Advances in Applied Business Strategy

Part 1: who needs intelligence - strategic intent and strategic intelligence, Ben Gilad; organizing intelligence activities from offensive analysis to the organization and management of intelligence activities, Ben Gilad, creating the intelligence system that produces analytical intelligence, Jan Herring; users and producers - an executive perspective of competitive analysis, Gary Costley, risk, trust and corporate vision - linking business intelligence to the Ceo, Max Downham, the Ceo and the Ci professional - big impact partners, Martha Eger, a topology of information needs, Yves-Michel Marti; strategic planning - out thinking the competition - intelligence for strategic planning, David Harkleroad and Ken Swaka, analysis in business planning and strategy formulation, Tim Powell, the role of backcasting in competitive strategy, Clement K. Wang and Paul D. Guild, the role of intelligence in strategic planning, Steve Miller; decision support - the cost of ignoring the competition in marketing, Nancy Forbes, integrating Bi into marketing and sales strategy - an approach using simulation modelling, Cynthia Allgaier, an overview of business intelligence analysis for science and technology, W. Brad Ashton. Part 2 Intelligence analysis and its applications: early warning - providing effective early warning - business intelligence as a strategic control system, Tony Page, early warning analysis - preventing management surprises, Charles Mathey; competitive assessment - bull's eye! taking aim with targeted competitive assessments, Todd Hooper and Linda S. Lund, valuation of electric utility assets in an emerging competitive environment, Paul Yatcko, competitive intelligence and benchmarking in practice, Karsten Berlage and Markus Sulzberger, counterintelligence analysis, Bill Degenaro; intelligence analysis and intelligence collection - intelligence analysis as part of collection and reporting, Michel Belkine, new title Tk, Douglas Bernhardt, the art and science of collection management, Tony Page, information impact on the Bi process, Bonnie Hohhof.