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Researcher, author, university professor, community volunteer, and distance cycling enthusiast. Best known in the CI community for a variety of books in over a dozen languages on competitive analysis and managing competitive intelligence (published by Financial Times, Greenwood, Praeger, Pearson, Prentice Hall, and FT Press, among others), as well as being originator and inaugural chair of the Competitive Intelligence Foundation (CIF, Washington, DC), past-president (2006) and Board Member (2004-07) of SCIP, founding editor of the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management (JCIM, 2003-06), SCIP Meritorious Award winner for lifetime contributions to the field and a SCIP Fellow. Regularly conduct workshops and/or teach individuals of all experience levels subjects such as managing competitive intelligence, business and competitive analysis, competitive technical intelligence (CTI), strategic management, business planning and policy. An internationally-focused academic who has presented or taught in over three dozen countries, I am Chair of Business and Public Affairs and Professor of Management at the College of Coastal Georgia (US), Docent in Business Information Management at Tampere University of Technology (FI), graduate MScom faculty member at Università della Svizzera italiana (CH), and also associated with Leicester Business School (UK), Pretoria (ZA) and Windsor (CA).

When not available via this site, I can typically be reached at:
Dr. Craig S. Fleisher, Chair of Business & Public Affairs and Professor of Management (Strategy & Entrepreneurship)
College of Coastal Georgia
3700 Altama Avenue
Brunswick, GA 31520 USA
Tel: +1.800.675.7235 | Fax: +1.912.279.5878
E-mail: cfleisher@ccga.edu
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The Next Gen, Business and CI

Lately, I've been doing a lot of thinking as well as presenting to a variety of community, interest and professional groups about workforce and career development issues. The research I'm doing in this sphere is both interesting and potentially important, not the least of which because we are in a recessionary context, but also because the workplace of future decades (2010+) is likely to have different characteristics than the ones I became so familiar with over the last 20-30 years. Think about… Continue

Posted on March 3, 2009 at 7:36am — 1 Comment

Craig S. Fleisher

Can MBA students learn to effectively do competitive analysis?

I just finished my most recent MBA course teaching Business and Competitive Analysis to our newest crop of students here at the University of Windsor's Odette School of Business. I actually did this version of the course over two straight weeks, with only a weekend in between to allow people a chance to absorb the material. It was a fast and wild ride, but the students and I seem to have come through it okay. It was nice seeing them rise to the challenge, as I've always been known as a demanding… Continue

Posted on December 19, 2008 at 5:14pm —

Craig S. Fleisher

CI technology changes not only practice but post-secondary teaching as well

I've been finishing the development of two courses I'm about to be teaching and have been working overtime to try and integrate some of the better technological facets available into my teaching approach. I have long been pleased to see the CI practitioners I frequently research being early adopters of technology in support of their day-to-day activities. Some CI practitioners (and a few of you are on or reading about it on the Ning site -- you know who you are ;) have become leading proponents… Continue

Posted on December 4, 2008 at 9:16am —

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At 3:34pm on May 19, 2009, Bonnie Hohhof said…
Hi Craig,

Just saw your new article on "Examining differences in competitive intelligence practice: China, Japan, and the West" in Thunderbird International Business Review (formerly International Executive), May 1, 2009, v51/3, p249- 261. Great topic.

Bonnie
At 7:16pm on May 4, 2009, martha gleason said…
Hello Craig,
As you can see I'm having a little trouble getting my Ning-ja belt...but I hope to get more active in the near future and m
aking my fellow Ning-jas proud.

It was great seeing you in Chicago and congratulations on the well deserved award.

Martha
At 9:15am on May 4, 2009, Kelsey Hare said…
Thank you for the note Craig, and congratulations to you as well for receiving the well deserved honor of the Meritorious Award!
 
 
 

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