INSOURCE - conference on Professional Information Resources


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Information as a Competitive Advantage I.

Session coordinator: Vladimír Karen, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic

Where: 5. 2. 2008, 10.00 - 12.20, Diplomat Hotel, Prague B-D

Conference Opening

Autor: Vladimír Karen, Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., Czech Republic

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Abstract:

The author asks himself about the reasons to organize the INSOURCE conference. To provide an answer to that question, general characteristics of the organizer - the Albertina icome Praha s.r.o. company - and overview of the global professional information market.

About author:

Vladimír Karen (born in 1963) graduated at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1988. Then he joined the first Compact Disc manufacturer Gramofonove zavody in Lodenice near Prague, where he was initially co-responsible for starting up the premastering studio and then for the introduction of CD-ROM production and publishing the first Czech demo CD-ROM.

Vladimir Karen became a co-founder of a private company ICOME s.r.o . in 1991, which was a pioneering company in the CD-ROM business in the former Czechoslovakia. The company later transformed into Albertina icome Praha s.r.o., where he is now the Managing Director.


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Survey of Information Services Market in the Czech Republic

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Competitive Intelligence (CI) - Best Practice for Companies

Author: Rainer Michaeli, DIE DENKFABRIK / Institute for Competitive Intelligence (ICI), Germany