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1 (630) 983-5530 info@academyci.com Facebook RSS Facebook RSS Enroll Now & Pricing Home About ACI Our Mission What is Competitive Intelligence Faculty Our Alumni FAQ’s CI Training Options CIP™ Certification Executive Intelligence Skills In-House Training Distance Learning Contact Us Articles/Blog Select Page Competing in today’s dynamic and disruptive marketplace is tough. Going at it blind is even tougher. How well do you understand the effect of today’s and tomorrow’s competition on the success of your company? Get the Competitive Edge Competing in today’s dynamic and disruptive marketplace is tough. Going at it blind is even tougher. How well do you understand the effect of today’s and tomorrow’s competition on the success of your company? Get the Competitive Edge The success of your strategy—at the product, market, business unit or enterprise level—depends on how and when you and other parties act or react to a changing market. But, strategy is meaningless without an insightful assessment of competitive market dynamics, and their implications for your business. The Academy of Competitive Intelligence provides world-class training that enables businesses to develop agile and resilient strategies in highly competitive markets. We are NOT about competitor profiling, news monitoring, or other activities that are little more than collecting and warehousing enormous amounts of tactical data and unfiltered noise, or dumping “nice to know” information on uninterested users. We are the only accredited competitive intelligence training organization that knows what powerful competitive intelligence can do for you in your job. Let us equip you with this career-building skill that will pay dividends in your professional career, today and in the future. Next Program Dates Early Bird Discount Pricing November 9-13, 2020 Advanced & Core Courses Nashville, Tennessee If you can’t come to us, BRING US TO YOU! Distance Learning Click on Brochure Above Enroll Now & Pricing “The ACI series of training courses were the most informative, interactive and effective courses I have ever attended!” Matt Barham, Cisco Systems What is competitive intelligence? Competitive intelligence is the art and science of generating a deep understanding of marketplace players and industry forces. It enables executives to optimize their decisions in light of the plans and strategies of other high-impact participants in the external environment. High impact players include all third parties—not just competitors—whose interactions with the company is what determines strategic success. TRAINING OPTIONS CIP™ CERTIFICATION If your job includes full or part-time responsibility for providing competitive intelligence to decision-makers inside your organization, ACI’s Competitive Intelligence Professional (CIP™) certification is a rigorous training program that will enhance the value you bring to your organization while providing skills that will last throughout your career. EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE SKILLS TRAINING If you are an intelligence user in a market-facing job, such as Marketing, Strategy, Pricing, Branding, Business Development, M&A or Product Management, ACI’s Executive Intelligence Skills offering provides short, targeted training to help you develop and use competitive intelligence to enhance your decision-making and strategy competencies. What Our Alumni Say Our alumni number in the thousands and are the most diversified group of professionals and managers coming from all six continents and hundreds of different industries. More than 50% of the Fortune 500 sent their people to train with us. “THE BEST CI TRAINING AVAILABLE” Whether it’s a new analyst on your CI team taking the basic courses or an established practitioner coming back for advanced training this is the best CI training available. Competitive Intelligence training through ACI is not your ordinary training program. The instructors are engaging, the learning environment is challenging, and the case study-based approach for practice is essential to understanding what good CI is all about. You will leave the training with an expanded skillset, knowledge, and confidence to be a real CI practitioner and make an impact at your company. Stacy Keding, Eli Lilly and Co. "We accept no other" I can tell you without hesitation that ALL of our competitive Intelligence personnel are certified Masters of Competitive Intelligence from ACI and we will accept no other certification. We have had nothing other than glowing responses from the Business Area VPs and our President with regard to the value of ACI’s contribution. They get my absolutely highest recommendation which is not casually given. You will not be disappointed with engaging them; in fact, you’ll be amazed and enlightened! Bob Maszarose, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems "World Class" I found ACI as the gold standard in the industry and attended both CIP-I and CIP -II certifications and have been their greatest fan ever since. ACI has helped us define a world class CI capability and tie all work to actions and decision-making. We have been so successful our insights team has been moved directly into the strategy group closely aligning to our executives. Heather Hallenbeck, Bose "No Comparison!" There is no comparison. ACI is a collection of all-stars sharing their knowledge. I wanted to let you know that we are now sending the rest of the team through ACI training! Also, our Finance CI team will likely be going through ACI training in the near future. We are on our way to building a strong, World Class CI team!! I can’t sing enough praise for the ACI courses! Keep up the great work – You truly do believe in ensuring graduates have an impact in their organization. Peg Wright, Sprint Bring competitive intelligence to your organization! ENROLL NOW Most Popular Articles They are market research. We are competitive intelligence. Who wins? This is a stupid question, but not completely without corporate context. Ben Gilad just finished teaching at the Academy of Competitive Intelligence winter core certification (CIP-I™) program with Troy Pfeffer and Heather Hallenbeck. In every program, there are at... read more Why ACI & Why Certification? This is simple to answer: we are the one that has been defining the curriculum in the field since 1999. You can take many courses in information management. We are the only ones training in intelligence. Intelligence is not information. Certification offers your... read more How To Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically… read more ACCREDITATION You can find courses on any subject on the internet. We are the only ones approved by the International Assoc. for Continuing Education & Training as “accredited provider.” It says something. CONTACT US Phone: Tel: 630.983.5530 Email: info@academyci.com Web: www.academyci.com Our Mission The Academy of Competitive Intelligence (ACI) teaches, trains and advises managers and professionals on competing more effectively through the optimal use of competitive, market and strategic intelligence. Privacy Policy Contact Us Enroll Now Facebook RSS Site by Creekside Collaborative.com...