Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence

Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence
Author: Margaret Metcalf Carr
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780910965644

Revealing their secrets for monitoring competitive forces and keeping on top of the trends, opportunities, and threats within their industries, this book presents 15 leading CI researchers and their hard-earned secrets.

Super Searchers on Wall Street

Super Searchers on Wall Street
Author: Amelia Kassel
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000
Genre: Internet
ISBN: 9780910965422

Interviews with expert researchers reveal to day traders and investors the secrets for finding investment-related information online. The best Web sites, online databases, and other electronic resources used by investment professionals to gather and analyze market data are detailed. Experts interviewed include researchers from General Motors Investment Management Corporation, State Street Global Advisors, Oliver Wyman & Company, and other top firms.

Super Searchers Do Business

Super Searchers Do Business
Author: Mary Ellen Bates
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780910965330

Bates, who does the same sort of work, interviews 11 researchers who use the Internet and online services to find critical business information. They reveal how they choose sources, evaluate search results, and tackle projects. The collection launches a series treating online research in different subject areas. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Super Searchers on Health & Medicine

Super Searchers on Health & Medicine
Author: Susan M. Detwiler
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2000
Genre: Internet
ISBN: 9780910965446

In this book, medical librarians, clinical researchers, health information specialists, and physicians explain how they combine traditional information sources with the best of the Net to deliver just what the doctor ordered. If you use the Internet and online databases to answer important health and medical questions, this book will help guide you around the perils and pitfalls to the best sites, sources, and techniques.

Internet Business Intelligence

Internet Business Intelligence
Author: David Vine
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780910965354

Business intelligence--the acquisition, management, and utilization of information--is crucial in the global marketplace of the 21st century. This savvy handbook explains how even the smallest firm can use inexpensive Web resources to create an Internet Business Intelligence System (IBIS) that rivals the multimillion-dollar systems of Fortune 500 companies. IBIS tracks competitors, explore markets, and evaluates opportunities and risks. It can also be used to launch a business, find customers, test new products, and increase sales.

Super Searchers Make it on Their Own

Super Searchers Make it on Their Own
Author: Suzanne Sabroski
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780910965590

Offering the advice, insights, experiences, and encouragement would-be Internet entrepreneurs need to establish a successful independent research business, this book provides an insider's view of Internet businesses and their unique services. Eleven entrepreneurial super searchers representing a broad range of topic specialities and business focuses are interviewed. Also discussed are the details for getting started, developing a niche, finding clients, doing the research, networking with peers, and staying well informed about Web resources and technologies.

Super Searchers on Mergers & Acquisitions

Super Searchers on Mergers & Acquisitions
Author: Jan D. Tudor
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780910965484

This guide details how and where M&A experts go online to compile lists of companies that are in the market to buy or sell, find the prices paid for similar businesses, and identify legal issues that may surface in a deal. Business researchers will find sources for hard-to-find information on companies that may be privately held, subsidiaries of another company, or based outside of the United States.

Super Searchers Cover the World

Super Searchers Cover the World
Author: Mary Ellen Bates
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780910965545

This book asks experts to reveal strategies for finding international business information on the Web. Through a series of interviews, exploration of the challenges of reaching outside a researchers area of knowledge is detailed.

Super Searchers Go to the Source

Super Searchers Go to the Source
Author: Risa Sacks
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780910965538

Using an expert interview approach to primary research, this book shares secrets from professional researchers for integrating online skills with interviews, hands-on public records research, and documents and printed materials not available on the Internet. Provided are tips and resources for using online research to locate sources, prepare for interviews, and evaluate information. Topics covered include getting through gatekeepers, obtaining hard-to-find information, and using primary sources to complement online research.

Super Searcher, Author, Scribe

Super Searcher, Author, Scribe
Author: Loraine Page
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780910965583

The impact of the Internet on the writing profession is unprecedented, even revolutionary. Wired writers of the 21st century use the Internet to do research, to collaborate, to reach out to readers, and even to publish and sell their work. In this comprehensive reference, gems of wisdom are drawn from 14 leading journalists, book authors, writing instructors, and professional researchers in the literary field. These super-searching scribes share their online tips, techniques, sources, and success stories and offer advice that any working writer can put to immediate use.