The Complete Guide to Competitive Intelligence

Over the years, many CI professionals have asked, "How do you successfully pull the complete competitive intelligence process together". This book finally answers that question.

It takes the competitive intelligence professional through all the necessary steps to accomplish the task, including assessing their company's needs, developing a plan, conducting the research and finally packaging the intelligence for the decision makers. It even touches on peripheral issues such as counterintelligence and ethics.

Plus, The Complete Guide to Competitive Intelligence not only answers questions, it shows you how to do it with step-by-step worksheets. (CD included)

Competition in the 21st Century

Business competition will change radically in the next century. Short-sighted companies will go out of business. Survivors will successfully transition from the so-called Information Age of this century to the Intelligence Age of the 21st Century.

Ten years in the making, this book paints competition of the future based on in-depth research of worldwide business over the past 100 years. By analogy, it shows business competition in its 19th-Century childhood, 20th-Century adolescence, and 21st-Century adulthood.

The book highlights new beginnings - the Intelligence Age, highly networked "MegaStrategic Business Entities," and the need for both a "Competitive Knowledge Base" and "Perpetual Strategy Process" to provide an early warning system for executives.

This is must-reading for business executives, managers and everyday consumers who want to plot a successful course for the future. It is also an invaluable reference tool for educators guiding the business leaders of tomorrow.

The Complete Guide to Competitive Intelligence

(First Edition)
This loose-leaf manual (in 3-ring binder) communicates the necessity for competitor intelligence, provides an understanding of the competitor intelligence methodology and its link to strategic management, discusses alternatives for conducting intelligence activities, and provides a framework for developing an effective system and network for continuous monitoring of competitors.

Competitor Intelligence Manual & Guide

This manual is the culmination of sixteen years of experience in the information industry. Over this period of time, I have witnessed dramatic developments in computer technology and geometric growth in the amount of information being produced. However, I continue to be amazed by the slow pace at which corporations are exploiting the technology and using the information to their strategic advantage.
— from the preface

Business Intelligence
Putting It All Together

A must for executives and managers who:

• Need business intelligence to make strategic decisions.
• Want to learn about specific tools and techniques for gathering and analyzing intelligence.
• Want to establish or enhance an intelligence system within their company

Companies that are blind-sided by competition lose and lose big. Winners are those who use information to out-think their competitors. This book will show you have to be a winner.

Out of Print
Published by
Arthur Andersen & Co.
1982

Business Planning

The practice of strategic business planning is becoming more common. Companies are beginning to look beyond the one year budget window. Most large companies are wanting to chart their course over a 3 to 5 year planning horizon.

Based on best practices of leading companies in their industries, Business Planning describes, step by step, the best approach for conducting long range business planning:

• Organizing the Planning Project
• Environmental Analysis and Forecast
• Internal Analysis and Position Assessment
• Objectives and Goals Development
• Strategy Development
• Implementation

The concepts are presented in an easy to understand manner, and are supported by numerous examples and worksheets.