Competitive Intelligence Advantage: How to Minimize Risk, Avoid Surprises, and Grow Your Business in a Changing World

A practical introduction to the necessity of competitiveintelligence for smarter business decisions-from a leading CIexpert and speaker

In Competitive Intelligence Advantage, Seena Sharp,founder of one of the first Competitive Intelligence firms in theUS, provides her expert analysis on the issues and benefits of CIfor today's businesses. CI is critical for making smarter businessdecisions and reducing risks when formulating strategies, leadingto more profits and fewer mistakes.

This is a practical guide that explains what CI is, why data isnot intelligence, why competitor intelligence is a weak sibling tocompetitive intelligence, when to use it, how to find the mostuseful information and turn it into actual intelligence, and how topresent findings in the most convincing manner. Importantly, Sharpargues that businesses would benefit from shifting theirperspective on CI from viewing it as a cost to viewing it as aninvestment that saves money and provides immediate value.

• Author Seena Sharp is a noted CI expert who established SharpMarket Intelligence in 1979
• Addresses all the most common myths and misconceptions aboutCI
• Includes more than sixty examples of when to use CI
• Completely explains the ins and outs of CI, and why yourcompany will act faster and more aggressively with CI

Competitive intelligence is a management tool that ismisunderstood and underestimated, yet results in numerous benefits.If you are a senior level executive or operate a business-and youaren't tapping the power of CI to improve your decision making-youare missing a potent advantage.