 AWARE Competitive Intelligence Resources
Favourite non-business & Fun Sites
This list gives a number of favourite sites, sites that link to us and non-business / CI-related sites that we have found particularly interesting. If you would like to be included on this page, include our site on your pages and contact us. We'll take a look at your pages and if we feel that they are suitable, then we will add them to this page or one of our other pages.
We hope that you enjoy the links on these pages or find them useful. We have attempted to categorise sites by subject. You should also check out our competitive intelligence links site - giving a number of great links for competitive & marketing intelligence professionals.
If you are interested in learning more about using the Internet and online sources for competitive intelligence research, contact us. Or visit our Services Page to see how we can help you today!
General Reference Material, etc.
Telephone Directories, etc.
Travel Information - Hotels, Airports, Flights, etc.
Miscellaneous Business Sites, etc.
Entertainment listings
Kids Stuff, Information for school projects & Computer Games
Apple & Computer Stuff
Humourous & Fun Sites
We try and keep all links up-to-date. However sites frequently change or disappear. Please let us know if you find any dead links, or if you want us to add your site onto any of our source pages.
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AWARE News
In March 2012, Arthur Weiss, AWARE's CEO, was elected to serve as Membership Development Director of the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP). (Press Release). AIIP is the organisation for independent information specialists and has a global membership with expertise covering all aspects of the information profession. Visit the AIIP web-site to find out more and to join us. Arthur also led two pre-conference workshops at AIIP's May 2012 conference in Indianaposlis, USA.
Publications / Presentations
AWARE's CEO led a workshop on Online Competitive Intelligence at the Institute of Competitive Intelligence's conference in Bad Nauheim, Germany in March 2012 and gave a paper looking at how national cultures can influence primary research efficacy.
Other recent events included: training workshops held in Jakarta, Indonesia and Shanghai, China; conference papers / seminars at the Online Information 2011 Conference and at the WebSearch Academy, Internet Librarian International Conference.
See our presentation & papers pages for more information or to download these.
If you are interested in competitive intelligence training and workshops contact us, or visit our training pages. We offer custom training looking at all aspects of marketing & competitive intelligence including online research, marketing research, competitor analysis, scenario planning, war-gaming and much more.
Visit a summarised anthology of AWARE's Twitter feed
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Books - Strategic and Competitive Analysis
Recommended Book
Strategic and Competitive Analysis: Methods and Techniques for Analyzing Business -
Craig S. Fleisher & Babette Bensoussan
Buy UK £ or US$
Read our review of this book
This book provides an excellent review of the most common techniques of competitive and strategic analysis - giving instructions on how to use each technique, when to use it, and each technique's pros and cons.
The book should be on every strategic planner and competitor analyst's "must have" list and is essential reading for business studies and MBA students. The book covers all the main analysis techniques:
- the Boston Box
- financial analysis,
- Porter Analysis,
- Value Chain Analysis,
- Blindspot analysis,
- SWOT analysis,
- PEST analysis
and many more.
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