Managing Frontiers in Competitive Intelligence - Hardcover

Blenkhorn, David L.; Fleisher, Craig S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567203841 ISBN 13: 9781567203844

Publisher: Praeger, 2000

Synopsis

For specialists and nonspecialists alike, this perceptive selection of the newest and up and coming tools and techniques of competitive intelligence, offering a well balanced combination of theory and practice. It shows how advances in computers and technology have accelerated progress in CI management, and the ways in which CI has affected (and been affected by) all major business functions and processes. It explores applications to organizations of various sizes and types, in both the public and private sectors. Editors Fleisher and Blenkhorn link leading-edge research in CI to advances in current practice, and balance pragmatic against conceptual concerns. Analysts, strategists and organizational decision makers at higher levels will find the book especially valuable, as they seek to make sense of the business environment and assess their organizations' evolving, dynamic places in it.

The pace of change in today's global, competitive economy is greater than at any time in recorded history. Thus, as never before, companies need better tools for business and competitive analysis. The book surveys applications of CI that are critical to business processes, such as mergers and acquisitions, and to evolving industries, such as biotechnology. They focus on how push and pull Internet technologies affect data gathering and analysis and how CI can be managerially assessed using multiple evaluative approaches, unavailable until now in the public domain. They then turn to the future, and lay out some startling yet plausible viewpoints on what the next frontiers of competitive intelligence will be and how organizations can and must ready themselves for them.

About this title

About the Author

Craig S. Fleisher is the Dean, School of Business and Public Affairs, College of Coastal Georgia, USA. He was 2006 President of the international association of Strategy and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), inaugural chair of the Competitive Intelligence Foundation, founding editor of the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management, a SCIP Meritorious Award winner and Fellow. He was named one of Canada's top MBA professors in Canadian Business magazine.

David L. Blenkhorn is Professor of Marketing at the School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. There he teaches, researches, and consults in the areas of competitive intelligence, business-to-business marketing, customer relationship management, and supply chain management. With Craig S. Fleisher, he is co-editor of Controversies in Competitive Intelligence and Managing Frontiers in Competitive Intelligence.

Blenkhorn and Fleisher are co-editors of Competitive Intelligence and Global Business as well as Controversies in Competitive Intelligence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567203841
• ISBN 13: 9781567203844
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328