VMS
-- maintains global advertising library with various reports on advertising
spend by company and market
TNS Media
Intelligence/CMR --
leading provider of marketing communication and advertising expenditure
information to advertising agencies, advertisers, broadcasters and publishers.
Publishes industry summaries and forecasts. Can also obtain company
info.
Company Data -- sources for general data on specific companies.
See below links for compliance and other info
OSHA Data -- private supplier of
regulatory compliance data. Must sign-up to use and pay for information
EPA Envirofacts Data Warehouse --
one stop source for environmental information. Lists discharge data by
company, providing insight to plant capacity and processes
EPA -- can search by company to learn
regulatory compliance
Scorecard -- alternative to EPA
site. Tracks hazardous materials release. Sponsored by
Environmental Defense
Open Secrets --
political contributions recorded at the Federal Elections Commission by
companies and individuals
FBI -- you may want to search for fraud
investigations
Standard Directory of Advertisers -- contains exclusive information on
over 24,000 U.S. and international advertisers who each spend more than
$200,000 annually on advertising. Each listing includes advertising
expenditures by media, current agency, fiscal year-end and annual sales,
contact information on key personnel, brand name info, S.I.C. classifications
and other key data. Must purchase
AdRelevance -- tracks Internet
advertising. Can obtain information on your competitors.
WHOIS --
search WHOIS database to find who owns a domain name
Market Relevance -- helps you
understand your marketplace by giving you the who, what, when, where and why
of other marketers’ promotions, primarily direct mail. Offers free 3-day
trial
Trade Shows -- a wealth of information
yours for the asking. Use these directories to target shows you need to
attend
Fuld and Company -- includes white papers on
competitive intelligence, links to other resources, and information on their own company
ZoomInfo -- look-up info by company
and person.
Also offers subscription to find current employees and more robust searching
Watch That Page -- a
service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your
favorite pages on the Internet. You select which pages to monitor, and
WatchThatPage will find which pages have changed, and collect all the new
content for you. The new information is presented to you in an email and/or
a personal web page. You can specify when the changes will be collected, so
they are fresh when you want to read them. The service is free, but
professional and heavy users are requested to pay a fee.
Compete -- Web
analytics service to see how many visitors go to competitor Web sites
Colorado Connection
Colorado Secretary of State -- find
information about Colorado companies and licensees. Also, you can find who
is contributing to political campaigns
Department of Regulatory Agencies
-- protects the public interest by regulating businesses and individuals such as
banks, telephone companies, doctors, insurance companies, electricians and
accountants.
InfoTech Marketing --
Littleton, Colorado (Denver suburb) based company that sponsors this site.
Check out InfoTech Marketing's capabilities.
American Productivity and Quality Center -- provides benchmarking reports
on
marketing,
new product development,
sales,
strategy, and more. Must purchase many repots, but can download
useful executive summaries for free.
NIST National Quality Program -- sponsors of
the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award. Includes quality reference materials, winners
profiles, and application materials.
Annual Statement
Studies -- numerous ratios organized by SIC/NAICS from over 150,000
statements submitted to members of the Risk Management Association. Can
purchase in various formats.
Key Business Ratios --
14 business ratios for solvency, efficiency, and profitability from Dun &
Bradstreet. Must purchase
American Customer
Satisfaction Index -- a uniform and independent measure of household
consumption experience. The ACSI is produced through a partnership of the
Stephen M. Ross Business School at the University of Michigan, the American
Society for Quality (ASQ), and the international consulting firm, CFI Group.
Epinions.com -- reviews and prices of
various consumer products
Rateitall.com -- an online community
and social network built around one of the most extensive and diverse online
databases of opinions, ratings, and reviews in the world.
Consumerreview.com -- a source of
user-generated buying advice for outdoor sporting goods and consumer
electronics.
Bizrate.com -- consumer reviews and
prices. Affiliated with shopzilla.com
Planet
Feedback -- ratings of various companies, with comparisons to competitors
Online Competitive Intelligence : Increase Your Profits Using
Cyber-Intelligence -- by Helen Burwell, Carl R. Ernst, Michael Sankey.
Paperback. 41/2 Star Customer Review. 464 pages. This
unique, readable guide reveals inside information on "where to find" and "how
to use" the best commercial and Internet sources to achieve success in today's
business environment. This work emphasizes the use of this data to assess and
develop corporate strategies that will beat the competition to the
marketplace, build and retain market share, and maximize profits.
Competitive
Intelligence: How to Gather, Analyze and Use Information to Move Your Business to
the Top -- Larry Kahaner. Paperback. 5 Star Customer Review.
Synopsis
This book takes readers beyond the Information Age and into the Age of Intelligence,
explaining how to turn the raw facts, statistics, and numbers about competitors'
activities and market trends into practical guidelines for making the right business
decisions. "Help separate the useless from the useful".--"USA Today".
BOMC Selection National print and radio publicity.
The
Warroom Guide to Competitive Intelligence -- Steven M Shaker and Mark P Gembick.
Hardcover. 4½ Star Customer Review. Book Description: The WarRoom Guide to Competitive Intelligence will put readers on the front lines of
the business battlefield. "Intelligence" is defined as "information
concerning the enemy," and in The WarRoom Guide, co-founders of War Room Research LLC
(former "spooks" themselves) teach business people how to gather and manage the
flow of this information, and then act upon it, in order to vanquish their competitors.
This book shows managers how to develop their own competitive intelligence
organizations; systematically collect, analyze, and disseminate important information; and
understand the fundamentals of intelligence and the issues and requirements that affect
key decision-making. Using a trade show for a case study, the authors take readers through
the entire process of collecting competitive intelligence.
Controversies in Competitive Intelligence : The Enduring Issues -- by
Craig S. Fleisher and David L. Blenkhorn. Hardcover. 344 pages.
2003. 24 individual papers about competitive intelligence. Themed
around External Context-Specific Issues, Data Collection and Analysis,
Evaluation and Control, and Organizational Issues.
Benchmarking
for Best Practices:Winning Through Innovative Adaptation -- Christopher E Bogan
and Michael J English. Hardcover. 5 Star Customer Review. Synopsis: Packed
with dramatic case studies, this step-by-step guide shows managers how to adopt the
seminal benchmarking techniques revolutionizing quality at companies like Federal Express,
AT&T, and other industry leaders. Features timesaving tips, evaluation charts, graphs,
ethics, and antitrust guidelines. 50 illus.
The 8 Practices of Exceptional Companies: How Great Organizations Make the
Most of Their Human Assets -- Jac Fitz-Enz. Hardcover
Reviews Business and Investment Editor's
Recommended Book Business and Investment Editor's
Recommended Book What makes an organization great? After a four-year study of
more than 1,000 companies worldwide, management consultant Jac Fitz-Enz says it is
people--and the way they are developed and nurtured. In The 8 Practices of Exceptional
Companies, he presents the top "human asset management" practices uncovered
during his search and shows how other organizations can adopt them as their own. The
result, he contends, will be higher profits along with more committed employees.
