• Articles of interest.
• Books of interest.
• Press releases.
• Trade show tips.
  
  
  Articles of interest.
   
  Adding external knowledge to business web sites. Marydee Ojala.Online, July 2002, v26 n4 , p57.
   
  Busting the myth of the global user. Leslie Jacobs and Mary Corcoran. Online, July 2002, v26 n4, p60.
   
  The competitive edge. Don Lynkins. Internet World, July 1, 2002, v8 n7 p56.
   
  The enemy within. The Engineer, August 9, 2002, p9.
  
  Hidden CI in company websites. Business Researchers Network, July 2002, v2 n7, p4.
   
  Flying high with business intelligence. Pimm Fox. Computerworld, July 29, 2002, v36 n31 p20.
  
  The future of strategy: historic prologue. Richard Oliver. Journal of Business Strategy, July 2002, v23 n4, p6.
  
  Handling a new competitor. Alexander Garrett. Management Today, June 2002, p78.
   
  How capture teams win: assessing the competition, crafting the solution and influencing the customer ensure that a company wins the contract before the RFP. Michael O’Guin. Contract Management, August 2002, v42 n8, p28.
  
  Mining patent database tracks patent infringement. Online Product News, June 2002, v21 n6.
  
  Numbers runners. Journal of Business Strategy, July 2002, v23 n4, p3.
  
  Protecting proprietary information. John Di Frances. CPA Journal, June 2002, v72 n6 p13.
  
  The surreptitious shutterbug. Joe Queenan. Chief Executive,  July 2002, p72.
  
  Ten things you really need to know about your competitors. Julian Blackmore and Terry Kendrick. Management Services,  July 2002, v46 n7, p16-18.
  
  Virtual vulnerabilities. Information Management Journal, July 2002, v36 n4, p11.
  
  Why not protect an invention as a trade secret? Canadian Electronics, June 2002, v17 n4, p7.
  
  
  Books of interest
  
  Business innovation and disruptive technology: harnessing the power of breakthrough technology for competitive advantage. Nicholas D. Evans. Financial Times Prentice Hall, August 2002.
  The author explains how to discover powerfully disruptive technologies more quickly, evaluate them more accurately, and implement them more profitably. He presents business-focused introductions to rapidly maturing technologies such as Web services, real-time computing, and P2P, then previews crucial trends like "software as a service," as well as next-generation technologies such as grid computing, electronic tagging, and location-based services.
  
  Managing in the next society. Peter Drucker. St. Martin’s Press, July 2002.
  This is a compilation of essays culled from previously published material. Drucker covers trends, emerging industries, and management and sociological changes that can adversely affect or expand the bottom line for businesses. Two main themes are explored: the movement away from a manufacturing-based to a service-oriented economy specializing in industries such as technology, health care, and management; and the changing shape of our society to come.
  
  Milennium intelligence, edited by Jerry Miller, is now available in Portuguese. http://shopping.terra.com.br/artmed/product.asp?dept%5Fid=401&pf%5Fid=26550
  
  Washington Researchers books: new editions. Washington Researchers has released new editions of two books: “Researching Private Companies,” and  “How to Find Information About Divisions, Subsidiaries, and Products.” http://www.washingtonresearchers.com/
  
  
  Press releases
  
  A new release of Scirus, the science web search engine, has more subject-specific content and features such as expanded information types. The index now contains over 100 million science specific pages. August 22, 2002.  www.scirus.com
  
  Nielsen/NetRatings AdRelevance service gives insight into when, where, how and how much companies are advertising online. Advertisers, marketers, media planners, publishers, and financial analysts use Nielsen/NetRatings services to analyze campaigns and build competitive knowledge. PR Newswire, August 21, 2002. www.nielsen-netratings.com.
   
  Webversa has completed the acquisition of Semio. Semio provided content categorization and indexing software for portals and knowledge management applications. August 19, 2002. www.quickresponsetechnologies.com
  
  Global Securities Information will offer its LIVEDGAR product through the LexisNexis service. August 16, 2002. www.lexisnexis.com
  
  Inxight, a provider of software solutions for understanding and effectively using unstructured data, experiences significant growth in the first half of 2002. Inxight’s products (MetaText Server and Categorizer) deliver information from unstructured sources such as web pages, email and word processing documents. August 13, 2002  www.inxight.com
   
  Intelliseek announced the availability of Enterprise Search Server ™ (ESS) 4.0 software, an application that makes searching for relevant up-to-date information and competitive intelligence more robust, yet easier than ever for corporations, government agencies and enterprises. PR Newswire,  August 13, 2002. www.intelliseek.com
  
  EDGAR Online’s new feature, Compliance Scorecard, tracks the filings of over 900 companies that certify the accuracy of their new financial service. It provides the names of the CEOs along with a summary and link to the certifications as they are submitted. www.edgar-online.com
  
  The Conference Board’s Organization Chart Collection can now be downloaded through the Conference Board’s website. PR Newswire, August  7, 2002. www.conference-board.org/charts
  
  PlanetFeedback, a division of Intelliseek, has completed its acquisition of technology and intellectual property assets of Opinion, Inc. to enhance its flagship product line BrandPulse. August 7, 2002. www.planetfeedback.com
  
  
  Trade Show tips.
   
  When you need to get up to speed on an industry or market you don't know much about, here are some sites to help get you started.
  
  About.com http://www.about.com
  From the home page, click on Industry for a guide to over 40 industry sectors, arranged in eleven categories. Choose your target industry and you'll find links to associations, government sources, companies in the industry, meetings and headline news. Excellent first stop if you aren't sure where to look for industry information.
  
  Hoover's Industry Links http://www.hoovers.com/industry
  From this portion of the Hoover's site, choose "Explore Industries," then "Industry Links" to find a list of industries.  Choose your industry and you'll get another list of seven categories associations, news, trade shows and conferences, directories, etc.) for that particular industry.
  
  Industry Desk http:// www.virtualpet.com/industry/mfg/mfg.htm
  Home pages for a wide variety of industries. The industry is listed with the name of the site below it and a link.
  
  Industry Links http:// www.industrylink.com
  Industry related resources for 25 industry categories, such as electronics, engineering, industrial marketing, material handling, oil and gas, and power and energy. A nice feature of this site is that, once you choose your industry, it tells you how many sites are listed, as well as what type of site it is (e.g. resource, manufacturing, service, etc.).
  
  From: The Intelligence Weekly, a newsletter from Washington Researchers. http://www/washingtonresearchers.com
   
  Copyright Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.
  
  SCIP.online, volume 1 issue 15, September 5, 2002.

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