Strategic and Competitive Analysis: Methods and Techniques for Analyzing Business Competition
Author: Craig S. Fleisher, Babette Bensoussan
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ISBN: 0130888524
Publisher: Prentice Hall (29 March, 2002)
Sales Rank: 6,594
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent coverage of management analysis tools
This book fills a niche that should have been done by somebody a long time ago. It includes most of the popular analysis techniques that a management consultant would normally use, and provides a common process description for employing the method. It makes an excellent complement to Porter's series of books and can be nicely combined with more conceptual treatments in the strategy field. I have already bought several copies for my office colleagues as it will be useful for them in their consulting work as well. I can see why it has gotten many good reviews and I'd concur with these. It is worth having this one on your book shelf although, like me, you may find yourself pulling it off the shelf to refer to on a frequent basis.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Useful techniques
I'm using this book as support in my consultancy assignments. I agree with the other reviewers that it has many useful methods presented in a unique way. The FAROUT thing confused me at first, but makes sense once you actually start using it. Now I refer to it before reading the chapters. This is the best book I've seen yet covering analysis methods and should help most any consultant who does analysis work.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Selected as "the" text for government all-source analysts
Rather than outline the wonderful aspects of this book, which other reviewers have done so ably, I will just say that I rank the authors up there with Ben Gilad (Israel), Mats Bjore (Sweden), and Jan Herring, Dick Klavens/Brad Ashton, and Leonard Fuld (USA), and we have made this book "the" text for the annual government all-source analysis training that centers on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).
This book, in combination with Ben Gilad's "Early Warning", the Leonard Fuld's "New Competitor Intelligence", Dick Klavens and Brad Ashton's "Keeping Abreast of Science & Technology", and Mats Bjore forthcoming book, are the essential five books for any business intelligence professional or anyone seeking to understand best in class business intelligence.
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