CIWG: Seeing Around Corners with Dr. Rita McGrath

September 01, 2020

The Competitive Intelligence (CI) Working Group looks to meet and discuss best practices, share useful resources, and create a network of academic professionals who are engaged in competitive intelligence and are seeking to define how CI works and is perceived in our environment. This group will be connecting with colleagues from other universities to expand our understanding of how research development professionals are working with CI and to share common issues and interests.

Anyone currently performing competitive intelligence activities, or who is interested in learning more about this growing area in research development, may attend. Everyone is encouraged to share their experiences. Each meeting will have a different topic to focus on.

September 1, 2020
10:00 am (AZ time)/1:00 pm (Eastern time)
Online Only

Title: Seeing Around Corners with Dr. Rita McGrath

Please join us to hear from Dr. Rita McGrath who will detail the value of intelligence and its growing importance in the COVID era.

Rita McGrath is a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker, and a longtime professor at Columbia Business School. She is widely recognized as a premier expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. Rita has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s Top 10 management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking. As a consultant to CEOs, her work has had a lasting impact on the strategy and growth programs of Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

Rita is the author of the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013). Her new book is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). She has written three other books, including Discovery Driven Growth, cited by Clayton Christensen as creating one of the most important management ideas ever developed. She is a highly sought-after speaker at exclusive corporate events around the globe, such as the Global Peter Drucker Forum.

She received her Ph.D. from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and has degrees with honors from Barnard College and the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs.

Follow Rita on Twitter @rgmcgrath. For more information, visit RitaMcGrath.com.