The Internet Age of Competitive Intelligence

The Internet Age of Competitive Intelligence
Author: John J. McGonagle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1999-01-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0313001626

Two of the most prolific and challenging authorities on the topic of competitive intelligence (CI) reflect on and respond to the changes in the field over the last decade. The authors point out that CI users have to change what they are doing, show why they are doing it, and provide ways of doing it. Their book reviews the problems in the development of CI since the 1980s, discusses the impact of the Internet and the rise in use of other secondary sources, and draws from and provides access to the growing body of CI information, knowledge, and literature. Combining a scholarly approach with hands-on advice, McGonagle and Vella have written the first work to guide CI professionals through the emerging literature of their field. Among the important changes in the field the authors cover are: the radical changes in on line database searching and ways in which the Internet has fundamentally modified how we think of accessing data. Their book explores and reports the major body of work from the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, now that more businesses worldwide are using competitive intelligence and either writing about their experiences with it, or joining in new benchmarking studies. The result is newer information on what really works, what doesn't work, and who is doing what with it. The book is thus a starting point for people new to the field of CI as well as a resource to help experienced professionals do their jobs better.

Millennium Intelligence

Millennium Intelligence
Author: Jerry Miller
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780910965286

A corporate consultant shows how to employ business intelligence to maximize profits.

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.

Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Intelligence

Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Intelligence
Author: Dirk Jaap Vriens
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1591401429

Competitive intelligence (CI) is about gathering and analyzing environmental information for strategic purposes. This work shows that to select the right information and communication technology (ICT) tools for CI, an organization needs to understand the role of ICT in the CI-process.

Managing Frontiers in Competitive Intelligence

Managing Frontiers in Competitive Intelligence
Author: David L. Blenkhorn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2000-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0313001057

For specialists and nonspecialists alike, this perceptive selection of the newest and up and coming tools and techniques of competitive intelligence, offering a well balanced combination of theory and practice. It shows how advances in computers and technology have accelerated progress in CI management, and the ways in which CI has affected (and been affected by) all major business functions and processes. It explores applications to organizations of various sizes and types, in both the public and private sectors. Editors Fleisher and Blenkhorn link leading-edge research in CI to advances in current practice, and balance pragmatic against conceptual concerns. Analysts, strategists and organizational decision makers at higher levels will find the book especially valuable, as they seek to make sense of the business environment and assess their organizations' evolving, dynamic places in it. The pace of change in today's global, competitive economy is greater than at any time in recorded history. Thus, as never before, companies need better tools for business and competitive analysis. The book surveys applications of CI that are critical to business processes, such as mergers and acquisitions, and to evolving industries, such as biotechnology. They focus on how push and pull Internet technologies affect data gathering and analysis and how CI can be managerially assessed using multiple evaluative approaches, unavailable until now in the public domain. They then turn to the future, and lay out some startling yet plausible viewpoints on what the next frontiers of competitive intelligence will be and how organizations can and must ready themselves for them.

Market Intelligence

Market Intelligence
Author: Per V. Jenster
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press DK
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788763002028

Market Intelligence provides an overview of the most important tools and concepts relevant to intelligence analysis for strategic decision making. The book's focus is not only on competitors, but also on customers, suppliers, and a range of other stakeholders. It gives the reader tools used to analyze both micro and macro factors in the organization's environment to predict future outcomes better and to improve decision making. The field of competitive intelligence is studied by a diverse research community. Contributions to this field are made to aid States - on a national, regional, and local level - as well as to aid the military, non-profit organizations, and private companies. These contributions are mostly done in isolation, even though all these fields of study have much in common. The authors draw from these various fields and provide the essential insights to aid management thinking.

Competing in the Age of AI

Competing in the Age of AI
Author: Marco Iansiti
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633697630

"a provocative new book" — The New York Times AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Now with a new preface that explores how the coronavirus crisis compelled organizations such as Massachusetts General Hospital, Verizon, and IKEA to transform themselves with remarkable speed, Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. From Airbnb to Ant Financial, Microsoft to Amazon, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional processes, allow massive scope increase, enabling companies to straddle industry boundaries, and create powerful opportunities for learning—to drive ever more accurate, complex, and sophisticated predictions. When traditional operating constraints are removed, strategy becomes a whole new game, one whose rules and likely outcomes this book will make clear. Iansiti and Lakhani: Present a framework for rethinking business and operating models Explain how "collisions" between AI-driven/digital and traditional/analog firms are reshaping competition, altering the structure of our economy, and forcing traditional companies to rearchitect their operating models Explain the opportunities and risks created by digital firms Describe the new challenges and responsibilities for the leaders of both digital and traditional firms Packed with examples—including many from the most powerful and innovative global, AI-driven competitors—and based on research in hundreds of firms across many sectors, this is your essential guide for rethinking how your firm competes and operates in the era of AI.

Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software

Assessing Competitive Intelligence Software
Author: France Bouthillier
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781573871730

Value-Addedness and Information: Two Notions, One Goal -- From Data to Knowledge -- The Notion of Value -- The Value-Added Processes of Information Systems -- The Value-Added Processes of Expert and Intelligent Systems -- A Conceptual Framework for Competitive Intelligence -- The Evolution of Competitive Intelligence -- Defining Competitive Intelligence -- Competitive Intelligence and Strategy -- The Competitive Intelligence Process -- Identification of CI Needs -- Acquisition of Competitive Information -- Organization, Storage, and Retrieval. -- Analysis of Information -- Development of Intelligence Products. -- Distribution of Intelligence Products. -- Identifying the Value-Added Processes of Competitive Intelligence Software. -- Evaluating Information Technology. -- Targeting the Value-Added Dimensions. -- Other Evaluation Criteria -- Overview of Competitive Intelligence Software Applications and Related Products.]. -- A Typology of Technologies. -- Identifying CI Technology -- CI Software Products Overview. -- Evaluating Competitive Intelligence Software. -- An Evaluation Guide: Criteria and Questions -- Methodology -- Software Evaluation -- Identification of CI Needs. -- Acquisition of Competitive Information. -- Organization, Storage, and Retrieval -- Analysis of Information -- Development of CI Products -- Distribution of CI Products -- Global Assessment -- Conclusion: Competitive Intelligence Technology-Summary, Implications, and Trends -- Bibliography.

Controversies in Competitive Intelligence

Controversies in Competitive Intelligence
Author: Craig S. Fleisher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2003-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0313053677

Chosen for their clear, direct relevance to scholars and practitioners in the volatile field of competitive intelligence, the 24 issues evaluated here represent the cutting edge of CI's most pressing concerns. Current, scholarly, pragmatic, and among the first of its kind, this book presents the heart of the field in a way that even the relatively uninitiated can grasp and quickly apply. The authors cover the latest technological advances and their relation to the tools most valued by CI professionals. They also show that despite its enormous range of possibilities, CI has limits. Navigating the ever-changing organizational and marketplace environments is difficult. A key debate involves what should and shouldn't be done to maximize the beneficial power of CI. Fleisher, Blenkhorn, and the book's contributors present the crucial points of this debate. This book is perfect for practitioners seeking guidance, but also as a supplemental text for students in such courses as marketing strategy and planning, business-to-business marketing, and competitive intelligence itself.

The Sheqel

The Sheqel
Author: Oblap Franciscus Mejia
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2011-10
Genre:
ISBN: 1457503409

At this point, the general inteligence strategic field presents a numerable of intelligence gathering activity. The strategic informer non-fiction manuscript, The Sheqel puts forward today's read caster for an introductory look in the general intelligence knowledge. The Sheqel offers a collection of loaded modernized intelligence subjects from the pre-world wars to modern day science and art topics. The Sheqel was produced in all good standing and delivers a dynamic knowledge foundation for its read casters, as intelligence subject should be available. It enhances the reader with satisfactory contemporary psychology, significant pre-law understanding, natural science facts, cleverness analytical tool concepts, and most importantly polished technological essence. The Sheqel: A Strategic Intelligence Manuscript, published in the US in 2011, describes intelligence as the general intelligencer would describe it in a composition of religion, social, and philosophical literature and the cited passages that explores many interests in the contemporary intelligence field. I am Oblap Mejia; however, you may know me by Franciscus. This is my first book, about the general intelligence field, I have written. I satisfied a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Biology with honor. I am 34 years old and live in Hollywood, CA where I am an actor attending The Film and Acting Academy. Aside from all else, I consider myself in actor in Hollywood, CA. In addition to being an actor, I also am a general intelligencer student election representative. I earned an advanced technical degree in Legal Assisting and an Associate in Science in Paralegal Studies. I have attended as subject in the film festivals. I have dedication and commitment to furthering my knowledge in order to become open to promising roads in my career. I enjoy reading (L. Ron Hubbard) western novels, acting, film festival volunteering/intern, hunting, gun club, and most importantly intelligence studies. I am looking forward to a nice start at a second book.