[October 14, 2004] The Strategic Research Institute Presents: 1st Annual Telecommunications Business Intelligence Summit - Telco & the Road Back ... Assessing the New Competitive Environment NEW YORK, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- 1st Annual Telecommunications Business Intelligence Summit, sponsored by the Strategic Research Institute, is being held at the Renaissance Houston Hotel, Houston, TX, December 9 - 10, 2004. http://www.srinstitute.com/cm425 The need for accurate and actionable competitive intelligence (CI) is a constant in today's increasingly competitive telecommunications' environment, and today all successful telecommunications companies must effectively employ useful intelligence to move their operations forward. This summit will provide all the walk-away tools required to institute state-of-the-art business intelligence practices in telecommunications. The event, to be chaired by Paul Downing, managing director for Fletcher/CSI, will cover a broad range of topics for building, improving & integrating intelligence capabilities for ultimate business development. Key topics to be covered include: -- Recognizing key strategic competitive shifts -- Technical CI: A Telco engineering perspective -- CI in the trenches: building boxes, handsets, platforms, and competitive advantage -- An historical perspective of functionally and structure of CI Telco departments. Do the old models still work? -- From deregulation to mega-mergers: CI lessons -- Competitively positioning your Telco sales force -- What metrics should be tracked ... rate plans, product prices, churn ... ? -- Competitively positioning your network equipment and solutions -- Defining the competitive landscape: The many faces to today's Telco competitor -- The battle between wireless and wire; Applying scenario planning Speakers will include the leaders in telecommunications and competitive intelligence today, including Bruce Bales, President of Glenayre Technologies; Kryzstof Dzieciolowski, PhD, Technical Director Customer Insight for Bell Canada; Mike Susong, Director of Competitive Intelligence for Fujitsu Ltd; Greg D'Anna, Director, Competitive Intelligence for SBC Communications INC., and many more. Registration and Program Information: For registration and customer service, please phone 888-666-8514 / 646-336-7030 or http://www.srinstitute.com/cm425 For more information on how to become a Sponsor and/or Exhibitor at this Premier Event, please contact Hank Woji at [email protected] For Further Information, Please Contact: Chris Dauer Event Producer Strategic Research Institute 333 7th Ave, 9th Floor New York NY USA 10001 Tele: 212-967-0095 x 254 [email protected] http://www.srinstitute.com Strategic Research Institute CONTACT: Chris Dauer, Event Producer of Strategic Research Institute,+1-212-967-0095 x 254, or [email protected] Web site: http://www.srinstitute.com/http://www.srinstitute.com/cm425 [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]