Institute for Competitive Intelligence
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| Institute for Competitive Intelligence | |
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| Director: | Rainer Michaeli |
| Advisory council: | Prof. Dr. C. S. Fleisher Craig Fleisher Craig S. Fleisher is a researcher and author who has written or edited several important books in the field of business and competitive intelligence and analysis... Prof. Dr. Utz Schäffer |
| Faculty: | 24 |
| Founding Year: | 2004 |
| Place: | Butzbach Butzbach Butzbach is a town in the Wetteraukreis district in Hesse, Germany. It is located approx. 16 km south of Gießen and 35 km north of Frankfurt am Main.... (Hessia) |
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The Institute for Competitive Intelligence (ICI) was founded to provide post-graduate professionals a solid and flexible Competitive Intelligence training program to become a certified CI-Professional. It organizes workshops in 8 countries including the United States and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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The Institute for Competitive Intelligence (ICI) offers certificate programs for research
Market research
Market research is any organized effort to gather information about markets or customers. It is a very important component of business strategy...
, analysis
Competitor analysis
Competitor analysis in marketing and strategic management is an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and potential competitors. This analysis provides both an offensive and defensive strategic context to identify opportunities and threats...
, strategy
Marketing strategy
Marketing strategy is a process that can allow an organization to concentrate its limited resources on the greatest opportunities to increase sales and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.-Developing a marketing strategy:...
and management
Strategic management
Strategic management is a field that deals with the major intended and emergent initiatives taken by general managers on behalf of owners, involving utilization of resources, to enhance the performance of firms in their external environments...
within the field of Competitive Intelligence
- Fundamental Certificate in Competitive Intelligence - FCCI™ (10 days course)– Fundamental certificate for all Competitive Intelligence-related activities
- Certificate in ...
- Competitive Intelligence Research (3 days course)
- Competitive Intelligence Analysis (5 days course)
- Competitive Strategy (5 days course)
- Competitive Intelligence Management (5 days course)
- Certificate of Proficiency in Competitive Intelligence - CPCI™ (28 days course) - Comprehensive professional training leading to the mastery level in Competitive Intelligence
- Competitive Intelligence Engineer - CIE™ (19 days course) - FCCI level workshops and additional [Business Intelligence] workshops for those working at the interface of Information Technology and Competitive Intelligence.
It is one of the three post-graduate certification programmes in the field of Competitive Intelligence
Competitive intelligence
A broad definition of competitive intelligence is the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors and any aspect of the environment needed to support executives and managers in making strategic decisions for an organization.Key...
world wide, beside the
French Ecole de Guerre Economique and the Fuld-Gilad-Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence
Fuld-Gilad-Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence
The Fuld-Gilad-Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence is a first of its kind global educational organization solely dedicated to bringing professional training to the then fledgling field of competitive intelligence...
in the U.S.
See also: Competitive Intelligence
Competitive intelligence
A broad definition of competitive intelligence is the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors and any aspect of the environment needed to support executives and managers in making strategic decisions for an organization.Key...