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Association Belge de Documentation / Belgische Vereniging voor Documentatie INFORUM2009

Arthur Weiss, AWARE's managing partner led a session focusing on social networking and how this can be used to enhance marketing intelligence at ABD-BVD's Inforum2009: It's all about people conference at the end of April, 2009. The lecture showed how marketing and competitive intelligence professionals can use social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn and others as part of their portfolio of research tools.

For more information on these lectures and how we can help you become a more effective business researcher ask us about our courses on finding CI information.

WS Radio Interview

Arthur Weiss was interviewed by Paul Helm, the president of Strategic Research Network, as part of the InfoPro show on WS Radio - The worldwide leader in Internet talk.

Listen to the whole interview or in separate parts (around 10-15 minutes each)

Books - Art of the Long View

Recommended Book

The Art of the Long View
Peter Schwartz
Buy UK £ or US$
This is an excellent introduction and guide to scenario planning.

Read our review of this book

If there is one book that is head and shoulders above all the other on the subject of scenario planning, this is it. Schwartz's book is a joy to read and gives a tremendous introduction to the subject, leaving the reader with a firm grounding and understanding in the way that scenario planning has helped many companies gain competitive advantage in their industries. The text includes many case studies and anecdotes making it a must-read book. Peter Schwartz is not only one of the world's leading scenario planners - but an excellent writer also.

For more recommendations visit our book selection.

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Quick Tip: Questions

Quick Tip

A key competitive intelligence skill is the ability to distinguish what you do know from what you don't know. The effort is then to find out sources for the unknown information - as the great English writer, Dr Samuel Johnson said:

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Unfortunately even with the knowledge there can be problems. Lewis Branscomb - the US physicist and Harvard management professor once said:

People rarely distinguish among data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. But they are as different from each other and as interlocking as starch molecules, flour, bread, and the flavorful memory of a superb morning croissant.

The aim of competitive & marketing intelligence is to turn data into something that can lead to competitive advantage in the same way that your morning croissant or loaf of bread depends on flour and water interacting to make something that is more than just a mixture of the raw ingredients.

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Competitive Intelligence Training

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Institute of Competitive Intelligence
UK Course Schedule

ICI holds regular public training in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. The next UK based ICI courses will take place during the Spring 2010 in central London.

If you register 40 days in advance, deduct 5% from total fees.

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Further information on the Institute of Competitive Intelligence.

Finding Competitive Intelligence using Online Sources

AWARE consultants are experts at discovering competitor information online and have developed a market-leading course on Finding Competitive Intelligence using Online Sources. This course has been given as an in-house course to numerous companies across industries (e.g. IT, publishing, telecoms, chemicals....) and countries, as well as publicly at SCIP annual and European conferences (e.g. the SCIP 2008 Annual Conference in San Diego, California), the London International Online Information Conferences and other similar events.

The workshop has received high praise for its unique approach to finding competitive intelligence on the Internet. The workshop - available as a half-day or full day in-house training course - teaches attendees how to find actionable competitive intelligence rather than just present a list of sources that quickly date. Like all AWARE's in-house training, the course can be customised to focus on industry or competitive area.

For more information on this workshop and how it can help you become a more effective Internet researcher check out our Competitive Intelligence Training and ask us about our courses on finding CI information.

Our services in competitive intelligence research, competitor analysis and CI training will help you integrate and use competitive and marketing intelligence in your business, strategic and marketing planning processes. Whether you need research, advice or training, our mission is to support our clients so that they achieve their growth objectives.

For the best UK & European competitive intelligence and competitor analysis services, contact us today.

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