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1:30pm - 2:30pm Concurrent Tracks<br />

Choose one of the following interactive sessions or executive insight presentations<br />

during this time frame:<br />

Track 1 - B Multi Scenario Planning<br />

David Conley<br />

Innovation Program Manager<br />

Intel<br />

Principal, Innomation LLC<br />

✪ Veteran Exposure<br />

Executive Insight Presentation<br />

Limited Seating<br />

Planning for multiple scenarios often requires the analysis of, and reaction to, conflicting guidance<br />

and direction. The source of conflicting information and requirements can come from any<br />

number of sources including: scenario requirements themselves, differing needs of sectors,<br />

contradictions between sectors, and any other number of other sources. This session sets the<br />

stage for empowering you to take fundamental scenario planning to the next level.<br />

Key Take-Aways:<br />

g A fresh perspective on the key to effective multi-scenario planning<br />

g Best practices for identifying and organizing contradictory requirements<br />

g Analytical methods for use in effectively modeling multiple scenarios with a focus on the<br />

resolution of conflicting requirements<br />

Track 2 - A How Wide is Your Moat? Assessing Competitive<br />

Advantage<br />

Facilitator:<br />

Danielle Lorenzi<br />

Lead Business Intelligence Analyst<br />

Lorenzi Consulting, LLC<br />

◆ Early Exposure<br />

Interactive<br />

Limited Seating<br />

How sustainable is your competitive advantage? Revenue and profits are up, yet is your<br />

company ready for continued success? Participants will gain insight on how to access the<br />

sustainability of a company’s competitive advantage. You will walk away with tools on how to<br />

identify and rank resources that are key to your company’s survival and assess the sustainability<br />

of those resources. You will have an action plan on how to assess competitive advantage,<br />

identifying gaps where executives need to “shore up your company’s moat.”<br />

Case studies will be used to illustrate methods discussed.<br />

Key Take-Aways:<br />

g Corporate Strategy Framework<br />

g An understanding of resource attributes for a sustainable competitive advantage<br />

g A methodology to access the sustainability of competitive advantage<br />

Track 2 - B Increasing Objectivity in Indicator & Warning<br />

Analysis – a New Methodology<br />

Nimalan Paul Shelly Freyn<br />

Experienced Commercial Leader Assistant Professor<br />

General Electric Co. Mercyhurst College<br />

✪ Veteran Exposure<br />

Executive Insight Presentation<br />

Limited Seating<br />

A key objective of the competitive intelligence function is to provide top management with<br />

advance information on potential threats to the firm’s market position and on potential market<br />

opportunities. An effective tool towards fulfilling this two-pronged objective is Indicators and<br />

Warning (I&W) analysis. However, in this day and age where one is overloaded with information,<br />

there is a significant challenge in prioritizing and dealing with the available information objectively.<br />

This session will introduce a structured approach to enable prioritization and increase objectivity<br />

using the STEEP framework and Analysis of competing hypotheses (ACH) to enhance the<br />

effectiveness of I&W analysis.<br />

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AGENDA Wednesday<br />

Key Take-Aways:<br />

g A tool to identify and monitor key indicators and avoid getting overloaded with<br />

information<br />

g A collection plan to gather information related to the defined indicators and determine<br />

the level of threat based on analysis of the information collected<br />

g A method to establish an audit trail, which enables analysts and decision makers to see<br />

how a particular analyst conclusion was reached<br />

Track 3 - A How Technology is Revolutionizing the Art and<br />

Practice of CI<br />

Facilitator:<br />

Karen Rothwell<br />

Vice President, Consulting Practice<br />

Outward Insights<br />

◆ Early Exposure<br />

Interactive<br />

Limited Seating<br />

This interactive session will explore the changing landscape of the competitive intelligence<br />

discipline resulting from the growth of powerful technology tools. It will challenge some of the<br />

prevailing wisdom about the role that technology will play in the future of CI and will advocate<br />

for a greater reliance on the automation and indexing that new software platforms make possible.<br />

The session will focus on how we’ve been able to reduce the time commitment associated with<br />

traditional, labor intensive CI activities.<br />

Key Take-Aways:<br />

g Insights on the impacts that technology is likely to play in CI in the coming years and the<br />

way it will shape not only what CI functions can accomplish, but also the very nature of<br />

the way they function and are designed<br />

g Simple and proven tips for integrating technology into new and existing workflows with<br />

an emphasis on understanding the advantage that firms can accrue from the strategic use<br />

of CI technology<br />

g Real world examples of how technology can often reduce analyst work loads and in<br />

some cases replace entirely traditional CI tasks, freeing analyst to provide higher order<br />

benefits and analysis<br />

Track 3 - B Wikis in Intelligence: The Good, the Bad, the<br />

Reality<br />

Kristan Wheaton<br />

Associate Professor<br />

Mercyhurst College<br />

◆ Early Exposure<br />

Executive Insight Presentation<br />

Limited Seating<br />

With more than 100 strategic intelligence projects utilizing wikis to both manage the process<br />

and to produce the final report as its basis, this presentation condenses that experience into<br />

12 essential lessons learned for intelligence practitioners. Wikis have proven to be extremely<br />

valuable collaborative tools appropriate for a whole range of business uses. This presentation<br />

will focus on both the good and the bad of wikis in intelligence. Attendees will gain an<br />

evidence-based appreciation for the realities facing any analyst who seeks to use wikis to<br />

manage an intelligence project or produce an intelligence product.<br />

Key Take-Aways:<br />

g Insight on what is a wiki and why is it important to intelligence professionals<br />

g Recommendations for when to use (and when not to use) a wiki to produce<br />

intelligence products<br />

g Concrete ways to maximize the impact of wiki-based products with decision makers<br />

SCIP 2012 | www.scip.org

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