Official Review CiMi-CON Award 2016

CiMi.CON Evolution 2016: Competitive & Market Intelligence professionals from Ericsson, FrieslandCampina and QIAGEN are the winners of the CiMi.CON Awards 2016

June 29, 2016 | Berlin
From June 27 - 28, 2016, more than 150 competitive & market intelligence professionals from all over globe gathered for the annual CiMi.CON Evolution 2016 conference, organized by we.CONECT Global Leaders in Berlin, to discuss the most pressing challenges and trends in forecasting competitor’s next moves, disruptive technologies, new tools, CI tactics, methods and strategies to cope with a fast changing competitive environment. This time the conference was co-located with Pharma CiMi.CON 2016, the launch event for competitive intelligence and market research and understanding professionals from the pharmaceutical industry.
After a day full of knowledge exchange, discussions and networking attendees from both conferences came together to enjoy the festive award ceremony honoring the most innovative CI projects, innovations, strategies, tools and latest efforts from industry leaders.

Congratulations to the three winners
Beforehand, an independent jury composed by Markus Ott (Head of Corporate Market Evaluation at Festo), Joost Driemann (Vice President Head of Intelligence Best Practices at M-Brain), Terence Hsu (Manager Business Intelligence, Strategy Office at Agfa) had examined the shortlist of nominated applications carefully and evaluated the applications.
The winner of the CiMi.CON Award 2016 was Ericsson with their Mobility Report, which gives accurate mobile traffic insights. The project – as simple as it might seem or maybe even because of that - is a smashing success and is not only used internally as a basis for strategy decisions, but also for external communication. we.CONECT and the audience had the pleasure to welcome Svante Bergqvist on stage, who received the trophy and 1,000 € which were donated to Kiron, an organization that facilitates the access to higher education for refugees around the world.
A deserving second place went to FrieslandCampina for the development of an easy-to-apply working process to use wargame methodologies from the military world in business. Through "wargaming for market victories" the team around Erik Elgersma built a solid and globally applied capability to stress-test business plans and the solidity of FrieslandCampina’s market position defenses in the light of competitor market moves.
The bronze medalist was QIAGEN with the Sales Cockpit, an insight-delivering app store for their sales force to monetize data. Christian Schillinger’s efforts were not only awarded with the third place, but also with a special honor for handing in the most outstanding application in the category ‘Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices and Health’.



CiMi.CON Award 2017
Shortly after the conference, we.CONECT is already setting out to prepare for the CiMi.CON Evolution and Pharma CiMi.CON 2017 (June 26-27). Next year, the CiMi.CON Award will once again be given out to outstanding project leaders, who deserve an international recognition for their projects, strategy or tool implementation in front of the competitive and market intelligence community at CiMi.CON Evolution in Berlin.
For more information about the conferences delegate or speaker registration, as well as the application procedure for the next year´s award, please contact visit our websites:
For the cross-industry event CiMi.CON Evolution: http://competitive-market-intelligence.com
For professionals from the pharmaceutical industry: http://pharma-competitive-intelligence.com

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