Use Financial Early Warning Indicators to Understand Competitor KPIs

Use Financial Early Warning Indicators to Understand Competitor KPIs

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 finance Case...
Manage the Present, Invent the Future

Manage the Present, Invent the Future

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, “Manage the...
Predicting the Present: Strategic Learning to Anticipate and Iterate

Predicting the Present: Strategic Learning to Anticipate and Iterate

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 conversations as...
Using High Performing Teams to Gain Early Advantage

Using High Performing Teams to Gain Early Advantage

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 people. It costs...
Wargaming: Training the Facilitator

Wargaming: Training the Facilitator

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 surrounded “training...