SCIP 2009 Call for Proposals - Competitive Intelligence2024-03-28T08:45:48Zhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/forum/topics/2036441:Topic:7501?commentId=2036441%3AComment%3A7546&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThanks for the information. I…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2008-08-22:2036441:Comment:85422008-08-22T17:46:17.365ZJohn McGonaglehttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/JohnMcGonagle
Thanks for the information. I was glad to see that SCIP is finally going to make its keynote speakers deal with CI. I am sorry it is ignoring the speaker comp issue, however.
Thanks for the information. I was glad to see that SCIP is finally going to make its keynote speakers deal with CI. I am sorry it is ignoring the speaker comp issue, however. The deadline for proposals fo…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2008-08-22:2036441:Comment:85392008-08-22T09:48:11.208ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
The deadline for proposals for SCIP09 has been extended to September 12, 2009.
The deadline for proposals for SCIP09 has been extended to September 12, 2009. From the text of the call for…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2008-08-07:2036441:Comment:79892008-08-07T15:21:05.754ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
From the text of the call for proposals posted to scip.org:<br />
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>Intelligence R&D<br />
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>Academics and researchers continue to push at the<br />
>boundaries of competitive intelligence to identify new<br />
>methods, tools and analytical frameworks that can add<br />
>value to the practice of competitive intelligence. This is the<br />
>track for researchers to continue to push those boundaries<br />
>as well as explore the topics of competitve intelligence in<br />
>academia and how the practice can be…
From the text of the call for proposals posted to scip.org:<br />
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>Intelligence R&D<br />
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>Academics and researchers continue to push at the<br />
>boundaries of competitive intelligence to identify new<br />
>methods, tools and analytical frameworks that can add<br />
>value to the practice of competitive intelligence. This is the<br />
>track for researchers to continue to push those boundaries<br />
>as well as explore the topics of competitve intelligence in<br />
>academia and how the practice can be applied in promoting >undergraduate and graduate curriculums. Options for this<br />
>track can include multi-disciplinary topics to competitive<br />
>intelligence and vice-versa. Thanks for the clarification…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2008-08-07:2036441:Comment:79872008-08-07T15:16:03.561ZJonathan Calofhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/JonathanCalof
Thanks for the clarification but it still by title and description is not that friendly especially following the description of entrepreneurial CI which actually uses the word real world application and not academic.
Thanks for the clarification but it still by title and description is not that friendly especially following the description of entrepreneurial CI which actually uses the word real world application and not academic. Point of repetition from my e…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2008-08-07:2036441:Comment:79852008-08-07T15:09:24.620ZAugust Jacksonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/AugustJackson
Point of repetition from my expansion on the description of the tracks:<br />
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>"Intelligence R&D" is a slight modification on the legacy "Scholarly &<br />
>Innovation" track to explore new topics from the world of academia<br />
>and research.
Point of repetition from my expansion on the description of the tracks:<br />
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>"Intelligence R&D" is a slight modification on the legacy "Scholarly &<br />
>Innovation" track to explore new topics from the world of academia<br />
>and research. Clearly this is the wrong dir…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2008-08-07:2036441:Comment:79822008-08-07T14:59:39.229ZJonathan Calofhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/JonathanCalof
Clearly this is the wrong direction unless you want to alienate your experienced workshop presenters. Let me add another note for comment - the elimination of the Academic track. In one month SCIP has stopped JCIM and now eliminated academic track (and I don't buy an argument on entrepreneurial CI covering scholarly) - professional associations rely on academe for field development - what gives with SCIP? ?
Clearly this is the wrong direction unless you want to alienate your experienced workshop presenters. Let me add another note for comment - the elimination of the Academic track. In one month SCIP has stopped JCIM and now eliminated academic track (and I don't buy an argument on entrepreneurial CI covering scholarly) - professional associations rely on academe for field development - what gives with SCIP? ? Arthur has hit the nail on th…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2008-08-03:2036441:Comment:77002008-08-03T14:53:14.273ZEric Garlandhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/EricGarland
Arthur has hit the nail on the head. SCIP must cultivate the intellectual vitality of the group every way possible to take advantage of coming opportunities (and looming threats.) Instead, the theme offered by the 2009 call for proposals is cost-cutting and de-valuation. It makes no sense. Hopefully, we can encourage people to lead in another direction.<br />
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First, the compensation issue: Of its $2 million annual budget, <b>$1.3 million comes from educational revenue</b>. It completely escapes me…
Arthur has hit the nail on the head. SCIP must cultivate the intellectual vitality of the group every way possible to take advantage of coming opportunities (and looming threats.) Instead, the theme offered by the 2009 call for proposals is cost-cutting and de-valuation. It makes no sense. Hopefully, we can encourage people to lead in another direction.<br />
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First, the compensation issue: Of its $2 million annual budget, <b>$1.3 million comes from educational revenue</b>. It completely escapes me why the national organization would assert that it has been overcompensating its most experienced members who provide that training. These training courses - according to SCIP in its last annual report - account for 66% of the whole operation. I would think you'd want to incentivize professionals to do even <i>more</i> training - so I don't get this move.<br />
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There's a bigger strategic trend at play, however. The need for professional analysis in all organizations, public and private, is going to supernova in the coming years. Between globalization of markets, climate change and general technological advance, strategic challenges are getting radically more complex for organizations. Traditional education (MBA, MPA, Econ, Org Devel.) typically does not cover the broad thinking, rational, intelligence-driven leadership that the 21st century leader <i>must</i> have to navigate complex organizations to success.<br />
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Competitive intelligence has one of the best methodologies to offer the next generation leader - bottom-up data leading to strategic options and thus better decision making. Much of the last generation of leadership focused on process efficiency, cost cutting, and growth of the existing business model. That mindset is proving to be disastrous - ask General Motors how much it costs to stick with your 20th century model. (<i>Answer: about $15 billion a quarter.</i>)<br />
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Add the fundamental need for professional intelligence systems to the looming talent crunch that will come from an unprecedented wave of retirements as the Boom generation begins to head for part-time work or full-time leisure. A whole world of organizations will need a center of excellence for professional intelligence analysis - and SCIP is ideally suited, with decades of history and great professional members.<br />
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Instead of cost cutting, SCIP National needs to be aggressive and positive about meeting these needs - with more publications, more professional training, more online venues - a more vital intellectual environment in every sense.<br />
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That said, if SCIP is not willing to take advantage of these tremendous opportunities, then I see a whole world of intelligence analysts in this Ning group who just might - somehow, somewhere. What started as Arik Johnson's great idea is organically (<i>read: no budget</i>) blossoming into a global, energetic group of professionals.<br />
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The vitality is there. The leadership must rise to meet it.<br />
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So let's keep the dialogue going!<br />
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-Garland Although the focus of this di…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2008-08-03:2036441:Comment:76692008-08-03T02:48:39.672ZArthur Weisshttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/ArthurWeiss
Although the focus of this discussion has been presenter compensation - i think in fact that this is a red-herring. Cuts in speaker compensation packages are just another example of how SCIP is giving less and less value to members.<br />
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When I first joined over 10 years ago, there was a regular magazine / newsletter; active chapter meetings; a professional journal (CI Review) and well attended conferences. Other than the CI Magazine, there is no longer a professional journal - and the SCIP UK…
Although the focus of this discussion has been presenter compensation - i think in fact that this is a red-herring. Cuts in speaker compensation packages are just another example of how SCIP is giving less and less value to members.<br />
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When I first joined over 10 years ago, there was a regular magazine / newsletter; active chapter meetings; a professional journal (CI Review) and well attended conferences. Other than the CI Magazine, there is no longer a professional journal - and the SCIP UK chapter has only recently restarted under the admirable leadership of Andrew Beurschgens. It closed for a period of 2 years - primarily due to SCIP board incompetence in not understanding the needs of UK based members, resulting in a substantial loss in membership in what was at the time, SCIP's largest non-North American chapter.<br />
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When I first joined SCIP there were around 6-7k members. There's now well under half that. The shareholders of any commercial organization that lost 50% of its customers - and continued to lose customers would soon demand strategy changes at board level to revitalize the organization. We are not seeing any such revitalizing effort in SCIP - in fact, with the recent changes, the exact opposite. John said he knew of 4 popular speakers who have said they won't be submitting. I'll make it another. That's probably over 100k being lost to SCIP from professional workshops. (And if you look at my feedback for my workshops, you get 95%+ saying very good or excellent).<br />
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I'm a member of 3 other professional associations, and SCIP is the most expensive and gives me the least.<br />
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As for Colleen's point about speakers in other associations not getting remuneration. Put up and name them. We are not talking about speakers at the conference itself (in which case I'd agree with you) but people preparing professional quality pre-conference workshops. SCIP appears not to want or recognize professionalism - whether at the conference or by including a professional refereed journal as a member benefit.<br />
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In my case, each time I've delivered a workshop I've spent a few days making sure it is up-to-date, and relevant. I'm not going to do that for what SCIP is now offering - an amount I view as an insult.<br />
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If SCIP wants amateurs who do things just for the love of it, they are going the right way to get them. The trouble is that amateurs don't deliver the quality that professionals are paid to give, and that attendees - paying hefty conference fees - have the right to expect. Of course, you will get newcomers willing to do workshops for nearly nowt! However, as the old saying goes, if you pay peanuts, you'll get monkeys. As anybody with sufficient knowledge to lead a full-day workshop, or even half-day, will know their own worth, and be unwilling to put in the preparation time required for only $750 (plus the chance of travel costs, which will be at the whim of some committee, and if not granted could make that $750 shrink to zero if the flights are from outside the US. Hear, hear!! An independent f…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2008-07-31:2036441:Comment:76062008-07-31T18:38:13.695ZSheila Wrighthttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/SheilaWright
Hear, hear!! An independent forum is truly welcome and it has been a long, long time coming. Like other member organisations, it would be good to see SCIP members being consulted, and asked to vote on proposals before they become irreversible decisions. Ask first, then act.
Hear, hear!! An independent forum is truly welcome and it has been a long, long time coming. Like other member organisations, it would be good to see SCIP members being consulted, and asked to vote on proposals before they become irreversible decisions. Ask first, then act. Hi Sheila - indeed you are co…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2008-07-31:2036441:Comment:76042008-07-31T17:38:54.266ZArik Johnsonhttp://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/ArikJohnson
Hi Sheila - indeed you are correct, this site is independent of any sponsoring body (other than Ning itself and the ad revenue it generates from the Google ads on the left side of the homepage) and its members, and, as such, is open to anyone with an interest in CI.<br />
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Further, I've received messages by a few of you that, the specific absence of any such formal organizational allegiances is a key feature of and attraction for this forum. It is dedicated to CI enthusiasts regardless of national…
Hi Sheila - indeed you are correct, this site is independent of any sponsoring body (other than Ning itself and the ad revenue it generates from the Google ads on the left side of the homepage) and its members, and, as such, is open to anyone with an interest in CI.<br />
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Further, I've received messages by a few of you that, the specific absence of any such formal organizational allegiances is a key feature of and attraction for this forum. It is dedicated to CI enthusiasts regardless of national origin, language, level of experience, specific emphasis within the field or ability (or lack thereof) to pay a membership fee (as there is no cost structure to support).<br />
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This includes those friends and colleagues I know so well personally currently engaged here in a debate on an issue of importance to SCIP and its members. I would respectfully submit that, this sort of debate could indeed act as focus group for policy decisions, not only for SCIP, but for other interest groups and organizations with an orientation toward CI enthusiasts.<br />
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All the best,<br />
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- Arik