Comments on: SCIP Board of Directors: Proactive Worldwide President Nominated

by: Competitive Intelligence » SCIP Board of Directors: Proactive Worldwide President Elected

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:46:14 +0000

[…] Mr. David J. Kalinowski, President and COO of Proactive Worldwide, Inc., has won a seat on the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) board of directors for a three-year term starting in 2007. A member of SCIP since 1990, Mr. Kalinowski received the Catalyst Award from SCIP in 2005 for service to the profession. Mr. Kalinowski has 16 years of experience in the competitive intelligence industry and has authored several articles on BI topics — several for CI Magazine — and frequently shares his knowledge through dynamic presentations about BI techniques and methodologies, as well as counter-intelligence, with a wide range of audiences. More about Mr. Kalinowski’s background can be found in the article about his nomination. […]

by: Srikanto Muthuchidambaram

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:10:10 +0000

I’m voting “straight Practitioner”:

# Paulo Franklin, Embraer
# Martha Gleason, Blue Cross Blue Shield
# Scott Leeb , McGraw Hill
# Herman Milligan, Wells Fargo & Co.

by: Anonymous

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:17:03 +0000

What about the other candidates. I’ll be interested to see who gets on this time. I didn’t vote for David for a simple reason: in his reasons for wanting to get elected he ignored issues such as the need for SCIP to recognise the international dimension.

There are two international candidates standing - from Israel and Brazil. If SCIP is to become a truely international organisation then both should get elected - but I doubt that they will. Why - because SCIP sees itself as a US organisation with US norms and US ways of doing things.

Perhaps this is why so many people hate the US - because US intelligence stinks. If it didn’t then we wouldn’t now have the mess in Iraq that we have. And half of US SCIP members are ex-government intelligence. So they impose the same methods on business that have been seen to fail in Iraq.

What is needed is to give non-US people a greater say!