Events

Join Arik Johnson from Aurora WDC for this exclusive 90-minute online event, hosted by the Center for Business Intelligence and featuring leaders from three of the top competitive intelligence software vendors - Comintell, Digimind and Traction - as they train you on lessons learned from case studies of best practices in solving technology driven intelligence problems from the healthcare and life science sector and how they used intelligence software systems to understand risk, create value, and drive performance and success.

Wednesday, April 15, beginning at 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific time, Derek Johnson, Aurora WDC Director of Research and Chief Operating Officer, will be host of our next live, free 75-minute webinar, featuring Dr. Niall Fraser Co-Founder and Principal Scientist of Open Options Corporation entitled “Three Rules for Getting Buy-In from Senior Management and Developing Superior Strategies from Human Capital” 

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In large organizations, the direct use of quantitative information is often limited to relatively routine operational decisions. High-level strategic issues, on the other hand, are commonly decided primarily by the informed experience and intuition of corporate leadership. There is clearly a hierarchy - data professionals are the suppliers of data to the people who actually make the decisions.

This can be a bad idea. Experience and intuition have limitations that data can supplement, and vice versa. If a deep understanding of data does not directly inform corporate strategic decisions, human error is more likely. Personality and politics can intervene, for example, or things can just be too complex for the mind to deal with effectively. When a firm's fundamental strategic issues are involved, such errors can be disastrous.

In order to make the best decisions possible, organizations need to corral all of their deep knowledge, including hard data, soft data, opinion, intuition, street smarts and gut feel. This seminar shows how a well-designed decision process can do this in a very effective way. The significant characteristics of such a process are clearly explained in this seminar.

Key take-aways from this session include:

-An understanding of how different personalities and different sources of knowledge contribute to good decisions in an organization   

-Clarity on the characteristics of a process to bring qualitative and quantitative knowledge to bear on difficult decisions 

-Insight into how key elements of a well designed decision process allows for effective decisions to be made about complex multi-participant issues 

“Adversity does not build character. Adversity reveals character.”  - Vince Lombardi
 

It is with great excitement that I send this early welcome to those of you already registered for SCIP’s 2009 International Conference and Exhibition. For those of you not yet registered, I hope you will consider SCIP’s conference for the many different value-added activities you will have access to in Chicago.

Whether you are a SCIP veteran that attends every year, someone on a rotating schedule, or at SCIP for the first time, I think you will be impressed by our program this year, and I invite you to provide feedback directly to me regarding your SCIP09 experience. We have five educational tracks designed to offer you a variety of beginner to advanced exposure to ways in which you can execute on intelligence initiatives, along with several excellent half- and full-day workshops I hope you can leverage.

Our keynote speaker this year is Michael Treacy. He has spent his career advising organizations on what it takes to be a market leader, and I expect he will provide you with insights that will allow you to have an immediate impact on your organization. Outside of an excellent educational program and keynote, there are many other reasons why you come to this conference, from networking with your peers to evaluating the many capable vendors that can act as partners to your initiatives. Enjoy these benefits and the many other intangibles that SCIP Chicago has to offer.

Finally, it is in this economic climate that we are reminded of exactly how quickly things can change. Fortunate for all of us, the ability to adapt to change is one characteristic that makes you a great intelligence professional. In the past few months, I have witnessed a number of announcements that have caused me to take notice – from seeing long-tenured intelligence officers displaced from their jobs, to seeing several Fortune 500 firms receive new mandates to build enhanced intelligence capabilities.

Your peers at this conference will challenge your intellect and your energy level, but the many forms of adversity we encounter as intelligence professionals truly do reveal our character. Let’s make it a memorable SCIP09!

Derek Johnson

SCIP09 Conference Chair

Aurora WDC COO & Director of Research

“Adversity does not build character. Adversity reveals character.”  - Vince Lombardi
 

It is with great excitement that I send this early welcome to those of you already registered for SCIP’s 2009 International Conference and Exhibition. For those of you not yet registered, I hope you will consider SCIP’s conference for the many different value-added activities you will have access to in Chicago.

Whether you are a SCIP veteran that attends every year, someone on a rotating schedule, or at SCIP for the first time, I think you will be impressed by our program this year, and I invite you to provide feedback directly to me regarding your SCIP09 experience. We have five educational tracks designed to offer you a variety of beginner to advanced exposure to ways in which you can execute on intelligence initiatives, along with several excellent half- and full-day workshops I hope you can leverage.

Our keynote speaker this year is Michael Treacy. He has spent his career advising organizations on what it takes to be a market leader, and I expect he will provide you with insights that will allow you to have an immediate impact on your organization. Outside of an excellent educational program and keynote, there are many other reasons why you come to this conference, from networking with your peers to evaluating the many capable vendors that can act as partners to your initiatives. Enjoy these benefits and the many other intangibles that SCIP Chicago has to offer.

Finally, it is in this economic climate that we are reminded of exactly how quickly things can change. Fortunate for all of us, the ability to adapt to change is one characteristic that makes you a great intelligence professional. In the past few months, I have witnessed a number of announcements that have caused me to take notice – from seeing long-tenured intelligence officers displaced from their jobs, to seeing several Fortune 500 firms receive new mandates to build enhanced intelligence capabilities.

Your peers at this conference will challenge your intellect and your energy level, but the many forms of adversity we encounter as intelligence professionals truly do reveal our character. Let’s make it a memorable SCIP09!

Derek Johnson

SCIP09 Conference Chair

Aurora WDC COO & Director of Research

“Adversity does not build character. Adversity reveals character.”  - Vince Lombardi
 

It is with great excitement that I send this early welcome to those of you already registered for SCIP’s 2009 International Conference and Exhibition. For those of you not yet registered, I hope you will consider SCIP’s conference for the many different value-added activities you will have access to in Chicago.

Whether you are a SCIP veteran that attends every year, someone on a rotating schedule, or at SCIP for the first time, I think you will be impressed by our program this year, and I invite you to provide feedback directly to me regarding your SCIP09 experience. We have five educational tracks designed to offer you a variety of beginner to advanced exposure to ways in which you can execute on intelligence initiatives, along with several excellent half- and full-day workshops I hope you can leverage.

Our keynote speaker this year is Michael Treacy. He has spent his career advising organizations on what it takes to be a market leader, and I expect he will provide you with insights that will allow you to have an immediate impact on your organization. Outside of an excellent educational program and keynote, there are many other reasons why you come to this conference, from networking with your peers to evaluating the many capable vendors that can act as partners to your initiatives. Enjoy these benefits and the many other intangibles that SCIP Chicago has to offer.

Finally, it is in this economic climate that we are reminded of exactly how quickly things can change. Fortunate for all of us, the ability to adapt to change is one characteristic that makes you a great intelligence professional. In the past few months, I have witnessed a number of announcements that have caused me to take notice – from seeing long-tenured intelligence officers displaced from their jobs, to seeing several Fortune 500 firms receive new mandates to build enhanced intelligence capabilities.

Your peers at this conference will challenge your intellect and your energy level, but the many forms of adversity we encounter as intelligence professionals truly do reveal our character. Let’s make it a memorable SCIP09!

Derek Johnson

SCIP09 Conference Chair

Aurora WDC COO & Director of Research

“Adversity does not build character. Adversity reveals character.”  - Vince Lombardi
 

It is with great excitement that I send this early welcome to those of you already registered for SCIP’s 2009 International Conference and Exhibition. For those of you not yet registered, I hope you will consider SCIP’s conference for the many different value-added activities you will have access to in Chicago.

Whether you are a SCIP veteran that attends every year, someone on a rotating schedule, or at SCIP for the first time, I think you will be impressed by our program this year, and I invite you to provide feedback directly to me regarding your SCIP09 experience. We have five educational tracks designed to offer you a variety of beginner to advanced exposure to ways in which you can execute on intelligence initiatives, along with several excellent half- and full-day workshops I hope you can leverage.

Our keynote speaker this year is Michael Treacy. He has spent his career advising organizations on what it takes to be a market leader, and I expect he will provide you with insights that will allow you to have an immediate impact on your organization. Outside of an excellent educational program and keynote, there are many other reasons why you come to this conference, from networking with your peers to evaluating the many capable vendors that can act as partners to your initiatives. Enjoy these benefits and the many other intangibles that SCIP Chicago has to offer.

Finally, it is in this economic climate that we are reminded of exactly how quickly things can change. Fortunate for all of us, the ability to adapt to change is one characteristic that makes you a great intelligence professional. In the past few months, I have witnessed a number of announcements that have caused me to take notice – from seeing long-tenured intelligence officers displaced from their jobs, to seeing several Fortune 500 firms receive new mandates to build enhanced intelligence capabilities.

Your peers at this conference will challenge your intellect and your energy level, but the many forms of adversity we encounter as intelligence professionals truly do reveal our character. Let’s make it a memorable SCIP09!

Derek Johnson

SCIP09 Conference Chair

Aurora WDC COO & Director of Research