August 26, 2004
Sydney Australia: 2-Day CI Workshop
Today and tomorrow, I’m in Sydney Australia doing a two-day workshop on Competitive Intelligence to a mixed group of participants, chiefly interested in building new or improving existing CI functional processes inside their firms. We’ve got a very diverse group, but they tend to fall into three categories – high-technology, banking/finance and a third “everything else”… not atypical, but for my first trip to Oz, it’s been an interesting introduction to the region’s economy. It’s widely believed elections will be called here and one of the subjects sure to be on the minds of voters has to do with the outsourcing trend that’s taken the world by storm and which Australia is both benefiting and suffering from, depending on whom you ask.
Anyhow, here’re my slides if anyone’s interested, otherwise, I’m having a great time here (getting out a bit to see the countryside over the weekend); but I hope to avoid the fate of the survivors on the upcoming TV series “Lost” that I just heard will be premiering next month – a crash-landing at sea on a flight from Sydney to LA, I believe…
- Arik
Posted by Arik Johnson at August 26, 2004 11:41 AM | TrackBack
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