Early warning : using competitive intelligence to anticipate market shifts, control risk, and create powerful strategies / Ben Gilad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilad, Benjamin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk management.

Risk.

Strategic planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : AMACOM, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Surprise is rarely a good thing in business. Unexpected developments range in their effects from inconvenient to disastrous. To avoid being blindsided, companies must develop a Competitive Early Warning system, or CEW, which combines strategic planning, competitive intelligence, and management action. Such systems let organizations manage risk more effectively and prevent ""industry dissonance"" -- when market realities outpace corporate strategies. Early Warning reveals how to:* Change strategy to meet new realities* Learn from the mistakes of others via the book's eye-opening stories

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Surprise; Chapter 2 What Do You Know About Strategic Risks; Chapter 3 The Internal Dynamics of Early Warning Failures; Chapter 4 The Analytical the Tactical the Couch Potato and the Blind; Chapter 5 Step 1 Identifying Risk and Opportunities; Chapter 6 Step 1 Continued War Gaming; Chapter 7 Step 2 Intelligence Monitoring; Chapter 8 Step 3 Management Action; Chapter 9 Case Studies of CEW in Action; Chapter 10 If You Start from Scratch . . .; Epilogue

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8144-2744-8

OCLC:

475962476