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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.

AWARE News

Publications / Presentations

Arthur Weiss gave a conference paper on specialist search - finding names, numbers and news at the Online Information 2011 Conference as well as an exhibition seminar giving top tips for finding competitive intelligence online for use in primary reserarch. These can be downloaded on our publications pages. Arthur also led two sessions as part of WebSearch Academy at the Internet Librarian International Conference in October 2011 (Planning your Research & Social Media). (See our presentation & papers pages to download these).

2012 events so far confirmed include the Institute of Competitive Intelligence conference in Bad Nauheim, Germany (March 2012) - a workshop on online competitive intelligence, and a practitioner case study looking at how national cultures can influence primary research efficacy.

Several other workshops are planned - in both Europe and Asia. 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 evaluating competitor strategies, online research, marketing research, competitor analysis, scenario planning and much more.


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Books - Strategic and Competitive Analysis

Recommended Book

Strategic and Competitive Analysis
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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