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ICI-1 - Competitive Intelligence Basics Workshop at Best Western Brandywine Valley Inn
September 9, 2010 at 9am to September 10, 2010 at 6pm
Achieving competitive advantage through systematic competitor and market analysis
In times of increasing competition and complex, fast-moving competitive environments, it is important to be one step ahead of the competition. Businesses have to anti…
ICI-23 - Decision, Risk and Bayes' Analysis at Euston House
October 27, 2010 from 9am to 6pm
In order to make ideal decisions, you have to be able to quantify the effects of your decisions and your goal criteria!
Among the many tasks of CI analysts and managers is support of decision-making and active involvement in strategic and operativ…
ICI-30 Business War Gaming at Euston House, London, UK
November 16, 2010 from 9am to 6pm
Explorative strategy development
Business War Gaming (BWG) is used to predict possible changes of markets as well as competitor activities and based on this and to develop the best possible reactions. With this analysis, effective strategies with a…
Wettbewerbsstrategien entwickeln (ICI-33) at Dolce-Konferenz-Hotel
March 17, 2011 at 9am to March 18, 2011 at 6pm
Wettbewerbsstrategien heute entwickeln, um morgen erfolgreich zu sein. Wie kann sich ein Unternehmen in dynamischen Märkten behaupten und sogar Wettbewerbsvorteile aus diesem Umfeld ziehen? Die Kunst der erfolgreichen Strategieentwicklung liegt in e…
Business War Gaming (ICI-30) at Dolce-Konferenz-Hotel
March 15, 2011 from 9am to 6pm
Explorative Strategieentwicklung: Die unmittelbaren Ziele von Business War Gaming sind: Mögliche Veränderungen der Märkte sowie Aktivitäten der Wettbewerber vorherzusehen und die bestmöglichen Reaktionen hierauf zu entwickeln. So entstehen schlagkrä…
Wettbewerber-Strategien analysieren (ICI-21) at Dolce-Konferenz-Hotel
March 14, 2011 from 9am to 6pm
Die sechs Perspektiven des Strategie-Re-engineerings - Die Königsdisziplin der Competitive Intelligence Analysen ist die Analyse von Wettbewerber-Strategien. Die Unternehmen der Wettbewerber-Peer-Group werden hierzu detailliert aus sechs Perspektive…
Competitive Technical Intelligence (ICI-27) at Dolce-Konferenz-Hotel
November 2, 2010 from 9am to 6pm
Technologiefrühaufklärung, Technologiebewertung, und Technologieanalyse - Das Ziel der Competitive Technical Intelligence (CTI) ist es, für das eigene Unternehmen Wettbewerbsvorteile auf den Gebieten Marketing, Produktdesign, Forschung und Entwicklu…
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- Mr Michaeli is an aeronautical engineer (Technical University of Brunswick, Germany) and an MBA (INSEAD, France) by profession. In 1993 Rainer Michaeli founded DIE DENKFABRIK GmbH (www.denkfabrik.de), a consultancy that specializes in competitive intelligence services. Prior to this he worked in various industries in marketing, sales and R&D. In 2004 Mr. Michaeli founded the "Institute for Competitive Intelligence (ICI)" (www.competitive-intelligence.com) that offers workshops and certification for CI professionals. He is a lecturer at the University of Darmstadt and Anhalt on “Competitive Intelligence” and “Competitive Dynamic Strategies”.
Mr. Michaeli is author and co-author of several publications covering Competitive Intelligence topics, his text book “Competitive Intelligence”, published in 2005, achieved instant acclaim and become a Financial Times Germany Top 3 bestseller in 2006. He is a frequent speaker at conferences in Europe and the USA.
Rainer Michaeli was an elected member of the board of SCIP (Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals), the global organization for market and competitive researchers from 2003 to 2005. In 2003 he received the SCIP Catalyst award, in 2009 SCIP's Fellow award.
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Thanks Arik, very much appreciated indeed. I'll take a listen
Digimind has several job openings in the CI field and on the vendor side (sales, marketing).
More information may be found at http://www.digimind.com/cat/news/jobs
For more details contact me.
Inteligencia competitiva para los hablamos español o portugués.
Inteligência competitiva para os que falamos português ou espanhol
Walter,
I can answer this one. Ok, first "big data" players usually means HP, Oracle, SAP, IBM. These firms are extraordinarily good at handling structured data (ie numbers) in relational databases, but they don't deal well with unstructured data,…
Oh, they are doing CI, lots of it, but they call it other things, like Data mining e.g. They solve many of the same problems but from an engineering perspective
Klaus
I've been turning this one over and can't find a satisfactory explanation.
Why don't we see more 'big data' players doing CI consulting. It seems to me that companies like Google, with absurdly comprehensive environmental data, doing more to move…
Hey Eric,
Very nice, I really like your critical dissection of the author's convoluted and ultimately flawed, thought process which you laid out very articulately. Precisely right, what exactly is the difference here? The issue of direct vs indirec…
Strategic Gaming and the Influence of Cultures at The George Inn Pub
September 16, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm
A Case Study focused on “Smart Grid” Development in China
‘The Battle for China’s Smart Grid’ was a public strategy game run on both sides of the Atlantic by Fuld & Company. It was fascinating to observe European and US perspectives on the Chinese…
ICI-1 - Competitive Intelligence Basics Workshop at Best Western Brandywine Valley Inn
September 9, 2010 at 9am to September 10, 2010 at 6pm
Achieving competitive advantage through systematic competitor and market analysis
In times of increasing competition and complex, fast-moving competitive environments, it is important to be one step ahead of the competition. Businesses have to anti…
Bill, I'm having trouble imagining you being pilloried for posting jobs during a global recession. I hope we have lots of trouble of this sort coming!
So, to take this author's point:
Gathering, analyzing and disseminating information sponsored by a major media source financed directly by a combination of pharma, oil, and automotive companies: ethically honorable.
Gathering, analyzing and dissem…
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Vielen Dank für die Freundschaft-Einladung. Beste Grüße,
Selin
Good to meet you. If there is anything specific with respect to Indian IT industry, you can ping me.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Prakash
At 8:54am on January 27, 2009, Rainer Michaeli said… > I'm interested in the correlation between CI activity and the economy (growth/decline).
Let me know once you have found something! I wonder if there's any scientific or at least empirical stuff around.
Best
Rainer
If you have time for a chat during your visit in Cairo, let me know.
Thank you anyway.
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