Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals

The Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), formerly the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, is a global nonprofit membership community of "business experts across industry, academia, and government who come together to build and share strategic intelligence, research decision-support tools, processes and analytics capabilities." SCIP is one of the only global membership organizations in the field of competitive intelligence (CI) and business strategy and organizes an annual international meeting and exposition. The last (2017) annual meeting was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Nanette (Nan) Bulger is the Executive Director of SCIP. The organization is governed by a member-elected board of directors who serve three-year terms. It also has a virtual staff of approximately ten association professionals, led by the executive director, who provide membership services, educational and networking administration, communication management, meetings services, among other services. The organization hosts a CI career board on its web site, supports volunteer projects and Council groups, as well as releases Competitive Intelligence Magazine (quarterly, online publication), SCIP.insight (a monthly free newsletter), and monthly decision support deliverables. Also, SCIP produces various whitepapers and industry reports and grants industry certifications and CEUs. SCIP provides access to expert presentations and webinars on its website as well.

In 2009, due to financial difficulties, SCIP merged with the Frost & Sullivan Institute.

SCIP has chapters in the United States as well as in 16 other countries. The U.S chapters include: Atlanta, Georgia, Austin,Texas, Chicago Metro Area, Illinois, Columbus/SW Ohio, Ohio, Dallas,Texas, Des Moines, Iowa, Hartford/Southern New England, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Mercyhurst University/Erie, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Mid South: Kentucky, Tennessee & Indiana, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New York City Metro Area, New York, Northern New Jersey, New Jersey, Pennsylvania/Delaware (Philadelphia Metro), Phoenix, Arizona, Portland, Oregon, Rocky Mountain/Denver, Colorado, San Diego, California, San Francisco, California, Seattle, Washington, Silicon Valley, California South Florida, St. Louis, Missouri, Upstate/Western NY, New York, Washington DC Metro Area, North Virginia and Maryland.

SCIP has held annual conferences for almost thirty years, as well as European summit meetings for almost twenty.

Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals, SCIP, was founded in 1986 in the Washington, DC area through the efforts of a number of local and national intelligence practitioners. The earliest members of the association derived from the corporate community, academe, and public sector. It was headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia until 2012. In December 2005, through the efforts of Dr. Craig Fleisher and the Society's then Executive Director Alexander Graham, SCIP founded the Competitive Intelligence Foundation (CIF). The CI Foundation conducts and supports research on emerging issues and key trends that affect the practice of competitive intelligence and its ability to support key decision-makers and their organizations. The CI Foundation also makes existing and developing competitive intelligence knowledge visible, available, and relevant to the competitive intelligence practitioner through targeted publications including handbooks, studies, and survey reports.

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