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Small businesses have something to look forward to as they set their business goals for the next year. StrategyVP.com is the world's first decision engine that matches business strategies with business goals.

The SCIP Board of Directors elected Melanie Wing, Vice President, Strategic Marketing at Equifax as the 2013 Board Chair.

Effective January 7, 2013, Nan Bulger, formerly Senior Director of Strategic Planning, Market and Business Intelligence for Philips Healthcare, becomes the SCIP Executive Director.

Voted into a 2013-2015 term, Sean Campbell of Cascade Insights brings an entrepreneurial and solution provider perspective to the SCIP Board.

In advance of an anticipated peak performance whitepaper, Marble Arch Consultants, Inc. has partnered with The Moxie Institute to produce a video challenging viewers to get off the sidelines and start living for something larger than themselves.

Mike Molnar, Associate director of Competitive Intelligence at Genentech was elected by the SCIP membership to a 2013-2015 term on the Board of Directors.

The SCIP membership elected Zena Applebaum, Manager of Intelligence & Intranet at Bennett Jones LLP, a leading international law firm based in Canada. Her board term will run 2013 through 2015.

The SCIP Board of Directors elected August Jackson, Associate Director of Strategic Market Intelligence at Ernst & Young, as the 2013 Board Vice-Chair. He will become SCIP’s Board Chair in 2014.

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Join us at the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals’ 2013 conference. Just released: the preliminary program. Choose from over 60 sessions presented by intelligence leaders at the world’s largest intelligence conference.

Jan Herring, a former CIA officer and director of intelligence at Motorola, will show how to develop a competitive intelligence function that leads to improved competitiveness, better decision-making, and effective strategic planning.

The Danish software company ValueMaker has launched a new video-based web site. The videos will make it easier and faster for visitors to understand the disruptive approach Valuemaker is providing for strategy review and execution.

CEO of NYC-based strategic design firm recognized by The Internationalist for innovation in international branding and marketing

This holiday season, Pulse Marketing Agency of Bangor, ME, launches a new program to give back to the local community. Pulse is offering free daily marketing clinics to help local small entrepreneurs get a jump on their business growth in 2013.

Vince Rogers' article Building Your Brand as a Consultant by Utilizing the “Keys to Success” is featured as the Cutting Edge Topic in the 2013 Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting. The article is referred to by the publisher as a “must-read article”.

The holiday shopping season isn’t just for retailers? Service-based businesses can learn three can't miss holiday marketing strategies for more sales this holiday season through webinar training on 11/27/12.

paul-lawrence associates recruits Wouter Broekema as Executive Director Product Strategy and Development for Circles. Circles, a subsidiary of Sodexo, is the leading provider of concierge and personal assistance services in the U.S.

Alco-Checkpoint shares its strategy in DIY vending machine placement and locating. A simple strategy that anyone can use to find locations for their vending machines.

Mark F. Weiss of Advisory Law Group will present a webinar on November 29, 2012, for hospital-based physician group leaders on why their groups must adopt a new contracting strategy in light of communal trends in healthcare and in society in general.

Don't miss your copy of the FREE newsletter for the professional coaching and mentoring body in SA. October 2012's topic will be The Life Coach, with articles by leading practitioners.Go to www.comensa.org.za to subscribe

The First Coast Manufacturers Association in Jacksonville, Florida will be conducting a half day forum November 5th to discuss the financial and strategic issues facing manufacturing.

The variety of individuals attending the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) European Summit reflect the impact and depth that intelligence has on corporate decision making.

This week’s news from Burger King perfectly highlights why the brand has been struggling for so long – Burger King engages ad agencies in a shoot-out to look for a new brand positioning strategy. This is brand suicide

Bill Reed, Managing Director And Co-Founder, Aventi Group, Discusses How To Sink The Competition Utilizing Torpedo Product Marketing Strategies

Working through a rigorous process fed by the right information, mega-trend research can have a real “outcome based” impact. Richard Sear provides thought-provoking illustrations on how technology developments can impact life.

Grimsley, Owner and Creative Director of Above Promotions Company and business speaker releases her new book, Because You're Small: Effective Marketing Strategies for Immediate Implementation.

alliance with Robbins-Gioia provides both companies to additional services and resources

World Premiere: e-Deliberation.com launched its sparkling new site today (Oct 1, 2012). e‑Deliberation™ has deployed a secure online network designed to support collaborative deliberation and resolve difficult issues.

Competitive intelligence tools can help gain a better understanding of how to look at adjacent markets for new opportunities and threats based on competitive levels and traditional market assessment tools. SCIP eLearning chapter meetings.

Social Money 101 will present a panel discussion that teaches businesses owners and entrepreneurs to use social media tools effectively to make sales, build their online presence and communicate with existing and future customers.

Discover how companies use trade shows to gather competitive intelligence, understand best practices, and learn new ways to maximize the CI impact of trade show efforts during this complementary live eBroadcast

A Premier Business & Deal Driven Event Including our 9th Western Africa: Strategy Briefing 19th West Africa Oil, Gas and Energy Conference

Including our 9th Latin Petroleum Strategy Briefing and 19th Latin Upstream Conference Location: Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Copacabana, Brazil Date:15 - 17 May 2013

Sun Tzu and the Art of Litigation by Nigel Morris-Cotterill, Head, The Anti Money Laundering Network, is now available in many countries via the Amazon.Com group of sites and a wide network of booksellers

Novariant, Inc., a premier provider of steering solutions for precision agriculture, announced today its decision to focus its business on providing tailored solutions for OEM partners across the globe.

So we are in a recession, perhaps even a double dip recession. It’s like being becalmed on a boat at sea. No wind, no current, no movement of any sort. What do you do? Here are 99 tips...

The Massachusetts chapter of Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Prof (SCIP) presents a free-wheeling discussion of practical CI ideas at its Wednesday, Sept. 19 meeting from 5:30pm to 8:00pm at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge Ma.

It is often said that as an ad agency, USFI is Dallas’s best-kept secret, and this may prove true as USFI selectively on-boards clients and looks to retain customers for life.

The DC Metro chapter of Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) presents speaker Ellen Naylor at their Tuesday, September 18 meeting from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at Northrup Grumman in McLean Va.

Elite Research announces key strategies for market research. Elite Research is a global provider of research design and statistical consulting. They support academic, corporate, medical/health, and non-profit researchers.

The call for workshop and session proposals for the 28th annual SCIP international conference in Orlando is open until September 23.

49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Conference of North American Studies will take place in Birmingham, United Kingdom on 7 Sep 2012.

Antoine Loup Receives Negotiation and Conflict Management Certification from the USIP

Prabhakar Gopalan, Austin's Expert On Strategy, Discusses Ideas On Applications Of Gestalt Perception To Product Strategy

David Fradin, President, Digital Enterprises, Discusses Product Management Factors That Produce Substantially More Successful Products

Roger Phelps provides insight into effective primary intelligence gathering at the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence (SCIP) Western New York Chapter luncheon meeting on Wednesday, August 29 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm at Paychex in Rochester, NY.

The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council certified Dorrier Underwood as a Women’s Business Enterprise. Dorrier Underwood is a management consulting firm that specializes in organizational consulting and executive development.

The Silicon Valley Chapter of Strategic and Competitive Intelligence professionals (SCIP) presents speaker Mark Chussil at their Wednesday, September 12 meeting, 6-8 pm at the Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara CA.

Numerical Insights LLC. is proud to support Juvenile Diabetes research by donating $5.00 from each book sale.

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