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Comment by Klaus Solberg Söilen on October 27, 2009 at 6:44pm

If anyone of you are in the Bay Area this winter and would like to get together let me know. I will be at stanford for another 2 months.

Comment by Alessandro Comai on October 27, 2009 at 5:17pm

Hi Craig, I would like to joint this group.Alessandro

Comment by Craig S. Fleisher on August 3, 2009 at 8:05pm

Job Posting for a Subject Matter Expert in CI for graduate courses at a U.S. university:

Although I don't frequently do this, a job posting I came across a few days ago caught my attention and might be of high interest to our group. I am attaching it, not the least of which because it was so unusual to find someone looking for a graduate level instructor in CI ... the usual caveat applies, that this in no way implies either my implicit or explicit endorsement of either the advertising university or the position.

Established in 1899, South University is a private academic institution dedicated to providing educational opportunities for the intellectual, social and professional development of a diverse student population. South University offers personalized student attention and high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs in business, health professions, and pharmacy across its five campuses and online.

The Subject Matter Expert is responsible for the design and development of online course content in the graduate Competitive Intelligence area. The Subject Matter Expert works closely with a team of South University Academic Affairs personnel, instructional designers, media developers, education experts, and platform developers to create high-quality, outcomes-driven course content within time and resource budget requirements.

As an expert in the Competitive Intelligence topic domain, the Subject Matter Expert develops written deliverables including original course topical content, content for instruction-enhancing media, examples drawn from current professional practice, student assignments, rubrics to assess student assignments, and instructional guidance. In addition, the Subject Matter Expert reviews content developed by the team to ensure that prescribed quality and course objectives are obtained.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

* A terminal degree (e.g., Ph.D. or DBA) in Business, Management, Marketing, or a closely related field, with a specific emphasis and coursework in Competitive Intelligence
* Graduate teaching experience in Competitive Intelligence preferred
* Published academic and/or professional research in Competitive Intelligence preferred
* Industry work experience preferred
* Knowledge of online pedagogy and instructional design preferred
* Ability to balance academic quality and integrity with business imperatives
* Ability to respond positively to creative and content dialog to create stronger, more targeted course content
* Exceptional attention to detail and the drive to meet any and all deadlines in the content development project plan
* Technologically independent (broadband Internet access highly recommended)
* Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Highly organized with strong attention to detail and process
* Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to act effectively as a member of a virtual team and work collaboratively with academic as well as business personnel
* Position is virtually based and must reside within the United States

CONTACT

Interested candidates should send a cover letter (which summarizes interest in the position, educational qualifications, and professional qualifications) and resume (which must include a list of academic programs developed, courses taught and/or developed, and academic research published). Only those candidates who move forward in the process will be contacted and asked to participate in one or more telephone interviews and asked to supply transcripts of all collegiate coursework. Please put "Course SME for Competitive Intelligence" in the subject line of the submission e-mail.

Mr. Gerry Mulligan
Curriculum Development Project Manager
SUOSME@edmc.edu

Application Information
Contact: Mr. Gerry Mulligan
Curriculum Development Project Manager
South University
Email Address: SUOSME@edmc.edu

Comment by Klaus Solberg Söilen on June 8, 2009 at 12:52pm

For anyone interested in the research projects that will be presented at the ECIS 2009 at the end of the week, please see attachment (program).Programm ECIS 2009.pdf

Comment by Avner Barnea on May 21, 2009 at 11:53am

I'm teaching CI in the MBA program of the Ono Academic College in Israel. The feed back from the first year was really good so this course has been already scheduled for the new academic year (Oct. 2009).

Comment by Klaus Solberg Söilen on May 12, 2009 at 8:54am

On the 2nd of July I have a PhD student who is defending her thesis in CI in Paris, Nadege Guenec. You are all most welcome to attend. The topic is "Methodologies pour la creation de connaissance elaborees relatives au marche chinois dans une demarche d'Intelligence Economique". The two other exmainators are Henri Dou, a world leading expert on patents, and Christian Krumeich.

The thesis looks at how to gather economic intelligence through open sources in China with the special case of agricultural biotechnology.

From a sunny Sweden where the rapeseed is now blossoming, Klaus

Comment by Craig S. Fleisher on April 26, 2009 at 1:15pm

Another prominent development in the CI field has recently occurred that should be of high and continuing value to our academic members here at Ning (and beyond). A comprehensive listing of CI scholarship has been produced and made freely available to everyone via the CIMITRI (Competitive Intelligence - Marketing Interface Teaching and Research Initiative - CIMITRI) site at Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, UK (http://www.dmu.ac.uk).

The bibliography, begun originally as a joint research effort by several academics in the CI field including Dr. Paul Dishman (Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, USA), Sheila Wright (Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, UK), Victor Knip (Global Intelligence Alliance, NYC, USA), Robb Tindale, and myself, contains well over three thousand entries (and ever-growing) of relevance and pertinence to CI researchers and scholars. It is organized in a year-by-year fashion, and within each year, further organizes the list by the type of scholarship published (e.g., books, chapters, journal articles, theses and dissertations, etc.). Because it is provided in PDF format, it is search-able using Adobe Acrobat and should be of benefit to anybody writing papers in the field.

For those who want to add articles to the list that they have published, you can do so by bearing in mind the search rationale, statement on inclusions and exclusions, if you are aware of a citation which has been omitted, please send a PDF copy of the article to sheila.wright@dmu.ac.uk with a short statement setting out why you think it should have been included. This will then be considered for inclusion by the authoring team.

I can also tell you from reviewing several of my current graduate students dissertations and theses, that any student who is writing articles in ignorance of the literature will no longer have an excuse that "they didn't realize that someone had written on this or that topic" before. The list is quite comprehensive (I'd suggest it is the most comprehensive one freely available anywhere) and should allow you to identify works that might help illuminate your own research and scholarly efforts. This would be the first place I would send my students to visit when they are embarking on the process of doing research in the CI field. It can help any of us who are teaching in the area or involve din supervising CI writing projects being conducted by students.

You can access the listing at the following: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/business_and_law/business/cimitri/cis/index.jsp

Special thanks to my long-time friend and colleague Sheila Wright for providing this valuable service to our global CI community. It is up to all of us now to leverage and improve it in the future so that it can be a helpful foundation for all of us in the coming years. I hope you'll find it of use and benefit.

Professor Craig S. Fleisher, Moderator of the CI Ning Academics group

Comment by Craig S. Fleisher on April 11, 2009 at 8:37am

For all of you who practice, teach, research or have an interest in the area of Competitive Technical Intelligence, you should keep an eye open for the newest offering being published by the Competitive Intelligence Foundation (CIF). The Competitive Technical Intelligence book, edited by my friends W. Bradford Ashton and Bonnie Hohhof, will include 20 all new chapters and is being released to the public for the first time at SCIP09 in Chicago.

The book is full of valuable contributions from Ning group authors and other long-time CTI/CI contributors like Ellen Naylor, Pat Bryant, Martha Matteo, Alan Porter, Gary Oosta, Kirk Tyson, Jonathan Calof, and Merrill Brenner, to some other rising and shining lights in the field like Gregory Fruchet, Judith Leavitt, and Manjula Nadarajah, among others. I have included the contents of the book below for your information.

Everyone who is in Chicago should make their way to the exhibition area and purchase it from the SCIP bookstore, along with more than a hundred other products that might just tickle your fancy or be of use to you in your CI activities. For those who cannot make it to the SCIP09 meeting, the book can be purchased at the www.scip.org web-site. Like all products available at the site, SCIP members receive a discount from the ordinary price for their purchases.

AUTHOR, CHAPTER TOPIC, Comments

I. CTI TODAY
1. Brad Ashton, Introduction, What is CTI and why important?
2. Nick Bruns, Understanding Technological Change, an overview of basics of tech change for CTI
3. Ellen Naylor,Trends in CTI Effectiveness: Interviews with CTI Experts, based on SME interview results

II. CTI ORGANIZATIONS & OPERATIONS
4. Judith A. Leavitt, The FED Framework©: FOCUS, EXECUTION & DISCIPLINE
5. Merrill Brenner, Evolving Technology Intelligence into Decision Support, a practical discussion based on Air Products & Chemicals
6. Grégory Fruchet, Effective Practices for Implementing CTI in a Large R&D Organization, covers the CTI Program at CISTI
7. Lee Cornell, Using CTI to Support Product Development
8. Martha Matteo, Tales from the Trenches…” Client communication issues that can make-or-break a CTI effort

III. TOOLS and METHODS
9. Craig Fleisher, The Tools CTI Analysts Use: An Overview, briefly summarizes 35 tools used in CTI
10. Alan Porter, Technology Monitoring – Tech Mining
11. Gary Oosta, Patent Mapping Review 2008, a chapter on analysis visualization for patents
12. Barry Brager, How Competitive Intelligence Analysts Can Effectively Assess Patent Value
13. Craig Fleisher & Brad Ashton, Early Warning and CTI
14. John Lauri, Using Technical Experts as Collectors in Biopharmaceuticals, a primary data collection example
15. Jonathan Calof, Event Show Intelligence – Examples Of Successful CTI Collection Projects, provides short case summaries

IV. COMPANY AND INDUSTRY CASES
16. Kirk Tyson, Assessing the impact of a a new technology - A CTI Case Study
17. Manjula Nadarajah, CTI and Technology Mapping for Strategic Decision-Making, an example at Shell Production
18. Debra Mills, Identifying Technology Research Nodes: A Case Study, an example of finding R&D organizations for ONR
19. Pat Bryant & Brad Ashton, Competitive Technology Forecasting in Pharmaceuticals

V. CONCLUSION
20. Brad Ashton & Ellen Naylor, CTI: THE FUTURE, based on SME interview results

Comment by Craig S. Fleisher on March 3, 2009 at 7:48am

Dear CI Ning Academics: The next EBRF conference is being held in Jyvaskyla, Finland on September 23-25, 2009. I have attached a "call for papers" to the meeting in hopes that some of you will consider submitting your ideas for the "Business and Competitive Intelligence" track that I co-chair with my good friend Mika Hannula at Tampere University of Technology. Abstracts are due by 30 April, giving you plenty of time to get something prepared and submitted.
EBRF 2009 Call.pdf
I have been attending this meeting for most of the past decade, and can tell you that every year a number of high quality BI and CI papers and research are offered. I can't imagine why this year would be any different, and would encourage you to consider submitting if you have something that would "fit" our meeting. The overall theme of the meeting is "Emergent drivers of shared business models in globalizing ecosystems," so we would particularly welcome anyone who is doing research on the development of management of networks (social, professional, corporate and otherwise) within BI/CI, cooperative relationships, business model implications, applied strategy in a global context, BI/CI within various ecosystems, partnership arrangements between corporate entities and consultants, and the like. Please feel free to send me any questions or ask for ideas if you are unsure as to the suitability of a potential topic.

The conference information can be found at the following web-site: www.ebrf.fi

Thanks for considering EBRF 2009 in your upcoming plans!

Comment by Rainer Michaeli on November 16, 2008 at 6:39pm

Michael,

indeed I share your feelings about the JCIM and SCIP's communication behaviour. Afterall it took them 6 long months to update their website in order to delete the former editors from their JCIM site.
Guess one can not hope that a solution has been found already and it just takes another 6 months to get it on, right?

If you should miss academic intelligence folk & publications, check out www.iafie.org. I joined last year to find my membership worthwile.

Best

Rainer

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