What’s New from Helicon
Upcoming Free Webinar
Free Webinar
The Helicon Group will be offering a free webinar on the basics of protecting your company against competitive intelligence from September 14-21, 2009. For additional details, click here.
New CI Insurance Capability Announced
September 2008: The Helicon Group is pleased to announce that it is now making available to its clients a unique service – the ability to get life/health and A&H filings from state departments of insurance. For additional details, click here.
Recent
Books from The Helicon Group’s Partners
August
2008: The Helicon Group’s partners are contributors to the newly released Starting
a Competitive Intelligence Function as well as to Competitive
Intelligence Ethics: Navigating the
Continuing their written contributions to competitive intelligence and business management, Carolyn M. Vella and John J. McGonagle proudly announce their most recent books:
The Manager’s Guide to
Competitive Intelligence
Bottom Line
Competitive Intelligence
How To
Choose and Use A Consultant In Your Company: A Managers' and Executives' Guide
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Manager’s Guide
Praeger
Publishers, an imprint of the Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., has released
the latest CI book by
The topics covered range from staffing to drafting mission statements, and from training to planning for CI’s internal growth and development. In addition to its practical, hands-on advice, it contains numerous checklists, forms, and even a self-scoring diagnostic test.
See what one reader says:
"I purchased The Manager's Guide to
Competitive Intelligence a few weeks ago, and I've found particularly
useful the chapter on "Going Outside for Help". When a CI consulting
firm called me this morning about a potential assignment, I asked the "10
Questions to Ask a CI Consultant" from your book. The consultant
indicated these were great questions, and I got good information to help me
make a decision about hiring the consultant. Congratulations on a great
new addition to the CI literature and thanks for the timely help!"
Judith A. Leavitt, Manager, Competitive Intelligence Services, Rockwell Collins, Inc.
For more on this, read a review from Competia.
This book is
available from Amazon.com (by clicking on the title above).
Bottom Line Competitive
Intelligence
Bottom Line Competitive Intelligence,
by John J. McGonagle and Carolyn M. Vella, is in general release. This book
takes a hard look at how companies can measure Competitive Intelligence’s
impact on their organization. In doing that, it dissects Competitive
Intelligence and provides a comprehensive discussion of its impact on the
bottom line and a long look at the means to measure its effectiveness and
value. Click here to read an extract from the review from Competia.
You can order this book from Amazon.com by clicking on the link above.
How to Use Consultants
Check out the book
by
To order this book, just click on the hyperlink above to go to Amazon.com.
SCIP Awards
SCIP’s Highest Award Presented to Carolyn M. Vella, Founding Partner
March 2003: Carolyn M. Vella, Founding Partner of the Helicon Group, has received the Meritorious Award from the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP). The award, the highest given by SCIP, was presented to Ms. Vella at SCIP’s Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California, March 13, 2003 by SCIP President, Professor Paul Dishman.
The award citation notes that Ms. Vella is
“A prolific author, [who] has continuously contributed to the intellectual
advancement of the CI [competitive intelligence] profession through her
numerous books, articles and presentations. Carolyn has supported and promoted
CI and SCIP across the world.”
SCIP’s Highest Award Presented to John J.
McGonagle. Managing Partner
May 2007: At its 2006 annual conference in
The presentation noted that “McGonagle’s contributions to the field of competitive intelligence have been significant in both quality and quantity….His career and his firm are legendary in CI circles. McGonagle’s consulting practice has broadened the base of understanding of and respect for CI in business. “
This
same award was given to Carolyn M. Vella,
About the Award
Each
year, the SCIP Meritorious Award is given to one individual who has made
significant and meritorious contributions to the CI profession. Candidates for
the award may come from any field, including academia, business, and government.
The Meritorious Award recognizes “achievement for having advanced, nurtured,
and promoted the CI profession across disciplines - in the academic,
government, and business communities.”
This has been awarded since 1989. There have been two years when
it was not awarded. Past winners include Robert
Galvin, and Professor Michael Porter. Galvin is a former CEO of Motorola, Inc.,
and credited with creating the first formal competitive intelligence unit in an
American firm. Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor,
based at
About SCIP
The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
(SCIP) is a global nonprofit membership organization for everyone involved
in creating and managing business knowledge. Established in 1986, today SCIP
has over 50 chapters around
the world, with individual members in more than 50 nations. For additional information on SCIP, please go
to http://www.scip.org/