AWARE Competitive Intelligence Resources
Recommended Web Sites for CI Research

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 this page.

Go to the top

Return to index of CI sources

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.

Visit a summarised anthology of AWARE's Twitter feed

Recommended Book

Co-opetition : 1. a revolutionary mindset that redefines competition and cooperation; 2. the game theory strategy that's changing the game of business
Adam M Brandenburger & Barry J Nalebuff
Buy UK £ or US$

Read our review of this book

For more recommendations visit our book selection.

Quick Tip

The Talmud (the main source for Jewish law and tradition other than the Bible) tells a parable about a gathering of all the animals in nature. The lion was asked why he was the king of all the beasts. He replied:
Because I can roar the loudest, and when I roar, everyone else is silent.
At that point, the thrush stood up and said:
That may be true, but if we go a mile or so from where you are roaring, your roar is not heard. However when I begin to chirp, all the birds chirp along with me and the whole forest is filled with song.

Making an impact and influencing others does not depend on how loud you shout to put over your own views.
It depends on influencing people so that everybody sings from the same song-sheet.
Silence does not necessarily signify approval.
It may just indicate that people are scared to argue with you.

When everybody joins in and contributes, then you can be sure that you will reach agreement!

Competitive Intelligence Training

Copyright © AWARE 1995-2011