Category: Intelligence (Commercial)

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Review: A New Archetype for Competitive Intelligence

4 Star, Intelligence (Commercial)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent first step in migrating toward 21st century CI,

April 8, 2000
John J. McGonagle
The authors are serious professionals with several competitive intelligence books behind them, and try in this book to relate the requirements of competitive intelligence to the emerging opportunities of the Internet and information tools-what they characterize and trademark as “cyber-intelligence”™. It's a good book, worth reading.
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Review: Secrets of the Super Searchers–The Accumulated Wisdom of 23 of the World?s Top Online Searchers

5 Star, Intelligence (Commercial)

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5.0 out of 5 stars “Master's Class” for Information-Driven Smart People,

April 7, 2000
Reva Basch
Reva, one of the top five information brokers in the USA, sought out and interviewed 35 professional or gifted amateur commercial online (fee for service) searchers and provides in this book a delightful free-flowing conversation with each of them as a “master's class” for intelligence and information professionals.
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Review: The Information Broker’s Handbook

4 Star, Intelligence (Commercial)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Basic of Starting an Information Brokering Business,

April 7, 2000
Sue Rugge
In contrast to Mary Ellen's book, this book is actually for self-starters who are thinking about creating their own small business and covers such excellent basics as the market for information, what an information broker does, the pros and cons of the information business, and then the tools, followed by chapters on marketing, pricing, and project management. Although seven years old now, I still regard this as a good starting point for those who would understand the information brokering business (a small niche within the larger open source intelligence business).
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1997 Intelligence and Counterintelligence: Proposed Program for the 21st Century

Intelligence (Commercial), Intelligence (Government/Secret), Intelligence (Public), White Papers
21st Century Intelligence
21st Century Intelligence

This is one of two seminal documents in circulation in the Spring and Summer of 1997. The financial numbers in this document were vetted and modified as necessary by Don Gessaman and Arnie Donahue–they are suitable for a President or a Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and still valid today adjusted for inflation. The other is the study done by Boyd Sutton on The Challenge of Global Coverage (click on the frog to go directly to that study.  In both instances, because the recommendations were at odds with the conventional bureaucratic desire to increase secret technical intelligence capabilities, the reports were ignored.

Sutton on Global Coverage
Sutton on Global Coverage
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1996: CREATING A SMART NATION: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence & Information

Articles & Chapters, Asymmetric, Cyber, Hacking, Odd War, Best Practices in Management, Change & Innovation, Complexity & Resilience, Consciousness & Social IQ, Decision-Making & Decision-Support, Democracy, Education (General), Education (Universities), Information Operations, Information Society, Information Technology, Intelligence (Collective & Quantum), Intelligence (Commercial), Intelligence (Government/Secret), Intelligence (Public)
Smart Nation
Smart Nation

“CREATING A SMART NATION: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, & Information,” pp. 77-90.