Babette Bensoussan, recipient of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) highest honour:
The Meritorious Award for 2006!

The SCIP Meritorious Award, the highest honour bestowed by SCIP, recognises a single individual who has made significant and meritorious contributions to the Competitive Intelligence (CI) profession. This award also recognises the achievement of notable publicity for CI as a result of an individual's personal accomplishments.

This award recognises Babette's contributions to CI over the past 15 years, including:

• In April 2002, co-authoring with Craig Fleisher, the book 'Strategic and Competitive Analysis', that added significant intellectual capital to the practice of CI and business analysis in general - and became a business blockbuster. It became the first CI book to be adopted for use in courses such as consulting, entrepreneurship, health care, marketing, strategy and/or technology management, at top MBA programs in the USA, Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, Singapore, South Africa and the UK, among others. Since its publication, it has been translated into Chinese and Korean (2004), Japanese and Russian (2005) and the Portuguese edition is to be released in 2006.
  
• Delivering numerous workshops, speeches, and lectures to industry and government managers, as well as leaders in CI in countries such as China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong, France, UK, Canada and the USA, aiding the intellectual capital development in the CI field.
  
• The intellectual rigor she has brought to the development of CI practices and processes, her tireless efforts to enrich the understanding of CI among organisational managers and executives, her teaching of a new generation of CI professionals as well as her highly effective efforts to promote membership in SCIP, all identify her as an outstanding role model in her profession.
  
• Babette has created a formidable and very impressive legacy of excellence around the globe. She is the first Australian to receive this award. Past Recipients of the SCIP Meritorious Award include: Kirk Tyson, Leonard Fuld, Robert Galvin, Ben Gilad, Stevan Dedijer, Jan Herring, Liam Fahey and Michael Porter.

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The MindShifts Awards in CI Excellence

The MindShifts Group is proud of its achievements, as well as those of our clients and students in the field of CI. We are committed to the development of competitive intelligence in Australia through supporting institutions that offer CI courses.

Bond University offers the only undergraduate competitive intelligence program available in Australia. The MindShifts Group is proud to announce the ongoing MindShifts Award in CI Excellence. This Award is presented each year to the most outstanding competitive intelligence student in this subject.  

For details, contact Bond University

The MindShifts Group is also proud to announce the ongoing MindShifts Award in CI Excellence at Macquarie University's Graduate School of Management. Macquarie offers competitive intelligence as a subject focused on the global business environment in its MBA program. This Award is presented each year to the most outstanding student in this subject.

For details, contact Macquarie Graduate School of Management