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History and Milestones

2026

  • CCI enables Mitipi with KEVIN® the greatest sales success ever achieved. Within one week in January, almost as many devices were sold as in the entire year 2024.
  • CCI orchestrates the expansion work around KEVIN®, with a stronger integration of Artificial Intelligence in the simulation of presence to prevent burglaries.
  • The work on the HOF ZU WIL enters its final phase. CCI expands its scope of responsibilities and prepares the opening of the Hof Worlds for July 4, 2026.
  • CCI continues to give lectures at universities, currently UniFR (University of Fribourg), UniNE (University of Neuchâtel) and USI (University of Lugano).

2025

  • The work of CCI on the HOF ZU WIL intensifies.
  • MITIPI wins the prestigious Plus X Award.
  • CCI is responsible for many new developments around Mitipi, such as the new website KEVINSWISS.COM, as well as a crowdinvesting campaign on CONDA.CH and a major TV and media campaign in Switzerland.
  • CCI establishes Mitipi Incorporated for Mitipi in the USA, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA.
  • CCI celebrates a financial success with the exit of BEEKEEPER. CCI remains a partner of Beekeeper and now also of lumapps.
  • CCI strengthens its engagement in the ESB Marketing Network and becomes one of the three largest shareholders.
  • Patrick Cotting becomes a municipal councillor in Rümlang, Canton Zurich. He takes over responsibility for finance, taxes, and ICT and acquires extensive knowledge about how municipalities function.
  • CCI continues to give lectures at universities, currently UniFR (University of Fribourg), UniNE (University of Neuchâtel), USI (University of Lugano), HWZ (Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration).

2024

  • CCI organizes the tender for the scenography of the Hof Worlds at the HOF ZU WIL.
  • MITIPI launches KEVIN®.3, the third generation of the presence simulator for burglary prevention, and wins the European Security Award.
  • Since 2023, CCI has been developing the vision, strategy, and business plan for John Howe’s project, LA TOUR DU FANTASTIQUE in Neuchâtel.
  • CCI continues to give lectures at universities, currently UniFR (University of Fribourg), UniNE (University of Neuchâtel), USI (University of Lugano), HWZ (Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration).

2023

  • CCI achieves a historic milestone for the startup MITIPI: the granting of patents for the technology behind the KEVIN® presence simulator for burglary protection by both the US Patent Office and the European Patent Office, valid until 2041.
  • After the test year, the City of Geneva expands the use of BEEKEEPER to additional departments, thanks to CCI’s support.
  • Patrick Cotting of CCI becomes responsible for the development of the Hof Worlds at the HOF ZU WIL.
  • Patrick Cotting is a candidate for the National Council for The Centre party in the Canton of Zurich on the list of the AWG. In doing so, he aims in particular to understand how politics works at the national level and what can be achieved and how.
  • CCI continues to give lectures at universities, currently UniFR (University of Fribourg), UniNE (University of Neuchâtel), USI (University of Lugano), HWZ (Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration).

2022

  • The cultural institutions of the City of Geneva, including all libraries and museums, have given themselves a new internal communication platform with the Beekeeper tool. See here the details of BEEKEEPER. CCI was responsible for its consulting, coaching and implementation.
  • CCI supports the project MUZOO in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland). Fundraising documents have been prepared for this purpose and some activities will be launched in the coming months. MUZOO is the unique new experience world in Central Europe, combining both the Natural History Museum and the Zoo.
  • CCI has developed a new marketing strategy for the Swiss National Museum CHÂTEAU DE PRANGINS, based on the analysis of a survey of visitors and workshops with staff.
  • Patrick Cotting of CCI continues to support the project HOFBEZIRK WIL.

2021

2019/20

2018

  • CCI selected as external expert for defining the governance structure and business plan for the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tre Castelli Bellinzona
  • CCI helps the CSS insurances to initiate and develop the CSS Family Circus concept at DAS ZELT
  • CCI again co-organiser of the Swiss Sponsorship Awards.

2017

  • Strategy evaluation, development and implementation work for the UNESCO World Heritage Site Abbey of St-Gall
  • Evaluation of the Partnership Strategy (Audit) for Château de Chillon
  • CCI enables the partnership between the International Ski Federation FIS and the Start-Up SKADI.guide
  • CCI becomes official Partner of Beekeeper , the number one staff app for fast and secure communication
  • CCI takes a share in the following start-ups: Skadi FIS, ByHours.com, CheckYeti
  • CCI MEDIA: First ever skilift campaign for a Museum, the Olympic Museum Lausanne.

2016

  • CCI MEDIA: skilift campaign for VOLVO and Groupe Mutuel in more than 20 ski resorts
  • Shortlisted for the M&M Global Awards in London with the concept SwissRE Corporate Solutions - History Channel: Best creative concept.

2015

  • New Mandate for the project "zoo-musée":Consolidation and realization of the vision and strategy of the project "zoo-musée" for the Zoo du Bois du Petit-Château and the Musée d'histoire naturelle de la Métropole horlogère
  • New Mandate from SwissRe: Corporate Solutions and their engagement for SolarImpulse on the History Channel
  • New Mandate from Samsung Switzerland: Evaluating and developing the new brand experience and sponsorship strategy
  • Study on the Future of the Castle of Colombier and its museum

2014

  • Helping to "launch" Skioo: strategy, business development, partnerships, marketing, media, PR
  • New Mandate from A+E Networks: Setting-up partnerships and business development in Switzerland.
  • New Mandate from Partnerwise, the most efficient and effective tool for managing requests for sponsorship and subsidies

2013

  • Strategy Workshop with marketing managers of SWISS International Airlines
  • Starting the works for the Swiss Management Association (see www.smg.ch) in the areas of Strategy, Product policy / offers, Marketing and Finance
  • New mandate from the TicketCorner to help on the establishment of new “Partnerships” (www.ticketcorner.ch)
  • New mandate from the Social TV network JOIZ on the establishment of new “Partnerships” (see www.joiz.ch)
  • New mandate from EpicTV, a part of the Finnish telecommunications group Elisa Corporation: Development and improvement of the business strategy for epictv.com
  • Start of the strategy and marketing works for the i-Lumica AG with the SAICA Systems, the first system for automatic and efficient car body damage measurements
  • New Mandate from Château de Grandson (near Yverdon CH): Developing the Strategy 2014+, including vision, positioning, strategy, benchmark study and a stakeholder analysis and survey, following CCI's 9P management model

2012

  • Co-development of the “SponsorAd Check Tool” (together with Sponsorize Sarl in Geneva), a new IT solution for the management of sponsorship, advertising/media and philanthropy requests
  • CCI MEDIA officially launches translation services (with translations in Spanish, german, French, English, Arabic, Italian etc.)
  • Analysis work for CSS Insurances in the areas of marketing communications and sponsorship
  • Developing the vision, positioning and strategy for a new museum in Moutier (Le TECHM)
  • Starting the works for the project HYDROS at EPFL in Lausanne. Helping the team on marketing, communications and partnerships (see www.hydros.ch)
  • The new Swatch SnowPark concept “Shoot my Ride 2.0 HD” wins the First Swiss Sponsorship Award

2011

  • Starting a cooperation with the IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation): Coaching member associations in the areas of strategy, marketing and new media.
  • Evaluation and strategic works for Axpo Holding (sponsorship and brand experience strategy)
  • Developing the sponsorship, brand experience and event guidelines for the energy company CKW (including vision, principles, KPI’s, activity fields and processes)
  • Improving the Swatch SnowPark concept “Shoot my Ride”: from version 1.0 to version 2.0 HD
  • Partnership with Yahoo! to represent marketing and media opportunities in Switzerland and Austria
  • CCI MEDIA signs partnerships with ArgYou and Dartfish and extends its product and services portfolio

2010

  • Started the work for PlanetSolar - the First Around the World with Solar Energy. Being responsible for marketing and partnerships. Having established partnerships and events in more than 30 countries, among those Australia, Philippines, Hongkong, Singapour, V.A.E., Monaco. The project has won five Guinness World Records. The arrival in Monaco on the 4th May 2012 was followed and broadcast by more than 100 media and TV channels from all over the world (for more details see www.planetsolar.org) and included a unique event set-up with the participation of 400 VIP guests, the Foreign Minister of Switzerland and Prince Albert II of Monaco
  • Carried out a research study for the Rolex Institute on the practices of Philanthropy and CSR in more than 40 companies. Extraction of success factors and development of strategic recommendations as well as a monitoring system
  • Contract to develop the communication processes and communication structures (including press/media relations & marketing communications) for the Gaydoul Group.
  • Developed the Internet Information Portal grippe.ch for Sanofi Pasteur MSD

2009

  • Developing the vision, positioning and strategy for the Sensler Museum (see: (link:http://www.senslermuseum.ch text:www.senslermuseum.ch popup:yes), based on an extensive empirical social research. The situation of the museum has significantly improved thanks to this CCI work: change from an annual deficit to a profit margin of more than 20% in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 and an increase of the number of visitors by more than 50%
  • Strengthening the “Connecting” element of CCI by launching the crossmediamarket.com / cci-media.com platform – the first shop for sponsorship and advertising on the web, with more than 1‘000 offers from tourism regions in Switzerland and Austria, as well as from different event platforms, such as Red Bull events in Switzerland, the Ice Climbing World Cup and the Patrouille des Glaciers
  • Start with representatives of CCI in Madrid (Spain). Dr. Laura Illia, PhD. / Assistant Professor at IE University in Madrid (see www.ie.edu) and lecturer at the London School of Economics is joining CCI and becomes “Head of Research”
  • The Swatch SnowPark concept wins the First Price at the International Media Festival in Valencia for being the best Outdoor concept worldwide
  • Starting the development works for the brand experience and partnership guidelines of the Swiss Railway company SBB-CFF-FSS (mandate through to 2010)
  • Starting the development works for a new vision, positioning and marketing strategy of the company EKZ Eltop, including trainings for more than 90 managers and the development and implementation of a new controlling process based on the 9P® strategy approach (mandate through to 2011)

2008

  • Starting CCI COTTING CONSULTING Limited with its headquarters in Tafers/Fribourg (Switzerland) and an office in Zurich-Ruemlang (Switzerland). Starting the work for the three first clients:
  • Adecco Group: Developing the global sponsorship guidelines
  • Eurosport: Managing the client relationships with Longines and Nespresso
  • UEFA Euro 2008TM Host City Basel: Mandate from the government of Basel to manage the sponsorship and finance of the activities in the city of Basel. Basel was the most important host city (besides Vienna) with the opening match, all matches of the Swiss Football Team and the quarter and semi final)
  • Developing the Swatch SnowPark concept, the first outdoor concept that combined reality with virtuality, sponsorship with public viewing and an integration into social media platforms. Partnership with MediaMountain Amsterdam to implement the concept in Verbier, Laax, Tignes, Soelden and Livigno
  • Developing the financial concept for the activities of the cities of Geneva, Basel and Zurich at the World Expo Shanghai 2010
  • Starting the strategic partnership with the CIES at the University of Neuchâtel. Developing the manual on “Sponsorship Management”, a tool and paper that is used at 13 Universities worldwide for their FIFA Sports Management classes
  • Starting the strategy works for the leading Swiss insurance company Suva, including the definition of their CSV, sponsorship and event strategy (finishing the works in 2009)
  • Starting the restructuring works for Special Olympics Switzerland: Re-launching the foundation, development of revenue streams (sponsorship, membership marketing, direct marketing). Finishing the works in 2010
  • Starting development works to strengthen the relationships between Longines, Nespresso and the paneuropean media group EUROSPORT, leading to an extensive multiplatform partnership between Longines and Eurosport as well as media campaigns of Nespresso on the Eurosport platforms (mandate through to 2011)