G2 Annual Conference News

2016 Jim Mathews Award Winners Presentation

2016 Jim Mathews Award Winners Presentation

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 help the…

The Intelligence Shark Tank

The Intelligence Shark Tank

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. Each team has…

2016 Jim Mathews Award Winners Presentation

2016 Jim Mathews Award Winners Presentation

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...

The Intelligence Shark Tank

The Intelligence Shark Tank

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....

Clouds Over the Great Wall: Practicing CI in China’s New Normal

Clouds Over the Great Wall: Practicing CI in China’s New Normal

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...

What is the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in CI?

What is the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in CI?

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....

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...

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,...

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...