I am reading Seena Sharp's Competitive Intelligence Advantage and it is quickly becoming a favorite. I have read other books and found them too academic to be practical. I am compiling a list of recommended reading (books, websites, blogs, magazines, podcasts--all new media) for our new practitioners in the art and science of competitive intelligence and wanted to know what from this very experienced and diverse community: What are your favorites?
Seena's book is a great way to start your CI library. Here is the link to a prior Ning discussion on this topic which I think you'll find helpful. http://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/forum/topics/the-essential-.... I also use the analytical tools books that Babette Bensoussan and Craig Fleisher wrote, Business and Competitive Analysis and Strategic and Competitive Analysis.
I believe that Arik has compiled a list of all the CI bloggers who have identified themselves through CI Ning...Arik help me there when you're back from baby leave.
September 16, 2010 at 9am to September 17, 2010 at 6pm
Tasks, Organization, Software, Staff
A CI centre is the command centre of a company. Here, enterprise wide information flows in order to make important decisions in real-time. With such a centre, a company can improve its competitiveness in a susta…
Content, style, presentation
Competitive Intelligence reporting includes compilation of reports that contain raw and analyzed data for the Intelligence user. Consequently, the form, content and medium of the report has to be adjusted based on the n…
September 13, 2010 at 9am to September 14, 2010 at 6pm
SWOT, industry structure analysis, profiling, portfolio analysis and analysis of competing hypothesis (ACH)
In this workshop, the fundamental methods of Competitivce
Intelligence analysis are taught and practiced with examples. Command of these ana…
September 9, 2010 at 9am to September 10, 2010 at 6pm
Achieving competitive advantage through systematic competitor and market analysis
In times of increasing competition and complex, fast-moving competitive environments, it is important to be one step ahead of the competition. Businesses have to anti…
Hi there,
Reading all the comments already sent I am realizing how difficult is to please everyone and meet so different needs. I am also wondering what would be the best format to satisfy such a wide range of expectations. This SCIP2010 edition le…
Fellow practitioners,
Keen to get people's thoughts and applications of Twitter that they have found useful in their line of work. Has anyone had any joy with deploying an internal Twitter platform that keeps the tweets inside the organisation? …
on Saturday
Andrew Beurschgens Reference to 10 Twitter Tips in 10 Minutes available #twyw
Perhaps it would be a good idea to canvass people's opinion ahead of the programme construct, sort of a pulse of the nation to explore specific features and tracks. This is typically left to the creativityn of the chair to explore what would be rele…
Great Lori, I think your perspective would be invaluable and would encourage to get in contact with Sandy Skipper (sskipper@scip.org) to register your interest in speaking next time. I am aware that sourcing proposals kicks off about September time…
I followed it via Twitter and the tweeters in the audience. As per sentiments shared at the start of the discussion around what are you looking forward to, drat and blast for having not made more of a fuss to attend.
Just added the presentations from the event on 9/3 'Panel Debate Professional Effectiveness and Personal Imrovement as a CI Practitioner' Available from here http://bit.ly/cxmjQD
Just posted the presentations and some of the table literature from the event on the website. Need to register for an account, and available from http://bit.ly/cxmjQD
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A great list. Some errors occur not from faults in the analyst’s mind but are imposed from the wishes or biases, spoken or unspoken, f…
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Think Tanks consist of small groups of experts that are productive usually because they have at least one dominant personality within…