APQC best practice reports: special SCIP discount.
For a limited time, SCIP members can receive a 15% discount off the retail price of all APQC CI publications (see full story for details). APQC offers a wide array of competitive intelligence books and best-practice reports based on their extensive research. Order these publications directly from APQC by calling 800-776-9676 and providing the SCIP promotional code SCIPMEM. Additional information on titles is available at APQC’s online bookstore at
www.apqc.org/pubsCompetitive Intelligence: a guide to your journey to best practice processes (2004)List $19.95; SCIP members $16.95
The newest title in the popular Passport to Success series details what CI is and how to develop and manage a CI program. Based on key finding from APQC’s six consortium benchmarking studies on CI, this straightforward guidebook also details how to coordinate actionable intelligence, including science and technology intelligence, and attend to the CI audience.
Complete Competitive Intelligence package (2003)List $1500; SCIP members $1275
This six volume set, gives a detailed analysis of how best practice organizations capitalize on CI. This set includes the next six titles listed below.
1. Competitive and Business Intelligence: leveraging information for action (1997)List $395: SCIP members $335.75
Learn how leading organizations us CI for strategic planning and key decision making. The results from APQC’s first CI consortium benchmarking study examines key finding in CI operations, information technology techniques to support CI, ways to gather and disseminate intelligence information, and identification of customer needs.
2. Managing Competitive Intelligence Knowledge in a Global Economy (1998)List $495; SCIP members $420.75
See how best-practice organizations effectively manage CI knowledge. Discover that successful management of CI knowledge within an organization can be modeled in a five step process: focus the CI knowledge management efforts, implement CI knowledge creation, institutionalize CI knowledge, change and hone CI efforts. The report presents 11 key finding within this model.
3. Developing a successful Competitive Intelligence Program (2000)List $495; SCIP members $420.75
Based on a benchmarking study conducted in partnership with SCIP, this best practice report focuses on developing a CI structure, mobilizing resources to implement a CI program, creating action-oriented products and services to improve the speed and quality of decision making, and measuring and improving a CI program.
4. Strategic and Tactical Competitive Intelligence for Sales and marketing. (1999)List $395; SCIP members $335.75
Learn how top organizations make the most of custom-fit CI information – specifically that tailored to benefit the sales and marketing functions. This best practices report presents finding from a study conducted by APQC and SCIP in four categories: organizational structure, CI knowledge in sales and marketing, strategic vs tactical CI and measuring results.
5. User driven CI: crafting the value proposition (2003)List $495; SCIP members $420.75
This report details how best-practice organizations develop close, working relationships with users and how CI is applied during implementation. Along with in-depth case studies, the report examines: process and tools for understanding CI user needs and actions, engaging and educating CI users, how users set the ethical tone of CI in the organization, defining formal structural and operational links between CI professionals and users, soliciting and incorporating user feedback, and calculating CI’s return on investment and linking activities to revenues.
6. Using Science and Technology intelligence to Drive Business Results (2001)List $295; SCIP members $250.75
This report summarizes the findings of the fifth consortium benchmarking study on CI conducted by APQC and SCIP. It focuses on how best-practice organizations organize science and technology intelligence (STI) programs, integrate STI into decision making, and initiate and refine an STI program.
