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Corporate Intelligence Awareness [book]
[9781895186420]

~~$43.95~~ $39.95

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by Dr. Tami Brady

Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008

Giving customers what they want. Creating quality products. Improving customer service. Making use of employee strengths. Wouldn't it be great if businesses actually focused on these aspects?

While many businesses are starting to realize the benefits of these concepts, the majority of managers are still looking for an edge to oust their competitors. Corporate Intelligence Awareness shows these individuals how to ferret out information to give them that extra advantage while assuring that they don't lose that upper hand through fellow employees who unwittingly give away important intelligence about their business environment.

Although it all seems a little cloak and dagger at first, really the program described is simply becoming more aware about situations that could potentially help your business succeed and then following through on that intuition. This same system can also be used to note employees that are pulling their weight or who are at risk of inadvertently telling company secrets.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

by Charles Ashbacher

Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008

It is common knowledge that the embassies of nations are listening posts for gathering information about what is actually taking place in the host country. For any nation to have an effective foreign policy, it is necessary for the leaders to be in possession of accurate information. That is understood and one of the reasons why the principle of diplomatic immunity was developed.

However, there are some general rules to this information gathering. Employing local nationals as spies is done, but if anyone on either side is caught, there are penalties. For a person convicted of spying against their nation, the general penalty is execution. At the diplomatic level, the person can be declared "persona non grata" and effectively expelled from the country.

Harding is a former career diplomat with the South African government and was awarded the Star of South Africa for his effective work in gathering intelligence and applying it to the development of strategy. In this book he relies on his experience to describe ways in which companies and organizations can gather intelligence without exceeding the bounds of acceptable behavior.

His recommendations are sound; they start with the development of the initial intelligence gathering strategy and proceed all the way up to the point where the person at the peak of the decision-making pyramid is given the final, distilled summaries. Throughout it all he continues to emphasize that the gathering of intelligence is an uncertain process, so all through the process, you must never lose focus on that fact.

This is a book that all people whose job description falls under the title, "Director of Strategic Planning" should read. For without a solid grounding in understanding where the world is going, it is impossible to determine where your path should lie.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

by Midwest Book Review (Paul T. Vogel)

Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008

Former South African government career diplomat Rodger Harding, who earned the Star of South Africa for his work in intelligence and strategy development, presents Corporate Intelligence Awareness, a no-nonsense guide for business managers to gathering, developing, analyzing and protecting confidential information. Real-life examples and anecdotes illustrate Harding's tested tips, tricks, and techniques for improving one's people-reading skills, maintaining strict ethics and absolute adherence to the law while keeping close tabs on one's business interests, and how to ensure that ever-changing competitive intelligence can be skillfully delivered to the right people at the right time in the chain of command. An excellent and invaluable manager's supplementary resource especially in the increasingly information-dependent twenty-first century.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

by Reader Views (William E. Cooper)

Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008

Corporate intelligence, or business information, is an absolutely essential commodity in today’s rapid and evolving management and organizational strategies and operations. A particular organization’s information/intelligence provides its competitive advantage; its ability to ethically collect and assess information about the competition enhances that advantage. Mr. Harding has produced a book, “Corporate Intelligence Awareness,” that is a must-have for managers and executives. He begins the book with a discussion about what intelligence is, how it works, and the best opportunities for its use. He also provides the reader with sound and comprehensive methodologies for protecting it from the all-too-frequent people who seek it.

As the former Chief of Police of a municipal police department, one of my responsibilities was protecting considerable amounts of personal and private information. While we had success the vast majority of time, our task would have been substantially easier by having had an education similar to what Mr. Harding provides here.

It has often been said that knowledge is power. In reality, applied knowledge is the real power. Apply what you learn in “Corporate Intelligence Awareness” and you will have a distinct advantage in your business.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]