Competitive Intelligence For Information Professionals

Information professionals should be able to take a proactive role as a strategic partner in their organization's competitive intelligence. Their role needs to focus on the "outside-in" approach, based on their organization's strategic needs and objectives. Competitive Intelligence for Information Professionals explores the role of strategic information and intelligence in organizations, and assesses the values and needs of intelligence in organizations. The book provides guidance on how to work strategically with competitive intelligence, methods for monitoring and analysis and a process-oriented approach. Chapters include discussions on how news monitoring and competitive intelligence interact and how this offers opportunities for cooperation between different departments. Cases from the authors’ own experiences when working with competitive intelligence in international corporations are also included. Competitive intelligence (CI) is a new area for Information professionals Offers perspectives on a new trend within the library and information sector Provides a comprehensive approach to CI

Written from a practitioner's perspective, this book explains how to integrate a company's operations--particularly marketing, advertising, and strategic planning--with the latest competitive intelligence techniques in order to achieve positive results in all areas.

Die Proceedings der Frühjahrstagung "Wirtschaftsinformatik `98" vermitteln Führungskräften der Wirtschaft sowie Studenten und Dozenten der Betriebswirtschaftslehre Einsichten in die Beziehungen zwischen Managementkonzepten und Informationsmanagement, Organisationsformen und IS-Architekturen, Managementtechniken und IS-Technologien und zwischen Benutzeranforderungen und dem Management der Anwendungsentwicklung. Sie bieten konstruktive Antworten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis über Analysen der Wertschöpfung, Leistungs- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Unternehmung und über die Rolle, die den Faktoren Information, Informationsverarbeitung und Vernetzung künftig zukommt.

Every business manager needs intelligence to find suppliers, mobilize capital, win customers and fend off rivals. Obtaining this is often an unplanned, instinctive process. The manager who has a conscious, systematic approach to acquiring intelligence will be better placed to recognize and seize opportunities whilst safeguarding the organization against the competitive risks that endanger its prosperity – and sometimes even its survival. Christopher Murphy's Competitive Intelligence explains: • the theory of business competition • how companies try to get ahead of their rivals • methods of research and sources of information that generate the raw material for creating intelligence • analytical techniques which transform the mass of facts and opinions thus retrieved into a platform of sound, useable knowledge to support informed business decision making. The text includes plenty of examples and experiences from the author's own consulting experience. He draws on a wide variety of disciplines, including literary criticism (or how to read between the lines of company reports, announcements and media stories) and anthropology (understanding corporate culture), as well as the more obvious ones such as financial analysis, management theory and business forecasting techniques. This fusion of insights from many fields of expertise provides a very readable, practical

Features the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), with offices in Alexandria, Virginia, and Brussels, Belgium. Posts contact information via mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail. Highlights membership information and an online membership application. Discusses the Society's code for the ethical gathering and dissemination of information. Provides access to forums and information on symposiums and conferences. Offers information on employment opportunities for competitive intelligence professionals, as well as salary survey results for those professionals.

For specialists and nonspecialists alike, this perceptive selection of the newest and the up and coming tools and techniques of competitive intelligence picks up where other books leave off, 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) major business functions and processes. It explores applications to organizations of various sizes and types. Analysts, strategists and organizational decision makers 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.

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This book provides simple, direct, and proven solutions to problems faced by managers of competitive intelligence units.

Explains how businesses gather information on their competition and the marketplace, and discusses the ethics and cost of business intelligence

This handbook aims to be an integral text for students of library and information science and a ready-reference for information professional practitioners. The chapters provide a construct through which any information professional may learn abut the major challenges facing them in the early part of the 21st century.