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Competitive Intelligence Resources These resources can help you improve your Internet research skills, locate news and other critical background information, and stay on top of best practices used by competitive intelligence professionals. Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) www.scip.org This professional group for people involved in CI and other areas of knowledge management offers educational resources, advice on ethical practices, and events to keep you current on CI best practices. LexisNexis www.lexisnexis.com LexisNexis offers comprehensive online databases of news, business and legal information. Journalists, attorneys, CPAs and other professionals tap into these resources to locate news items, business developments, court decisions and more. BusinessWire www.businesswire.com PR Newswire www.prnewswire.com Read competitors' press releases to find out what they're doing and how they're positioning themselves. These comprehensive sites offer detailed search functions to let you find releases by date, topic, company and keyword. Search Engine Watch www.searchenginewatch.com More and more companies now post press releases, product sheets and other information online, and more and more news coverage from large and small cities is available online. To help you find online information more effectively, Search Engine Watch provides a compendium of the latest search practices and technologies. Dun & Bradstreet www.dnb.com D&B has an extensive database of credit and other corporate information, with records on more than 100 million companies worldwide. Businesses with 10 or fewer employees comprise 80% of its U.S. active file. D&B also owns Hoovers, a leading online source for company and industry information and intelligence. Fuld & Company www.fuld.com Fuld & Company is one of the leading business intelligence providers. Its site offers a range of free CI tools, including white papers, a glossary, excerpts from founder Leonard Fuld's book on CI, and several interactive tools related to assessing your CI program effectiveness. |
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