Download or read book Competitive Intelligence in Small Businesses written by Talal Lahlou and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fed-up with theory and theories about competitive intelligence? Looking for practical and clear strategies synthetically exposed, step by step? Lacking the necessary budget to set up a competitive intelligence unit but still feeling the need for your business? This book aims at delivering successful and clear steps to take your business ahead. It is compiling best practices about practical tools used by competitive intelligence professionals from top companies and adapting them to small business structures that have specific needs and very restricted budgets and HR. All compiled in brief points that are easily implemented in a small business.

Download or read book Competitive Intelligence written by Larry Kahaner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book designed for businesses of all sizes and managers at every level, Larry Kahaner explains the increasingly vital practice of competitive intelligence and how American companies can use it for success. With a wealth of case studies, Kahaner shows How to profile your competitors' executives to unmask their decision-making processes The line between legal and illegal or unethical activities How to protect your own company against your competitors' intelligence operations COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE is a practical guide to turning raw information into priceless knowledge and winning business strategy.

Download or read book Competitive Intelligence for Small Businesses written by Talal Lahlou and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major works on CI focus on expensive and complicated processes and techniques that cannot be relevant for a business of 5 people. To date theory focuses more on models than the implementation of models, and the analyses remain too complex for small businesses' managers.It is evident that the amount of literature available for this topic is still insufficient. The situation is moving but very slowly. CI for small businesses has to benefit from specific analyses. Theory is very poor in analysing specifically small businesses fitting competitive intelligence models. This book adopts multiple perspectives, amongst which sources of information, process of utilisation of this information, the link between information and the process, and a clear implementation process and model.The structure of this book will naturally emphasise on the practical aspects in a synthetic way, to allow managers implementing clear and structured steps to get quickly forward in their market.

Download or read book Proven Strategies in Competitive Intelligence written by Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tested-in-the-trenches competitive intelligence 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. The only book on the subject offering a comprehensive view of CI, from the CEO down to the tactical CI team Numerous case studies vividly illustrating cutting-edge CI techniques in action

Download or read book Competitive Intelligence Advantage written by Seena Sharp and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical introduction to the necessity of competitive intelligence for smarter business decisions-from a leading CI expert and speaker In Competitive Intelligence Advantage, Seena Sharp, founder of one of the first Competitive Intelligence firms in the US, provides her expert analysis on the issues and benefits of CI for today's businesses. CI is critical for making smarter business decisions and reducing risks when formulating strategies, leading to more profits and fewer mistakes. This is a practical guide that explains what CI is, why data is not intelligence, why competitor intelligence is a weak sibling to competitive intelligence, when to use it, how to find the most useful information and turn it into actual intelligence, and how to present findings in the most convincing manner. Importantly, Sharp argues that businesses would benefit from shifting their perspective on CI from viewing it as a cost to viewing it as an investment that saves money and provides immediate value. Author Seena Sharp is a noted CI expert who established Sharp Market Intelligence in 1979 Addresses all the most common myths and misconceptions about CI Includes more than sixty examples of when to use CI Completely explains the ins and outs of CI, and why your company will act faster and more aggressively with CI Competitive intelligence is a management tool that is misunderstood and underestimated, yet results in numerous benefits. If you are a senior level executive or operate a business-and you aren't tapping the power of CI to improve your decision making-you are missing a potent advantage.

Download or read book Staying Ahead of the Competition written by Dr. Chris Hall and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Physics and Modeling of Tera- and Nano-Devices" is a compilation of papers by well-respected researchers working in the field of physics and modeling of novel electronic and optoelectronic devices. The topics covered include devices based on carbon nanotubes, generation and detection of terahertz radiation in semiconductor structures including terahertz plasma oscillations and instabilities, terahertz photomixing in semiconductor heterostructures, spin and microwave-induced phenomena in low-dimensional systems, and various computational aspects of device modeling. Researchers as well as graduate and postgraduate students working in this field will benefit from reading this book.

Download or read book Business Intelligence Tools for Small Companies written by Albert Nogués and published by Apress. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to transition from Excel-based business intelligence (BI) analysis to enterprise stacks of open-source BI tools. Select and implement the best free and freemium open-source BI tools for your company’s needs and design, implement, and integrate BI automation across the full stack using agile methodologies. Business Intelligence Tools for Small Companies provides hands-on demonstrations of open-source tools suitable for the BI requirements of small businesses. The authors draw on their deep experience as BI consultants, developers, and administrators to guide you through the extract-transform-load/data warehousing (ETL/DWH) sequence of extracting data from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) database freely available on the Internet, transforming the data, manipulating them, and loading them into a relational database. The authors demonstrate how to extract, report, and dashboard key performance indicators (KPIs) in a visually appealing format from the relational database management system (RDBMS). They model the selection and implementation of free and freemium tools such as Pentaho Data Integrator and Talend for ELT, Oracle XE and MySQL/MariaDB for RDBMS, and Qliksense, Power BI, and MicroStrategy Desktop for reporting. This richly illustrated guide models the deployment of a small company BI stack on an inexpensive cloud platform such as AWS. What You'll Learn You will learn how to manage, integrate, and automate the processes of BI by selecting and implementing tools to: Implement and manage the business intelligence/data warehousing (BI/DWH) infrastructure Extract data from any enterprise resource planning (ERP) tool Process and integrate BI data using open-source extract-transform-load (ETL) tools Query, report, and analyze BI data using open-source visualization and dashboard tools Use a MOLAP tool to define next year's budget, integrating real data with target scenarios Deploy BI solutions and big data experiments inexpensively on cloud platforms Who This Book Is For Engineers, DBAs, analysts, consultants, and managers at small companies with limited resources but whose BI requirements have outgrown the limitations of Excel spreadsheets; personnel in mid-sized companies with established BI systems who are exploring technological updates and more cost-efficient solutions

Download or read book The Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence written by Leonard M. Fuld and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Small business intelligence written by Claude Lepère and published by Edipro. This book was released on 2011 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Permet aux chefs d'entreprises et décideurs de PME/PMI d'introduire l'inteligence stratégique dans leur gestion de l'entreprise. L'intelligence économique comme aide à la décision et à l'innovation). Les modalités d'utilisation y sont présentées par secteur d'activité, puis des études de cas et des exemples d'applications réussies en Wallonie."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Download or read book Competitive Intelligence written by Carol Tallon and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Competitive Intelligence and Small Companies written by Patrick Tarraf and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competitive intelligence is a relatively new field that has been gaining prominence over the past decade, coinciding with a remarkable increase in firms' adoption of information systems. Competitive intelligence's increased prominence has been noticeable, both in the academic literature and in industry. In simple terms, competitive intelligence is meaningful information that allows you to be aware of your competitive environment. Most academic research into the subject has focused on large corporations while overlooking smaller companies. This study focuses on small companies. Based on a multiple case study, it investigates the prevalence of CI activity among small companies, the sophistication of this activity and the attitudes that owners hold towards the subject. It identifies several factors that may account for shaping CI activity, including the industry, the presence of networks of friends among competitors, and general attitudes towards competition.

Download or read book The Competitive Intelligence Playbook written by Fouad Benyoub and published by Fouad Benyoub. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe that intelligence, not data, can shape better business decisions? Do you want to explore how to gather, analyze, and share competitive intelligence? Do you want to learn what it takes to build efficient competitive intelligence programs? Then The Competitive Intelligence Playbook is for you! In this book, you will find the main ingredients you need to take your competitive intelligence program to the next level. You will learn how to build, manage, and optimize your program. You will learn how to move your program from the tactical to the strategic level of your organization. Most importantly, you will learn how to extract the most business value from the program. Let the journey begin!

Download or read book Advances in Competitive Intelligence written by John E. Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Market Intelligence written by Per V. Jenster and published by Copenhagen Business School Press DK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market Intelligence provides an overview of the most important tools and concepts relevant to intelligence analysis for strategic decision making. The book's focus is not only on competitors, but also on customers, suppliers, and a range of other stakeholders. It gives the reader tools used to analyze both micro and macro factors in the organization's environment to predict future outcomes better and to improve decision making. The field of competitive intelligence is studied by a diverse research community. Contributions to this field are made to aid States - on a national, regional, and local level - as well as to aid the military, non-profit organizations, and private companies. These contributions are mostly done in isolation, even though all these fields of study have much in common. The authors draw from these various fields and provide the essential insights to aid management thinking.

Download or read book Business Intelligence and Analytics in Small and Medium Enterprises written by Pedro Novo Melo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological developments in recent years have been tremendous. This evolution is visible in companies through technological equipment, computerized procedures, and management practices associated with technologies. One of the management practices that is visible is related to business intelligence and analytics (BI&A). Concepts such as data warehousing, key performance indicators (KPIs), data mining, and dashboards are changing the business arena. This book aims to promote research related to these new trends that open up a new field of research in the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) area. Features Focuses on the more recent research findings occurring in the fields of BI&A Conveys how companies in the developed world are facing today's technological challenges Shares knowledge and insights on an international scale Provides different options and strategies to manage competitive organizations Addresses several dimensions of BI&A in favor of SMEs

Download or read book Utilisation of Competitive Intelligence in Small and Medium Enterprises to Enhance Firm Performance written by Lynnette Magasa and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competitive Intelligence (CI) is the process of monitoring the competitive environment to help make informed decisions about marketing, research and development, and long-term business strategies. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can utilize CI tools for their own benefit, as they can get sufficient information to learn from big organisations about their successes and failures. These lessons on successes and failures of big organisations can help SMEs with the relevant strategies for their own development and success. The purpose of this research was to gauge the extent to which the utilization of CI gives rise to enhanced competitive performance in SMEs. The research aimed to achieve this by examining the roles of a selection of technological and specific environmental factors in enhancing competitive advantage for SMEs, within the Telecommunications Industry in South Africa, with focus on the Gauteng Province.

Download or read book Internet Business Intelligence written by David Vine and published by Information Today, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business intelligence--the acquisition, management, and utilization of information--is crucial in the global marketplace of the 21st century. This savvy handbook explains how even the smallest firm can use inexpensive Web resources to create an Internet Business Intelligence System (IBIS) that rivals the multimillion-dollar systems of Fortune 500 companies. IBIS tracks competitors, explore markets, and evaluates opportunities and risks. It can also be used to launch a business, find customers, test new products, and increase sales.