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About AWARE
Competitive & Marketing Intelligence Training
Mentoring
 AWARE offers in-house training in all aspects of Competitive and Marketing Intelligence - ranging from the basics to advanced analysis.
Many CI professionals work as “one-person” departments and do not have a large budget or a team of people to work with. At the same time, they need to improve their skills or seek out help and advice.
Our mentoring service aims to provide this – by providing the benefits of an in-house training course customised to the company circumstances, but on a one-on-one basis. With AWARE mentoring you can gain the training and support you need, when you need it, tailored to your particular organisation's products and services.
The mentoring service is designed around you – and can be a mixture of one-on-one tutoring, telephone support or e-mail correspondence. We will help you get started on projects, showing you how you can collect the information required, and then analyse it to get the insights needed for strategy. At each step we can be there for you, so that your “one-person” department is not alone.
Our costs for mentoring depend on the level of service agreed. Generally we would expect to spend an initial day with you – providing practical support for your current projects while teaching you the basics of CI. Following this, we would provide on-going telephone / e-mail support, with additional visits as required. At the same time, we recognise that your budget may be limited and so we aim to keep costs to no more than those charged for our basic training services.
To find out more about our mentoring services,
or call us on 0845 430 9125 (International: +44 20 8954 9121).
To learn more about our other training options and how we can help improve you or your team's competitive & marketing intelligence skills click here, or alternatively contact us by filling in our training enquiry form and we will get back to you.
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Events
ProfitNet Workshop on
Competitor/Competitive Intellgence
(in conjunction with the University of Brighton's Collaborative Training Centre)
Tuesday 15 September / Wed 30 September
University of Brighton - Postgraduate Computer Suite, Watts Building.
Cost: £550 + VAT
A two-day workshop split into two halves (with practical work to be competed during the two-week gap) focusing on ways to use competitive intelligence to best effect within organisational strategy.
Learn how to discover valuable information about your competitors and use this to gain competitve advantage over them in today's changeable markets.
This is one of a series of workshops aimed at helping businesses combat the economic downturn and prepare them for future success.
More information & online booking / Brochure (PDF)
Institute of Competitive Intelligence
UK Course Schedule
ICI holds regular public training in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. The next UK based ICI courses will take place mid-2009 in central London.
If you register 40 days in advance, deduct 5% from total fees.
Book your place!
Further information on the Institute of Competitive Intelligence.
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Quick Tip: Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Business Sins
1) Greed - Are you satisfied with what you've achieved or are you always seeking more, and never consolidating and strengthening what you currently have?
2) Opinion - Do you ever dismiss ideas without analysis? There have been many opportunities that were missed because opinionated management failed to see the wider picture.
3) Routine - Just because something worked in the past does not mean that it will continue to work in the future.
4) Emotion - Is the reason for your decision based on analysis, or emotion? Many managers are driven by their fears and desires without ever stopping to justify the reason for their fear or hatred or love. Often these prove to be unjustified and unjustifiable.
5) Ego - Do you make decisions because you are the cleverest, the biggest, the market leader? Are you obsessed with your own image and abilities? Many leaders in the past also thought that they were invincible. A quick look at history shows that they were not!
6) Success - Over-confidence is dangerous and can blind you to competitors seeking to emulate your success.
7) Hope - Can you justify your reasons why things will improve, or are you just burying your head in the sand, and refusing to see reality?
These seven deadly business sins are based on some work by Ben Gilad, one of the foremost Competitive Intelligence experts. Businesses need to understand their blindspots - what they would rather not see, and work to remove them. Each of these seven sins is a type of blindspot if it dominates the thinking within the company. It's OK to have each to a certain degree, balanced by the others. (All businesses need to believe in themselves, have hope, aim to make money....). The problem is when one aspect starts to govern the way things are done in the company, preventing rational and logical thought.
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Books - Art of the Long View
Recommended Book
The Art of the Long View
Peter Schwartz
Buy UK £ or US$
This is an excellent introduction and guide to scenario planning.
Read our review of this book
If there is one book that is head and shoulders above all the other on the subject of scenario planning, this is it. Schwartz's book is a joy to read and gives a tremendous introduction to the subject, leaving the reader with a firm grounding and understanding in the way that scenario planning has helped many companies gain competitive advantage in their industries. The text includes many case studies and anecdotes making it a must-read book. Peter Schwartz is not only one of the world's leading scenario planners - but an excellent writer also.
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