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BOOKS

Business Research Methods
Authors: Donald R. Cooper & Pamela S. Schindler

Description

Introduction to Business Research, The Design of Research, The Sources and Collection of Data, Analysis and Presentation of Data.

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McGraw-Hill Companies
P.O. Box 182605
Columbus, OH 43218
Phone: (800) 262-4729
website: www.mhhe.com

Business Research: Methods and Strategy

Author: Kim Burkhardt

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Burkhardt Research Services

250 H Street #224

Blaine, WA 98230

Phone: (888) 432-9119 Toll-Free

website : www.burkhardtresearch.com

Competitive Intelligence: How to Gather, Analyze, and Use Information
Author: Larry Kahaner

Description

Using actual company examples, ‘Competitive Intelligence’ shows how companies use competitive Intelligence to stay ahead of the global pack.

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Order online at amazon.com

Competitive Intelligence Workbook

Author: Kim Burkhardt

Description

"The Competitive Intelligence Workbook provides ready-made forms that guide the organization and presentation of information about the competitive business environment."

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Burkhardt Research Services

250 H Street #224

Blaine, WA 98230

Phone: (888) 432-9119 Toll-Free

website : www.burkhardtresearch.com

Competitors: Outwitting, Outmaneuvering, and Outperforming

Author: Liam Fahey

Description

“Does your business, like many of today’s leading companies, make these dangerous competitive mistakes: take actions as if competitors did not exist, collect extensive competitor data but fail to convert it into insights about competitors’ current and potential actions,..?  To prepare your business for market rivalry in the twenty-first century you need an approach to competitor analysis and intelligence that far surpasses the best practices in most organizations today. You need Competitors...”

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.

Online ordering at www.amazon.com

The Complete Guide to Competitive Intelligence

Author: Kirk Tyson

Description

“… ‘The Complete Guide’ establishes a blueprint for conducting the entire competitive intelligence process from start to finish. This…book provides…the methodology necessary to gather and analyze intelligence, establish networks, conduct intelligence interviews, and more…detailed instruction on designing and implementing a corporate CI process that can operate as an integral function of a corporation, company, division or an individual business unit.”

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Order online at www.amazon.com

Confidential: Uncover Your Competition's Top Business Secrets Legally and Quickly - And Protect Your Own

Author: John Nolan III

Description

"This book about competitive intelligence reveals how to uncover the competition's strategies and use them to your advantage. Also covers protecting intellectual property."

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Phoenix Consulting Group

Commercial Services Dept. 919

Willowbrook Drive, Suite B

Huntsville, AL 35802

Phone: (800) 440-1724

website: www.intellpros.com

The Michael E. Porter Trilogy:

Competitive Strategy, Competitive Advantage, and The Competitive Advantage of Nations

Author: Michael Porter

Description

Harvard economist Michael Porter combines economics with market theory to "reveal the important differences among industries, how industries evolve, and help companies find a unique position."  Porters' "five forces" are examined within these texts.  Porter's books are recognized for their significant impact upon market strategy and market theory.

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Online ordering available at www.amazon.com

The New Competitor Intelligence

Author: Leonard Fuld

Description

"The Complete Resource for Finding, Analyzing, and Using Information about Your Competitors"

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Fuld & Company Inc.

126 Charles Street

Cambridge, MA 02141-2130

Phone: (617) 492-5900

website: www.fuld.com

Online Competitive Intelligence: the insider's guide to business intelligence in Cyberspace

Author: Helen Burwell

Description

"Make strategic decisions using the same resources that large corporations use.  Evaluate sources, validate information and create accurate assessments.  Use hundreds of online sources for competitive intelligence information gathering…"

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BRB Publications

1971 E. 5th Street, #101

Tempe, AZ  85281

(800) 929-3811

website: www.brbpub.com

Proven Strategies in Competitive Intelligence: Lessons From the Trenches

Authors: John Prescott, Scott Miller, SCIP

Description

“Tested-in-the-Trenches (CI) techniques used at today’s top companies.  This book brings together the best thinking and practices in competitive intelligence (CI) currently being used at many of today’s most successful companies.  Featuring contributions from leading industry executives, it covers CI strategies across a wide range of business functions, including marketing and sales, market research and forecasting, product development, and teams…”

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Order online at www.amazon.com

The Super Searcher Series

Editor: Reva Basch

Description

This book series is always growing.  Top industry “searchers” reveal their methodologies and secrets for gathering information from a variety of sources – online research, telephone interviews, journalism, legal research, health and medical research, you name it.  Editor Reva Basch brings research professionals together to develop this timely series.

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Order online at www.amazon.com

JOURNALS / MAGAZINES

Competitive Intelligence Magazine

Description

A journal for peer-reviewed research and case studies focused on CI. Published by the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).

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Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
1700 Diagonal Road, Suite 600
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Phone: (703) 739-0696
Order back copies online at www.scip.org

International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

Description

Published quarterly, “The International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence serves as a medium for professionals and scholars to exchange opinions on issues and challenges encountered by both government and business institutions in making contemporary intelligence-related decisions and policy. At the same time, this quarterly serves as an invaluable resource for researchers looking to assess previous developments and events in the field of national security…”

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International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence P.O. Box 1975
New York, NY 10021
Phone/Fax: (212) 570-2340

Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Rankine Road
Basingstoke, Hants
UK  RG24 8PR
Tel: +44 (0) 1256 813000
Online Order Form:
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/jorderfrm.html

Strategic Management Journal

Description

“The journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of strategic management. It is devoted to the improvement and further development of the theory and practice of strategic management and it is designed to appeal to both practicing managers and academics.”

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Customer Service

605 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10158-0012

Phone: (212) 850-6645 

Online: http://jws-edcv.wiley.com/jcatalog/JournalsCatalogOrder/

JournalOrder?PRINT_ISSN=0143-2095

Studies in Intelligence

Description

Publication of the Center for the Study of Intelligence (CIA) in Washington, D.C.  “The Center for the Study of Intelligence seeks to promote study, debate, and understanding of the role of intelligence in American society."

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For more information, visit www.odci.gov/csi/studies.html

or contact:

Government Printing Office (GPO)

Superintendent of Documents

P.O. Box 391954

Pittsburgh, PA 1520-7954

Phone: (202) 512-1800

E-mail: orders@gpo.gov

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