• 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.
• SCIP St. Louis Chapter: Evaluating CI--Successfully
  March 18, 2010
  
• SCIP WI Chapter: Competitive Intelligence Program: Benchmarking
  March 25, 2010
  
• SCIP Atlanta Chapter: What Your Competitors Know About Social Media That you Don't
  April 13, 2010
  
• 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.
• Joint SCIP Oregon and SLA Oregon Event: Shift Your Career Awareness: Sharing Different Perspectives on Work and Current Trends
  April 28, 2010
  

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• Bit.ly education part 2
  You have a competitor that you keep tabs on, right? Now you can track how effective they are at leveraging social media and see if specific campaigns they are running are having success. Or you can compare your own campaigns to theirs to see how you stack up. (blog/article) More >
• Competitor profiles are not deliverables
  We believe competitor profiles can play an important role in a company's CI activities, especially for new departments or functions. But, beware of the many pitfalls associated with them. (blog) Ken Sawka More >
• Predicting competitors: or they did what?
  Here we'll talk less about illusions of predictability and more about delusions of predicting. The pricing tournament was a kind of massive business war game using humans' strategies and a computer's calculations. (blog/article) Mark Chussil More >
• The strategic value of corporate intelligence
  Nearly every company, to one extent or another, conducts research and analysis on competitors and markets affecting their service or product lines. There are some common skill-sets that are a must-have for corporate intelligence professionals. (blog) Jeremy Tamsett More >
• Top 11 reasons I'm looking forward to SCIP 2010
  The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals 2010 International Annual Conference & Exhibition will be held March 9 - 12 in Washington, DC. Here are my top 11 reasons I'm looking forward to the conference... (blog) August Jackson More >
• Anheuser-Busch InBev brings clarity to innovation
  Suggestions for companies seeking to promote innovation. Among them: provide simple explanations for a business' strategic objectives and look beyond obvious sources for insight into innovation processes. (blog) Scott Anthony More >
• Bit.ly education part 1
  In addition to providing a short URL for your page, Bit.ly also gives some great information on traffic to that short URL (hence, your page). Here's the rundown of what you can see. (blog) More >
• How BP improved collaboration while cutting costs with a ProtoSphere virtual world
  BP created an immersive learning and collaboration environment for its future leadership. Bots from oil and other national companies presented their exploration strategy. That was driven by actual competitive intelligence data, and gave the graduates a realistic view of how competitors might play off of anything BP does. (blog) Ron Burns More >
• Drexel Post-Master Specialist Program
  Post-master's Specializations are available in competitive intelligence and knowledge management. This concentration focuses on information needs and knowledge management in special libraries, corporations and other organizational settings. More >
• 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 >