Competitive Intelligence Compliance Issues: Tools For Business Best Practices

Why Should You Attend:

Competitive intelligence (CI) has become a major input to a wide variety of executive and management decisions, ranging from strategy to marketing, and from product development to production. However, CI activities are still misunderstood, and, as a result, are often subjected to unnecessary constraints. At the same time, many businesses have failed to develop and enforce compliance policies actually fitting CI as it operates today. In fact, some existing corporate policies may even unnecessarily impact and impede effective, legal and ethical CI activities.

This course will deal with proven techniques for controlling a business’ exposure to the ordinary risks associated with proper CI activities. It will discuss the legal, ethical and management issues in developing and implementing effective CI activities. It will train attendees in managing CI issues and implementing regulatory compliant CI activities in their business.

Areas Covered In the Webinar:

This session will cover the following topics:

• Legal issues, including  dealing with
  • Collecting raw data
  • Using CI
• Ethical issues
  • Do you need a written statement?
  • Developing effective, focused ethical standards
• Management issues
  • Developing appropriate corporate policies
  • Contracting out issues, including subcontracting by contractors
• Training & monitoring
• Your employees – the CI team, others doing CI, and the end users of CI
• Your outside contractors' employees

Who Will Benefit:

This online training on competitive intelligence will provide valuable assistance and guidance for the following personnel:

• Chief compliance officers and their staff
• Competitive intelligence managers and all CI team members
• All employees who uses internal and external CI professionals
• Contracting specialists who deal with outside CI providers
• Independent CI consultants and research firms
• Employees doing their own competitive intelligence research
• General counsel and the legal staff
• Corporate security teams

Instructor Profile:

John McGonagle, is the Managing Partner of The Helicon Group, a global competitive intelligence research, analysis, and consulting firm. The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals presented him with its highest award, the Meritorious Award, in 2007. He has presented on CI in a dozen countries, and is a very highly rated presenter. John is the co-author of 10 books on competitive intelligence, the newest of which, Proactive Intelligence - The Successful Executive’s Guide to Intelligence, is available in hard copy and eBook editions. He can be reached at [email protected].

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