RECONVERGE Blog

Dr. Craig Fleisher introduced Nhi Tran and Joshua Bailey as this year’s Jim Mathews award winners; these students provide a compelling glimpse at the future of CI. Background of the award: Jim Mathews was very serious about reaching out to CI students to...

This favorite RECONVERGE:G2 session returns! The Shark Tank is a process during which teams representing a variety of companies defend an intelligence function proposal at their organizations to three judges who will either accept or reject their ideas....

CI analysis and the need for CI is great in a country where many products exist in mature stages of lifecycles. CI become a business tool in China during the 1970s. Dr. Tao was a founding member of the society of competitive intelligence in China, and has...

Do you know your CI strategy when it comes to technology? Terry Thiele of the Lubrizol Corporation and Ed Allison of Compelligence engaged in a lively debate surrounding tactical vs strategic approaches in CI and the impact of technology on the profession....

Raleen Gagnon joined the slate of speakers Wednesday afternoon in a discussion surrounding how best to capitalize on intelligence functions. Agenda How are intelligence functions leveraged today? How do those functions align for greater impact? What’s the...

Ryan Macumber of Best Buy delivered the final presentation at Aurora WDC’s RECONVERGE:G2 conference on Wednesday, and its focus was the use of financial analysis as a device in the CI pro’s toolkit. Agenda Background Why finance How you can work with...

CI leaders will overcome challenges by developing trust and respect through engagement at all levels of the organization RECONVERGE:G2 started Thursday morning April 21 with a look ahead as Mike Suchsland of Joplin Consulting delivered his presentation,...

If you want to know where you’re going, look at what’s happening now. Nova Spivack of Bottlenose continued Thursday’s presentations with his talk about “predicting the present” and spoke about technologies to impact CI; he also reflected upon previous...

Gaining an early advantage can be obtained when practitioners generate a hypothesis. Alfred Reszka spoke to RECONVERGE:G2 attendees on Thursday about how to use high performance teams to gain an early advantage; it is important to make investments in...

The function of a war game is to determine plans; failure to act on discoveries is time and money wasted. Aurora WDC’s own Tim Smith discussed business wargaming in the final session of Tuesday’s RECONVERGE: G2 program. The scope of the discussion...