the marketplace. The significant growth in these services means more jobs in the field to conduct full web and database scans, determine what's important and useful, and provide essential information on their clients' competitors' developments, regulatory matters and emerging issues and trends even as they develop, or even better, before they develop. James Foster, July 5, 2008 More >
• Oil is will
  The "New Russia" is the reason why I am part of this extremely closed-door partners-only think session of Europe's finest corporate intelligence honchos. We are assessing the future of the Russian economy, as part of our effort to understand the bigger picture of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) domination of global economics tomorrow. Dilip Cherian, July 4, 2008 More >
• Patent offshoring sector to grow at 35%
  Large corporations outsource chunks of their patent drafting process such as prior art search, patent illustration, patent proofreading and actual patent drafting in some cases. However, very few companies outsource services such as landscape reports and competitive intelligence reports as the patent services industry in India is still in its infancy. Adith Charlie, July 4, 2008 More >
• Sensible compensation
  Getting data about what your competitors are paying their staff is a much tougher assignment but it's doable. When a competitor advertises a position for hire, you might give their HR manager a call and ask what the salary range is for the position. Borderline unethical? Not really. This is routine competitive intelligence gathering in my opinion. (blog) Michael Alter, July 3, 2008 More >
• Surveillance as a legitimate competitive intelligence tool
  A survey in Britain and the United States found that eavesdropping in public places was common. Nearly two out of five British professionals (35 per cent) and 34 per cent of Americans surveyed said they had caught sight of other people's sensitive company documents. If you conduct business in inappropriate places, then expect somebody to listen in on what is transpiring. If you work on company documents in public, then expect somebody to look over your shoulder. Conducting business in public makes surveillance of your activities legal and ethical. (blog) Richard McEachin. July 3, 2008 More >