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| | The Manager’s Guide to Competitive Intelligence, by John J. McGonagle and Carolyn M. Vella (September 20030. Discusses the basics of competitive intelligence (CI) and what they mean to a manager, staff, structure, missions and images, dealing with other units, training, legal and ethical issues, internal client management, managing data gathering, tips on managing analysis, effectively communicating CI, dissemination of the finished CI, growth development, going outside for help, and measuring CI’s impact on the firm. | http://www.amazon.com/Managers-Guide-Competitive-Intelligence/dp/1567205712/ref=sr_1_10/104-7417785-3164700?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190829143&sr=1-10
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| | Strategic Intelligence: Business Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, and Knowledge Management, by Jay Leibowitz (March 2006). Discusses what do we mean by intelligence, the effect of culture on organizational intelligence, the management processes, artificial intelligence, knowledge management, business intelligence, competitive intelligence, strategic intelligence; the synergy of knowledge management, competitive intelligence, and business intelligence; the intelligence melting pot, competitive intelligence, strategic intelligence, and nine case studies. | http://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Intelligence-Competitive-Knowledge-Management/dp/0849398681/ref=sr_1_12/104-7417785-3164700?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=119082
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| | Competitive Intelligence and Global Business, by David L. Blenkhorn and Craig S. Fleisher (January 2005). Discusses the state of research and practice in competitive intelligence and global business, key intelligence topics (KITs) in competitive intelligence and global business, in search of best practices in global competitive intelligence, moving from a domestic to a global competitive intelligence perspective, process differences in performing global vs. domestic competitive intelligence data collection, the global competitive intelligence environment, global competitive intelligence management; and country-specific, industry-specific, and process-specific studies in global competitive intelligence. | http://www.amazon.com/Competitive-Intelligence-Global-Business-Blenkhorn/dp/0275981401/ref=sr_1_19/104-7417785-3164700?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190832571&
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| | Business and Competitive Analysis: Effective Application of New and Classic Methods, by Craig S. Fleisher and Babette E. Bensoussan (February 2007). Discusses the terminology, analysis as a component in the intelligence cycle, competitive analysis and decision making, performing the analysis process, avoiding analysis pitfalls, communicating analysis results, applying the FAROUT method, industry analysis, competitive positioning analysis, business model analysis, SERVO analysis, supply chain management (SCM) analysis, benchmarking analysis, McKinsey 75 analysis, shadowing, product line analysis, win/loss analysis, strategic relationship analysis, corporate reputation analysis, critical success factors analysis, country risk analysis, driving forces analysis, event and timeline analysis, technology forecasting, war gaming, indications and warning analysis, historiographical analysis, interpretation of statistical analysis, competitor cash flow analysis, and analysis of competing hypotheses. | http://www.amazon.com/Business-Competitive-Analysis-Effective-Application/dp/0131873660/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-7417785-3164700?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=119082
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| | Online Computation and Competitive Analysis, by Allan Borodin and Ran El-Yaniv (February 2005). Discusses an introduction to competitive analysis, the list accessing problem, randomized algorithms, deterministic algorithms, randomized algorithms, alternative models for paging, game theoretic foundations, request/answer games, competitive analysis and zero-sum games, metrical task systems, the k-server problem, randomized k-server algorithms, load balancing, call admission and circuit routing; search, trading and portfolio selection, and competitive analysis and decision making under uncertainty. | http://www.amazon.com/Online-Computation-Competitive-Analysis-Borodin/dp/0521619467/ref=sr_1_4/104-7417785-3164700?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190825264&sr=1
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| | Competitive Intelligence: A Framework for Web-Based Analysis and Decision Making, by Conor Vibert (December 2003). Discusses competitive intelligence in an online world, a primer on competitive intelligence, strategically searching the web, differentiating good online information from bad, protecting your company from web-based competitive intelligence, linking management thought with the online world, analysis: why it is important, management thought: the connection with CI (competitive intelligence), management thought: ideas that can improve CI, web-based research missions: incorporating the Internet into analysis, the knowledge management cycle, web-based CI in corporate and academic classrooms, the role of CI in academia, CI corporate training ideas from the classroom, and using web CI to understand the online music business (a case study). | http://www.amazon.com/Competitive-Intelligence-Framework-Web-based-Analysis/dp/032420325X/ref=sr_1_5/104-7417785-3164700?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=119082526
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| | The Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence: How to See Through and Stay Ahead of Business Disruptions, Distortions, Rumors, and Smoke Screens, by Leonard Fuld (May 2006). Discusses how intelligence insight helps win the game of risk and reward, removing blinders, using war games to see three moves ahead, seeing the trees to understand the forest, getting intelligence on competitors, gathering intelligence gems, and integrating intelligence with your work. | http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Language-Competitive-Intelligence-Disruptions/dp/0609610899/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-7417785-3164700?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=11908
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| | The Complete Guide to Competitive Intelligence, 4th ed., Kirk W. M. Tyson (July 2006). Discusses avoiding a big surprise, maintaining market share, identifying opportunities, competitive intelligence (CI) defined, designing the CI process, conducting a CI needs assessment, developing an implementation plan, organizing the CI team, focusing the intelligence effort, gathering published information, gathering internal information, gathering external information, analyzing your competition, packaging intelligence, guarding your company secrets, and ethics. | http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Competitive-Intelligence-4th/dp/0966321944/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/104-7417785-3164700?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190829143&sr=
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