Competitive Intelligence Foundation

This book, the second in a series entitled Topics in CI, covers the practice of primary information acquisition in conferences, seminars, symposia, and trade show settings. In 223 pages it provides outstanding contributions from some of the world’s most respected and experienced corporate, consulting, and academic competitive intelligence professionals.

by Diane E. Chido, Richard M. Seward Jr., Katrina M. Altman, James J. Kelly and Kristan J. Wheaton

From the Back Cover:
MCIIS has a research and production arm, the Center for Information Research and Analysis Training (CIRAT), through which qualified students deliver industry-standard open-source research products for a growing number of government and private agencies devoted to intelligence analysis.

by Stephen M. Millett and Edward J. Honton

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Technology forecasting is one of the most formidable challenges facing many organizations. In A Manager's Guide

Financial Accounting: Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses

by Clyde P. Stickney and Roman L. Weil

Recommended reading for the ICI workshop ICI-28

From the Back Cover:
This widely respected financial accounting text captures the predominant market share among graduate, MBA, and higher-level undergraduate programs.

by Adam L. Penenberg and Marc Barry

Optional Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-34

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A page-burning account of intrigue and espionage in the offices and boardrooms of today's corporations.

by John Hughes-Wilson and Colonel John Hughes-Wilson

Optional Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-26

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In this controversial book, a long-serving professional military intelligence officer gives an insider’s view of some of the great intelligence blunders of recent history.

The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving

by Morgan D. Jones

From the Back Cover:
An invaluable resource for any manager or professional, this book offers a collection of proven, practical methods for simplifying any problem and making faster, better decisions every time.

Accounting for Growth: Stripping the Camouflage from Company Accounts

by Terry Smith

Optional Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-28

From the Back Cover:
Accounting for Growth is a deliberate play on words: Was most of the growth seen in company profits during the 1980s due to the improved efficiency of British industry or was it generated from the manipulation of profits by creative accounting?

Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture

by Jamshid Gharajedaghi

Optional Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-30

From the Back Cover:
In a nutshell, this book is about systems. This book is written for those thinkers and practitioners who have come to realize that while the whole is becoming more and more interdependent parts display choice and behave independently, and that paradoxes are the most potent challenge of emergent realities.

Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate

by Michael Schrage

Optional Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-30

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Serious Play is about serious work: how the world's leading companies model, prototype, and simulate to innovate. Increasingly, prototypes are the key platforms and models are the core media for managing risk and creating value.

Commercial Espionage: 79 Ways Competitors Can Get Any Business Secrets

by Boris Parad

Optional Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-34

From the Back Cover:
Every business has valuable proprietary data, such as customer lists and research reports. This book succinctly describes corporate intelligence collection techniques including data theft, blackmail, and hiring away of employees.

by The Economist

Recommended Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-3

From the Back Cover:
An essential tool for those who seek to write with the clarity, style, and precision for which The Economist is renowned. This greatly expanded ninth edition gives advice on effective writing, points out common errors and cliches, offers guidance on consistent use of punctuation, abbreviations, and capital letters, and contains a comprehensive range of reference material?

Competitive Advantage through Analysis of Competition, Markets and Technologies

by Rainer Michaeli

Recommended reading for ICI-1

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In the modern world of business management, the aim of Competitive Intelligence (CI) is to gain competitive advantage through the investigation and analysis of market and competitive information. This book offers a fundamental and practical introduction to the conceptions, techniques and practice of CI. A number of case studies on international companies highlight the different aspects of CI in practice.

by Richard J. Heuer, Jr.

Recommended reading for ICI workshop ICI-6 and ICI-26

Book Description:
With intelligence now getting a front-row seat in governments around the world, this book is especially timely. Intelligence rains in, but without an understanding of the nature of the intelligence, it accumulates in puddles of obscurity. The problems therefore seem to be how to obtain it, how to understand it, and how to sell it to one's bosses.

Software for Technological Patent Intelligence: Evaluation of Software and Technological Intelligence Needs

by Juan Carlos Vergara, Alessandro Comai, Joaqui­n Tena Milla¡n and Emecom Ediciones

Optional reading for the ICI workshop ICI-27 and ICI-35

From the Back Cover:
What are the main functions used by professionals working in patent analysis? How much importance do users attach to these functions? What software is available for patent analysis and which software meets user requirements most satisfactorily?

L´intelligence économique

Les yeux et les orielles de l´enterprise

by Bruno Martinet and Yves-Michel Marti

Inteligencia Competitiva y Vigilancia Tecnológica

by Joquín Tena Millán and Alessandro Comai

by Edward R. Tufte

Recommended reading for the ICI workshop ICI-3

From the Back Cover
Edward Tufte's Beautiful Evidence is a masterpiece from a pioneer in the field of data visualization. His book in brilliant. The Galileo of graphics has done it again. It's not often an iconoclast comes along, trashes the old ways, and replaces them with an irresistible new interpretation.

by John J. McGonagle and Carolyn M. Vella

Optional reading for the ICI workshop ICI-1

From the Back Cover:
Competitive intelligence (CI) is now becoming a mature profession. With that maturation comes the need to develop and understand the how's and why's of managing CI, as distinguished from understanding how CI works.