Super Searchers On Competitive Intelligence

Revealing their secrets for monitoring competitive forces and keeping on top of the trends, opportunities, and threats within their industries, this book presents 15 leading CI researchers and their hard-earned secrets.

Bates, who does the same sort of work, interviews 11 researchers who use the Internet and online services to find critical business information. They reveal how they choose sources, evaluate search results, and tackle projects. The collection launches a series treating online research in different subject areas. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

In this book, medical librarians, clinical researchers, health information specialists, and physicians explain how they combine traditional information sources with the best of the Net to deliver just what the doctor ordered. If you use the Internet and online databases to answer important health and medical questions, this book will help guide you around the perils and pitfalls to the best sites, sources, and techniques.

Using an expert interview approach to primary research, this book shares secrets from professional researchers for integrating online skills with interviews, hands-on public records research, and documents and printed materials not available on the Internet. Provided are tips and resources for using online research to locate sources, prepare for interviews, and evaluate information. Topics covered include getting through gatekeepers, obtaining hard-to-find information, and using primary sources to complement online research.

Interviews with expert researchers reveal to day traders and investors the secrets for finding investment-related information online. The best Web sites, online databases, and other electronic resources used by investment professionals to gather and analyze market data are detailed. Experts interviewed include researchers from General Motors Investment Management Corporation, State Street Global Advisors, Oliver Wyman & Company, and other top firms.

Offering the advice, insights, experiences, and encouragement would-be Internet entrepreneurs need to establish a successful independent research business, this book provides an insider's view of Internet businesses and their unique services. Eleven entrepreneurial super searchers representing a broad range of topic specialities and business focuses are interviewed. Also discussed are the details for getting started, developing a niche, finding clients, doing the research, networking with peers, and staying well informed about Web resources and technologies.

This guide details how and where M&A experts go online to compile lists of companies that are in the market to buy or sell, find the prices paid for similar businesses, and identify legal issues that may surface in a deal. Business researchers will find sources for hard-to-find information on companies that may be privately held, subsidiaries of another company, or based outside of the United States.

This book asks experts to reveal strategies for finding international business information on the Web. Through a series of interviews, exploration of the challenges of reaching outside a researchers area of knowledge is detailed.