ABSTRACT
The competitive intelligence (CI) profession, both in its collective manifestation as the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) and through the endeavours of individual practitioners and firms, can congratulate itself on having assembled a cornucopia of superb resources for further learning and undertaking business research. The author has found that each writer on CI worth reading approaches their task from a different angle and succeeds in delivering fresh insights. Hence every decent new CI text has something illuminating, stimulating and educative to offer to even the most experience practitioner. Competia is a global community of practitioners involved in CI and strategic planning. Most of its products such as Competia Magazine are only available to subscribers, but it also publishes three free monthly e-newsletters: CompetiaNews covering the latest developments in the CI sector. CompetiaTools dealing with the newest tools for business information retrieval and dissemination.
