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April 14 – 17, 2008, San Diego, California
SCIP’s 2008 International Annual Conference & Exhibition is your opportunity to enhance your skills and increase your value. You can select from more than 70 sessions divided among five key tracks of education necessary for the competitive intelligence professional. In addition, you will have access to pre- and post-conference workshops for more intensive and hands-on professional development.
The Five Tracks of Education Include:
- CI Offense–provides you with tools and techniques that help grow the business including technology, alliances, and new markets.
- CI Defense–protects your business by identifying emerging/
latent threats, defensive strategies, economic espionage, early warning systems, and the role CI plays in threat awareness.
- Critical Skills–develops core capabilities and skills for practitioners to develop skills in research planning, data collection, analysis, delivery/dissemination, and utilization by management.
- Professional Effectiveness–increases skills that are not found expressly in your job description: managing projects and resources, dealing with management and internal clients, and navigating though our organization's unique structure, culture, and politics.
- Scholarly Research & Innovation–examines cutting edge new research as well as techniques for educating professionals.
Registrants Receive:
- Access to 17 pre-conference workshops
- Insightful keynote session that will explore a simple, yet profound idea for those who seek to gather intelligence.
- Mark Penn’s book, “Microtrends: the small forces behind tomorrow’s big changes”—Complimentary for full registrants!
- 70+ informative sessions divided among five key tracks of education
- Exposure to 80+ CI vendors and consultants
- Two great networking receptions
- Awards and Recognition Program
- Conference materials on a convenient CD that you can use immediately.
- Continental breakfast and lunch each day for two days
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