Competitive Intelligence : How to Gather, Analyze, and Use Information to Move Your Business to the Top - Softcover

Kahaner, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684844044 ISBN 13: 9780684844046

Publisher: Touchstone, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

LARRY KAHANER is an award-winning journalist, lecturer, and consultant, and the author of nine books that have been translated into a dozen languages. He is a former Washington staff correspondent for BusinessWeek, reporter for Knight-Ridder newspapers and a founding editor of Communications Daily. He currently is Washington Editor of Fleet Owner magazine. He has written for InformationWeek, the Christian Science Monitor, the International Herald Tribune, the European, and Management Technology. He has been a guest on many shows including Larry King Live!, CNBC's Management Today, NPR's All Things Considered, and the Motley Fool Radio Show.
For more information go to www.talmudbook.com or contact the author at info@talmudbook.com.

From Library Journal:

Drawing from his broad experiences as a journalist, author, licensed private investigator, and consultant on intelligence matters for corporate clients, Kahaner gives us a practical guidebook about how many Japanese firms have competitive intelligence divisions as compared with the barely three percent of U.S. companies that practice competitive intelligence. Through illustrative case studies and examples, Kahaner shows Western companies how to establish competitive intelligence units and use them for advantage in the international environment. Kahaner explains what business competitive intelligence is and what it can do for a company; the methods and processes of executing intelligence and comparative facts about the role of competitive business intelligence in other countries, and dicusses pertinent issues such as cost and ethics, opportunities, and the future. A practical book recommended for upper-level business executives and professionals involved in business competitive intelligence; law-enforcement and government officials can also benefit.?Joseph W. Leonard, Miami Univ., Oxford, Ohio
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Touchstone
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0684844044
• ISBN 13: 9780684844046
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304