Nominations

The Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows is committed to our educational mission and the advancement of CI and related disciplines and practices. A nominee for CI Fellowship shares our values, principles and behaviors, including, but not limited to:

  • Is willing, able, and has a strong desire to continue to support the discipline of competitive intelligence.

  • Has advanced, nurtured, and promoted the intelligence discipline.

  • Has contributed to intelligence knowledge through original research, publication, and/or presentations.

  • Has applied new intelligence knowledge in practical and valuable ways.

  • Is viewed as a valuable source of intelligence expertise and experience by others in the field.

  • Demonstrates the ability to collaborate successfully and consistently.

  • Candidate is an active participant in the competitive intelligence discipline for five years or more.

  • Candidate shares our ethical commitment and demonstrates a consistent history of practicing intelligence in an ethical manner.

  • Candidate must demonstrate or exhibit the core principles of the Council, including those stated in our mission and has not engaged in efforts that could diminish, weaken or otherwise harm the Council, its mission, the overall CI discipline, or those being served.

  • Candidate has an individual willing to nominate the candidate and to submit a complete nomination package with supporting materials by the nomination deadline.

  • Candidate has two other individuals to serve as Endorsers who agree to personally attest (in writing) to the importance of the candidate's contribution to the CI discipline.

Nominating a Candidate

Competitive, strategic, technical and other related intelligence practitioners may be nominated to become a CI Fellow through our annual selections process. Nominations may be made through our open call, announced on this website and through social media. Nominees who meet our criteria for service to the profession and its practice are selected each summer and inducted each October.

Conflict of Interest Notice: 

To honor our emphasis on ethical practices, the Selections Committee does not consider nominations with potential conflicts of interest. Anyone who is a Board member or director of an association, institute, or affiliate in the CI or related field that collects membership dues or other revenue for its commercial interest is ineligible for nomination. Once this person no longer serves in this leadership position, the individual may be eligible.