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Links to other strategic resources
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General Resources
- Future think (for profit) (GBN) Global Business Network, founded in 1987, is a unique network of organizations and individuals committed to reperceiving the present in order to anticipate the future and better manage strategic response.
- Some of the best world news coverage (Financial Times) Free access to global business news and analysis, special reports and key data on companies and markets.
- Fast Talk Where the Fast Company Magazine community shares stories, asks questions, and communicates common interest.
- Community of Friends (COF) Locally based virtual business community hosted by Fast Company Magazine
- Arrow Direct-Local area direct mail house
- Bain and Company-Direct link to the Boston office of Bain and Company
- Harvard Bookstore-Competitive Advantage Breakfast Series
- Michael Hammer -Read chapters from Michael Hammer's new book, "The Agenda".
- Wipro Technologies - Previously Nervewire -consulting for
super institutions, capital markets, banking and insurance
industries.
- Paap Associates - Consulting on CI programs and studies. Site has articles on CI and links to CTI sites.
- Profit Patterns Mercer Management Consulting, Building on the ideas in Mercer Management Consulting's new book Profit Patterns, this site is the home of pattern thinking.
- Steve Teleen on Intranets Intranet Organization:Strategies for managing change.Steve Teleen coined the term "Intranet" and this points directly to some of Steve's white papers on resources for intranets.
- Scenario Planning A resource for scenario and market intelligence projects for Fortune 500 clients and for those who are looking for alternative strategies as well as alternative outcomes.
- The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry Professor Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, Brandeis University's Graduate School of International Economics and Finance shares his insights on what makes strategic alliances work.
- Emerald Insight Home of Strategy & Leadership Magazine and publishes the world's widest range of management journals on strategy, leadership, information management, marketing and human resource management.Their portfolio is made up of over a hundred leading management and library and information services titles. Their online full text service contains over 35,000 articles from more than 100 management journals, complete with full text archives back to 1994.
- IEEE Documents IEEE offers Ask*IEEE, an automated interface for ordering IEEE journal and transaction papers, magazine articles, and conference papers. You'll find easy access to the information you need in the form of Electronic delivery of many IEEE documents, Improved content from thousands of other publishers, and online order information available anytime
Collaboration
Online Databases Several commercial databases exist that provide fee based access to technical and news sources. The following are among the most widely used.
- Dialog Corporation More than 600 industry databases
- Dow Jones Interactive Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing have been replaced by Factiva.com.
- Links to informational resources (Electric Library) Conduct real research over the Internet, using this deep database
- Ingenta - merged with UnCoverWeb to provide database of over 26,000 multidisciplinary journals - updated daily; available by subscription or 'pay as you go' basis.
- Lexis-Nexis - For smaller firms, try the 'Lexis-Nexis Universe' web based database of articles from general news and trade journals.
- Nerac - very popular with technology based organizations.
- Northern Light - While generally thought of as a web search engine, it also covers thousands of journals and business pubs.
- Thomson Financial - Database on M&A, Joint Ventures and Alliances through the SDC Platinum Database.
Competitive Intelligence
- Arcchart - Provides visualization tools and reports on IT related industries.
- CHI Research - CHI's strengths are in Patent Citation analysis.
- Cipher - Sells proprietary CI software products, but web site has good list of on line tutorials (streaming audio) about CI from some of leading practitioners.
- Fuld & Company, Inc. - Info on firm plus a list of internet sites (includes industry links) and a strategy page that identifies types of information you might want to gather for different types of business decisions.
- Goldridge - provides comprehensive visualization of inter company linkages based on public reports.
- Internet CI - An online resource of annotated links to internet CI resources. Requires subscription.
- Intota -Sopheon-Teltech, on-line directory to experts in multiple disciplines. Based on old Teltech expert database.
- Mogee Research Associates - Expertise in patent mapping and patent citation analysis - strong international resources.
- Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals Homepage SCIP
- Sopheon-Teltech - Proprietary databases and custom portals for companies needing specialized access to multiple internet sites and databases.
- Washington Researchers Home Page
- Rich database and interaction opportunities (BRINT Business Research) Creation and dissemination of knowledge on contemporary business, management, strategy and information technology issues.
Science and Technology
Patent Information
Raising Capital
Newspapers/Journals/Periodicals
Company and Industry Information
- Business-in-depth - Links to business news sections of hundred of newspapers globally.
- Business Wire - Basic profiles for major corporations; links to corporate web pages; press releases going back several years.
- Corporate financials online
- Corporate information - Links to profiles available on line from other sites.
- Edgarscan - Interactive search of EDGAR database with results in easy to read tables.
- Hoover's Company Profile Online - Basic info (address, sales, officer) available to all; modest annual fee gives unlimited in-depth profiles. Good starting point with links to patents, officers, web site, news releases, etc.
- Internet Intelligence Index -- Fuld & Company, Inc. - Intelligence index provides links to several hundred sites sorted by industry.
- InvestQuest - Info on public firms and lists of recent IPO filings.
- IPL Associations on the Net (AON) - Comprehensive links to associations.
- KnowledgeExpress - Provides searchable links to growing number of companies - large and small - sorted by technology. Includes listings of current university collaborations, patents, and more. Requires subscription.
- PR Newswire Home Page - 'Company news' provides press releases for 3 years from submitting firms.
- PRARS - Public Register's Annual Report Service - Provides annual reports on many firms.
- The Co-op Home Page - National Cooperative Business Association - Links to co-ops.
- Thomas Register - Comprehensive index of manufacturing firms, free.
- Internet News on stocks- forward from previous Wall Street research net, provides links to dozen of info sources for target firm - mostly financial, some news.
Government Sites
International
Trade Shows
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