AlessandroComai and John E. Prescott

Alessandro Comai
Ph.D. candidate at ESADE business school (URL) he holds a BSc (Honor) in Engineering and an MBA from the University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). At the moment he is an associate professor of the University of Pompeu Fabra, (Barcelona, Spain) and it was a visiting professor at Tampere University of Technology (Tampere, Finland) were he researches and teaches business intelligence (BI). He has written several article and paper about BI and he is doing several researches about competitive intelligence. He is co-author (with Joaquín Tena) of the book Inteligencia Competitiva y Vigilancia Tecnológica: Experiancias de implantación en España y Latino America and co-author of the report Software for Technological Patent Intelligence. He is currently the director of the Spanish competitive intelligence magazine (PUZZLE - Revista Hispana de la Inteligencia Competitiva) and he is an editorial member of the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management.

John E. Prescott
Dr. John E. Prescott is the Thomas O'Brien Chair of Strategy and Director of the Doctoral Program in the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. John was a founder of SCIP, the 1991-1992 President, currently on the board of directors and a Trustee of the CI Foundation. He is a fellow, the 1994 meritorious award winner, a finalist for the Fay Brill Service Award and International Advisor of the Society of Competitive Intelligence, China. John was the executive editor of the Competitive Intelligence Review for eight years and currently the co-editor of the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management. John is the author and/or editor of four books, the most recent being Competitive intelligence: A Guide to Your Journey to Best-Practice Processes and over 80 articles. Professor Prescott designed the first MBA course in competitive intelligence and in 1986 was awarded the Valley Forge Honor Certificate for Excellence in Economic Education. In 1996 he designed and implemented the first web-based CI course. Dr. Prescott's research focuses on dynamic competitive rivalry, alliance networks, and technology strategy. He is the CI content expert at the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC.org). He was the Dean of the Business Analyst Program at Texas Instruments. Dr. Prescott consults internationally.

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