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Good books on CI
Hello everyone,
I am in the process of recommending and purchasing some good books on CI for our company library. (After all this time finally CI has been given its seperate budget). I have shortlisted a few. Would like your comments and any other good books that may be there.
The criteria being the books should be practical and not very text bookish. The ones reading it will be our company employees - CI analysts and also other analysts who we hope to hook using these books. Lot of examples and techniques which our analysts can begin to use in their day to day work and see results would be ideal.
- John Nolan's "Confidential: Business secrets - Getting theirs. Keeping yours
- Larry Kahaner's Competitive Intelligence : How to Gather, Analyze, and Use Information to Move Your Business to the Top
- Craig Fleisher and Babette Bensoussan's Business and Competitive Analysis: Effective Application of New and Classic Methods
Any other suggestions or if you feel I could do with some other book other than the ones mentioned. It would be great. And yes budgets are pretty limited!!
Thanks in advance
Nimalan
I am in the process of recommending and purchasing some good books on CI for our company library. (After all this time finally CI has been given its seperate budget). I have shortlisted a few. Would like your comments and any other good books that may be there.
The criteria being the books should be practical and not very text bookish. The ones reading it will be our company employees - CI analysts and also other analysts who we hope to hook using these books. Lot of examples and techniques which our analysts can begin to use in their day to day work and see results would be ideal.
- John Nolan's "Confidential: Business secrets - Getting theirs. Keeping yours
- Larry Kahaner's Competitive Intelligence : How to Gather, Analyze, and Use Information to Move Your Business to the Top
- Craig Fleisher and Babette Bensoussan's Business and Competitive Analysis: Effective Application of New and Classic Methods
Any other suggestions or if you feel I could do with some other book other than the ones mentioned. It would be great. And yes budgets are pretty limited!!
Thanks in advance
Nimalan
Ellen Naylor
That's a good start. I would add Craig and Babette's earlier book to your list: Strategy & Competitive Analysis which goes into another whole set of tools than their more recent book on your list. For competitive technical intelligence, I would buy Keeping Abreast of Science and Technology by Brad Ashton and Dick Klavans. A quick read is Early Warning: Using Competitive Intelligence to Anticipate Market Shifts, Control Risk, and Create Powerful Strategies by Ben Gilad. I am reading What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro. It's on reading body language and I am really enjoying it. Great for in-person elicitation skill development. The Competitive Intelligence Foundation, a part of SCIP also has some great books: Conference & Trade Show Intelligence, Starting a CI Function, and Competitive Intelligence Ethics: Navigating the Gray Zone.
I have a whole bunch of CI books on my website with connections to Amazon for easy browsing. They are broken down into the following groupings:
Competitive Intelligence: General
Strategic Competitive Intelligence
Product Development
Social Networking, Web 2.0
Online, Internet Researching and Competitive Intelligence Software
Knowledge Management
Global Competitive Intelligence
Technical Intelligence
Counterintelligence and Security
I need to update it again, but it's a great start and includes about 130 books http://www.thecisource.com/resources/books
All the best,
Ellen Naylor
Jan 17, 2009
Babette Bensoussan
We also have a book list on our website - www.mindshifts.com.au - of the latest in CI books.
For your info, our first book contains completely different analytical techniques to Business & Competitive Analysis. They are not the same books.
Best
Babette
Jan 18, 2009