Conference on Business Intelligence

LEIA CDT has organized a workshop about Business Intelligence in Vitoria, Basque Country on 16-17 October 2003.

This conference scope was to help people understand the potentials of Business Intelligence for the organizations and how to take business intelligence initiatives one step further.

The conference included four plenary sessions with 13 papers presented. This site provides the presentations both in the normal Powerpoint format ( sign) and in web powerpoint ( sign). We suggest users with slow but constant connection to select the second option. It downloads the presentation slider per slide). The papers presented (followed with and the information provided to the audience) were the following (note: there are a few presentations missing, as well as the papers presented which will appear in the site very soon):

Session A: Management and Organization of the Business Intelligence Practice

• "Business intelligence: a management tool or a future managerial function?" by Ms. Flora Prieto, MBA, Economist. FP Investment Planning and Research, Spain
• "Finnish Experiences of Business Intelligence Practices" by Virpi Pirttimäki, M.Sc., researcher and Mika Hannula, Dr.Tech., Professor Institute of Business Information Management, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
  Presentation (PowerPoint) (157KB)
• "Information sources at the service of the Intelligence" by Mrs. Mercé Alba, Account Manager for Spain and Portugal. Thomson-Dialog, Spain Presentation (PowerPoint) (1,3 MB)   web format

Session B: Information Technologies in the service of the Business Intelligence

• "Innovation Engineering for the Support of Commercial / Scientific Discovery" by Mr.Don Allen, Pira E-Media, Web Site Producer & Consultant
• "New Policy Framework for Real Knowledge-Based Economies in the global village: From Innovation to Creativity - From a single model to some open civilisations 'ones." by Mrs. Marie-Paule Verlaeten. Centre International des Savoirs, Belgium
• "Implantantion of Business Intelligence systems in SMEs" by Dr. Gorka Izquierdo, project manager. IALE Tecnologia, Spain
  Presentation (PowerPoint) (72KB)    web format
• "An example of regional policy for strategic intelligence development. DECILOR. Decision making in Lorraine" by Pierre Bourgogne . Lorraine Conseil Régional, France Presentation (PowerPoint) (135KB)    web format

Session C: State of the Technology Watch in Spain

• "Competitive Intelligence in Spain: the best practices experience" by Alessandro Comai Ph.D. Candidate (ESADE). Spain Presentation (PowerPoint) (135KB)   web format
• "Case 1: Two experiences of Intelligence Systems: "Zaintek" and "Vixia" by Mrs. Rosa Freire, Strategic Information Department Coordinator. CIS, Galicia, Spain Presentation Vixia (PowerPoint) (802KB)    web format   Presentation Zaintek(PowerPoint) (191KB)    web format
• "Case 2: Madri+d, innovation circles. A regional ETI approach" by Mrs. Beatriz Presmanes, General Research Direction programmes coordinator. Madri+d, Spain Presentation (PowerPoint) (955KB)   web format

Session D: BI and policies

• "Public Funding Information as a Business Opportunity" by Mr. Stanislaw Alwasiak, project management specialist. Institutional Development Program, Poland
  Presentation (PowerPoint) (102KB)   web format
• "The role of foresight in a new regionalised innovation policy" by Mr. Michael Guth Zenit GmbH, Germany
  Presentation (PowerPoint) (2,6 MB)   web format
• "The regional dimension of innovation and BI: the Emilia-Romagna experience" by Ms. Leda Bologni, PhD, Head of Division. ASTER Scienza Tecnologia Impresa, Bologna, Italy
  Presentation (PowerPoint) (722KB)   web format

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