Managing frontiers in competitive intelligence / edited by Craig S. Fleisher, David L. Blenkhorn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fleisher, Craig S.

Blenkhorn, David L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business intelligence--Management.

Business intelligence.

Competition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; An Introduction to the Management and Practice of Competitive Intelligence (CI); Competitive Intelligence and Strategic Decision- Making at the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Level; Reducing Vulnerability Through Counterintelligence; The Use of Counterintelligence, Security, and Countermeasures; Overview of Best Practices in Competitive Intelligence; Using the Internet for Gathering Competitive Intelligence; Analysis in Competitive Intelligence: Process, Progress, and Pitfalls; A Toolbox for Communicating Competitive Intelligence via the Internet

Using a Marketing Framework to Communicate Competitive Intelligence ResultsEffective Approaches to Assessing Competitive Intelligence Performance; Competitive Intelligence and the Management Accountant; Using Competitive Technical Intelligence Techniques to Complement Research- and-Development Processes; Applying Competitive Intelligence to Mergers and Acquisitions; New Product Development and Competitive Intelligence; The Need for Business Intelligence Tools to Provide Business Intelligence Solutions; Identifying Competitive Intelligence Priorities in Biotechnology

Making Competitive Intelligence Work for the Small BusinessRe- Designing the Competitive Intelligence Capability within a Financial Institution; Competitive Intelligence in Service Industries; Information Technology: Enabling Competitive Intelligence Adoption in Small- to- Medium Enterprises; Corporate Community Culture and Counterintelligence; Understanding the Ethical Aspects of Competitive Intelligence; Competitive Intelligence and Organizational Change; The Future of Competitive Intelligence; Index; About the Editors and Contributors

Notes:

A collection of 24 papers by the editors and other researchers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-304) and index.

ISBN:

9798400682186

9786610868841

9780585393193

0585393192

9781280868849

1280868848

9780313001055

0313001057

OCLC:

814486412