Borderless CI
SLA annual conference, Vancouver
Sunday, June 8, 2014, 11:45AM
#BorderlessCI
Sponsored by SLA Competitive Intelligence Division
Co-sponsored by Business & Finance Division and the International Information Exchange
Caucus
The global nature of business today means that every CI professional needs to know not
only the sources/systems/services that help them monitor industries and companies in
other nations, but master the complexities associated with working in those countries and
competing with organizations on the global stage. This session brings together CI
practitioners from around the world to share their experiences through an exchange – a
dialogue. The session, designed as a conversation—no PowerPoints here – just expertly
crafted and refined questions crowdsourced from the membership about issues that
concern and confront them every day: the penetration of CI, designed to contrast
differences among regions (and even countries within each region) and industries in those
regions; education and training of CI professional; tools and techniques employed most
frequently; cultural sensitivities that make CI challenging (and tips to overcome them); and
more.
Moderator:
Barbie Keiser, President, Barbie E. Keiser, Inc.
Barbie.Keiser@gmail.com or BKeiser1@jhu.edu
@bekinc
Barbie Keiser is an information resources management (IRM) consultant
located in the metro-Washington, DC area, where she is an adjunct at the
Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, teaching Competitive
Intelligence and Knowledge Management. For the past 25 years, Barbie has
been working with libraries around the world as a change agent, transforming
traditional institutions into modern information centers. An active SLA member, Barbie is
currently the International Relations chair for the CI Division.
Panelists:
Phani Tej Adidam (padidam@unomaha.edu) is the Executive Education Professor of
Business Administration at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He is also the Director of the
Center for International Business Initiatives at UNO. Professor Adidam's research interests
include marketing strategy, competitive intelligence, brand management and sales
management. His work is published in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing
Management, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, Journal of Business and Industrial
Marketing, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, Journal of Consumer Behavior, and Journal of
Business and Policy Research, among others. His work was awarded the Journal of
Marketing's Marketing Science Institute/H. Paul Root Award for ''...most significant
contribution to the advancement of the practice of marketing'' for 1999. He is a Fellow of
the Academy of Marketing Science.
Professor Adidam is also on the faculty of the Aalto University School of Business in Finland,
Management Center Innsbruck in Austria, Misr International University in Egypt, and has
taught at more than 12 business schools around the world. Professor Adidam teaches
International Marketing, International Management, Brand Management, Sales
Management, and Marketing Strategy to BSBA, MBA and Executive MBA students. His
teaching interest also includes Competitive Intelligence and Strategic Thinking. Students in
the Executive MBA program have awarded him the Distinguished Executive MBA Professor
Award in 2012, 2010, 2008, 2005, 2004 and 2000. In 2000, he also received the Outstanding
MBA Professor of the Year Award. In 2008, he received the University-wide Excellence in
Teaching Award, and in 2007, he received the UNO Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award.
Before entering academe, Professor Adidam developed, marketed, and implemented
application software systems for global companies.
Jonathan Calof (Calof@telfer.uottawa.ca) is a professor of International
Business and Strategy at the Telfer School of Management at the University
of Ottawa, and co-director of the Telfers Business analytics-and
Performance management area, Dr. Calof combines research and consulting
in competitive intelligence, technical foresight and business analytics.
A member of the Travellers century club, Jonathan’s research and consulting activities have
taken him around the world. He has given over 1000 speeches, seminars and keynote
addresses around the world on intelligence and foresight and has helped several companies
and government agencies around the world enhance their intelligence, foresight and
business analytics capabilities. In recognition of his contribution to making fact based
decision making a reality, Jonathan has been given several honours including Frost and
Sullivan’s life time achievement award in competitive intelligence; Fellow award from the
Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals; Honorary Professor at Yunnan Normal
University in China; Appointment to the international advisory board for the Russian
Foresight Committee of HSE; Appointment to the international advisory board for Malaysia
Foresight, Honorary member of the Russian Society of Competitive Intelligence
Professional; Board of advisors for the Centre en Intelligence Economique et Management
Stratégique(CIE'MS/Center for Competitive Intelligence and Strategic Management in
Morocco.
He is a prolific author with over 150 publications to his credit. As well, Jonathan is the
author and co-editor of several books on competitive intelligence including co-editor of the
Competitive Intelligence Foundation’s Conference and Trade Show Intelligence book. He
also pens a column on event intelligence for competitive intelligence magazine. In addition
to his involvement in the consulting and academic world, Dr. Calof is also a director with,
RoboCoder, a Canadian software company and Success Nexus, a Malaysian biofuel company.
Adeline du Toit (adeline.dutoit@up.ac.za) is an extra ordinary professor
at the University of Pretoria. Before this she was head of the Department
of Information and Knowledge Management at the University of
Johannesburg. She published 85 articles in peer-reviewed journals and
five chapters in books. She presented 37 papers at international
conferences and 34 papers at South African conferences. She is a board
member of the International Council for Knowledge Management and on the editorial board
of six international journals and one South African journal. She was the first person in South
Africa to publish a peer-reviewed article on competitive intelligence in 1990 and also the
first person to teach competitive intelligence in South Africa. She is the founder of the SCIP
South African Chapter and was chair of this chapter for two years. She received the SCIP
Catalyst Award in 2014, is a member of the scientific committee of the Competitive
Intelligence and Strategic Management Centre in Morocco, and was listed in the publication
2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, published by Melrose Press in 2003.
Current research includes a book on South African knowledge management case studies
and a book on South African competitive intelligence case studies.
Scott Leeb (scott_leeb@yahoo.com) is the Managing Director, Knowledge Management for
the Rockefeller Foundation, whose philanthropic mission is to promote
the well-being of people throughout the world. In this position, he is
responsible for implementing and managing a centralized function for
gathering and accessing all of the Rockefeller Foundation’s extensive
information resources to ensure that collective knowledge capital is
leveraged to support the Foundation’s operations. Prior to this, Scott
created and managed the global business intelligence programs at
Prudential Retirement (financial services), The McGraw-Hill Companies
(a publishing and media company), KPMG (a professional services firm)
and Ingram Micro (a Fortune 100 technology firm). In 2011 he served as President of SCIP,
a 2500+ member global organization of choice for professionals engaged in competitive
intelligence and related disciplines.
Scott has spoken in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America on a wide
range of topics including competitive intelligence, business intelligence, market intelligence,
strategy and knowledge management. He began his career as a senior intelligence analyst
for the US Army, specializing in East Asian political-military affairs. Scott holds MAs from
The Australian National University and Columbia University, a BA from Yale University and
a language certificate from Beijing University.
Annie Joan Olesen (ajo@a9.dk) has operated an independent business as a competitive
intelligence and market research specialist in Denmark since 1999. Prior to establishing
that business, she created and managed the Information Center at
Danfoss, a prominent international specialty manufacturing firm with
headquarters in Denmark and 20,000+ employees worldwide. She
developed a state of the art information center whose 10 specialists
contributed significantly to Danfoss' overall information operations and
participated in a variety of business development projects.
Annie is a lecturer and external examiner at the Royal School of Library and Information
Science in Copenhagen. She has contributed to academic text books and is a popular
speaker at information management related conferences. She has served on the Board of
the Danish Association of Information and Documentation and is widely recognized among
her peers as a leading expert in Knowledge Management.