A brief guide to competitive intelligence: How to gather and use information on competitors

Business Information Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 39-47

  Weiss, Arthur ^a  

^a managing partner of AWARE ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992816327     PISSN: 02663821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026638202321036222     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Based on Anne Barrowclough, ‘Barbie: her secretstory’, The Times, 3 Aug 1999, p.35-35; www.chass.utoronto.ca/%7Ethammond/Bpage31.htm; www.havenhouse.com/planetponytail.htm
2. www.scip.org/ci/
3. www.scip.org/ci/ethics.asp
4. The quotation given is based on a mixture of translations and isunattributable. For Art of War translation, see Khoo Kheng-Hor (1990)Sun Tzu’s Art of War: War At Work, Malaysia, Pelanduk Publications.
5. G. Hooley and J. Saunders (1993), Competitive Positioning: the Key to MarketSuccess, New York, Prentice Hall.
6. www.failuremag.com/history_content.html. (Article giving thehistory of the Edsel motorcar, with reasons for failure including a change in socialattitudes towards car size, compounded by an economic downturn.)
7. www.scip.org/Library/intell_cycle.pdf
8. W. Ashton and G. Stacey ‘Technical Intelligence in Business: Understanding technologythreats and opportunities’. International Journal of Technology Management, 10(1), 1995, pp. 79-104.
9. The 4Cs process has been developed by the author, and is also summarizedat www.competitive-intelligence.co.uk/competitor-analysis.htm
10. Jan P. Herring, Herring and Associates, Key Intelligence Topics: a process to identify and define iIntelligenceneeds. www.cipher-sys.com/Website.nsf/b51da56dd4d96ea48525699300701588/318b16826c81ec988525680900480f34?OpenDocument
11. www.ebr.org
12. www.companies-house.gov.uk
13. www.sec.gov
14. www.dnb.com
15. www.hoovers.com
16. www.skyminder.com
17. www.hemscott.net/
18. www.european-patent-office.org/
19. www.derwent.com/
20. www.moreover.com
21. www.factiva.com
22. www.lexis-nexis.com
23. www.dialog.com
24. www.datastarweb.com
25. http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/
26. Model based on L. Fahey (1999), Competitors: outwitting, outmaneuvering andoutperforming, London, John Wiley and Sons, p. 44-44.