Presentations

Competitiveness

• Napoleon and Intelligence - Light thrown by the Battle of Austerlitz. Conference organised by Premier Cercle and the Wall Street Journal on 2 December 2005. Here are the slides from my presentation and the day’s summary.
• "Business intelligence: how can we develop competitiveness in our businesses?", Conference at Sciences-Po, Paris, 6 June 2003.
• "Fighting stance options for Directors?", review Pouvoir d’entreprise, June 2001.
• "The Art of Observation and Asking the Right Questions". SCIP Europe Congress, Brussels 1996. SCIP USA Congress, Montreal 1999.
• "Business and technology Intelligence for Kings". SCIP USA Congress, Cincinnati, April 2002. Summary.

Information sources

• "What I learned from Stevan Dedijer", published in "Regards sur l'IE" en octobre 2004
• "Internet or on-line databases?", article published in www.qwam.com on 8 June 2000.
• "Librarians and Competitive Intelligence", The Global 2000 Worldwide Conference on Special Librarianship, congress organised by the Special Libraries Association, October 2000, Brighton, Great Britain.
• "Performing Competitive Intelligence on dotcom companies: war stories and ethical issues". SCIP USA Congress, Seattle 2001.
• "Artists, ignorants, merchants of light and wandering monks", presentation for SCIP Germany, Frankfurt, 5 September 2001. This presentation was awarded the best participant assessment since the creation of SCIP Germany.
• "Applicazione pratiche di Competitive Intelligence : conoscere i nuovi prodotti che i concorrenti stanno sviluppando", conference organised by the Italian daily newspaper Il Sole 24 ore, Milan, 25 May 2000. Programme.
Serendipity, extract from Watchman's CD-Rom (October 2000).

Analysing and sharing information

• "Unconventional tools for analysis and synthesis of information". SCIP USA Congress, Chicago 1998. SCIP Europe Congress, Berlin 1998.
• "Intranet, business gateway and organisational efficiency", 5th Intranet Forum, Paris, 28 March 2001.
• "War Room: method and commonsense", article by Jacqueline Sala in the review Veille Magazine, October 2001.
• "The War Room for winning tenders. Secrets of 10% of companies that win 90% of the time". Les Echos Conférences, Paris, 1 June 1999. Programme.
• "Getting serious about sharing information". SCIP USA Congress, Montreal, 1999. SCIP Congress, London, 1999.

Business Intelligence Organisation

• "CI in France". Conference at ICIF (Israel Competitive Intelligence Forum), Tel Aviv, 22 May 2005.
• "Obtaining Management Commitment for Competitive Intelligence". SCIP Europe Conference, Brussels, October 2002. This session was voted the best in the entire conference.
• "Teaching old dogs new tricks: The human side of IT and supply". CIES Conference, Amsterdam, October 2001. This presentation was voted the best in the entire conference.
• "Business Intelligence in Europe", Congress IDT, 31 May 2001.
• "Original benchmarking: the Catholic Church intelligence system ". Les Echos Conférences, Paris, 1 June 2000. Programme
• "What can one learn from the Intelligence System of the Roman Catholic Church?". CSCIP Europe Congress, Vienna, 1997. SCIP USA Congress, San Diego, 1997. Presented voted one of the five best out of 120.