In an article with the title “Managing your competitive intelligence function” you can find an excerpt from the book “Competitive Intelligence: A Guide for Your Journey to Best-practice Processes” by by Paige Leavitt, John Prescott, Darcy Lemons, Farida Hasanali.
In order to give you an idea of it, you can read here is an excerpt from the excerpt:
When performing strategic planning for any company - online and/or offline - it is helpful to complete an analysis that takes into account not only your own company, but your competitor’s companies and the current business surroundings as well. Considering SWOTs is one such analysis.
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The Fuld-Gilad-Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence (ACI) is offering CI 101®Online, an online course on competitive intelligence, with interactive videos, discussion forums, and self tests. It is about the fundamentals of CI.
Even though it is not a substitute to a face-to-face class it might be considered as an introduction to the CI world.