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Summary: Excellent Handbook
Review: I can't believe a publisher would find this contributed to the body of knowledge on CI -- especially one as respected as McGraw-Hill! Of all the CI books on the market today, this is one of the least in terms of density of value. None of the things written herein were of ANY real use to me, because I'd heard it all before more times than I can recall! This is like going to a bad trade show -- costs a fortune and pretty light on real value. Pick up something from Fuld or Tyson instead if you want the very basics of CI. I really have to rethink my opinion of McGraw Hill after this.
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Summary: Its okay
Review: I found that after reading the book that all that I learnt could have been written in one chapter.The basic idea is good but I certainly did not learn very much.
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Summary: Excellent Handbook
Review: I found this book to be an excellent handbook for competitive intelligence. It is a book that outlines the basics in a way that companies can understand and implement. I have all the major books on CI and can say that every good CI author from Warroom to Fuld publicizes themselves. There are no fully comprehensive CI books available at a reasonable price for small businesses. I think that Warroom's guide and Fuld's books are a good addition to a basic CI library. The reviews here both good and bad were very misleading. I would say that the Warroom Guide is a good solid informative book to buy.
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Summary: War Room Good, CIA "Tricks" Bad Business
Review: I have mixed feeling about these guys, and their book, but the bottom line is that it makes a contribution and must be read. They address, in a manner understandable by the complete layman, the intersection of competitive intelligence, corporate security, and WarRoom operations. They have a number of very useful and thoughtful figures. The book is unquestionably at the head of the class with respect to WarRoom operations and exploiting information technology and basic planning and execution and visualization concepts. Where I have a real problem with this book is in its advocacy of elicitation and other deceptive techniques, no doubt a hang-over from Steven's days as a CIA case officer. There is absolutely no place in U.S. competitive intelligence for such methods, and any discussion in that direction must be forcefully opposed if we are to succeed in creating a legal, ethical, overt network of intelligence professionals able to reinforce each other in providing open source intelligence to businesses as well as non-governmental organizations.
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Summary: War Room Good, CIA "Tricks" Bad Business
Review: I have mixed feeling about these guys, and their book, but the bottom line is that it makes a contribution and must be read. They address, in a manner understandable by the complete layman, the intersection of competitive intelligence, corporate security, and WarRoom operations. They have a number of very useful and thoughtful figures. The book is unquestionably at the head of the class with respect to WarRoom operations and exploiting information technology and basic planning and execution and visualization concepts. Where I have a real problem with this book is in its advocacy of elicitation and other deceptive techniques, no doubt a hang-over from Steven's days as a CIA case officer. There is absolutely no place in U.S. competitive intelligence for such methods, and any discussion in that direction must be forcefully opposed if we are to succeed in creating a legal, ethical, overt network of intelligence professionals able to reinforce each other in providing open source intelligence to businesses as well as non-governmental organizations.
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Summary: Innovative and Practical for Today's eWorld
Review: Post 911, I have a different view of competitive intelligence. It should deliver value by anticipating risks to the total business environment instead of supporting librabrian research tasks - as amany of the SCIP members do. Thank you Messrs. Shaker/Gembicki for going beyond the typical pabulum and cooking up a strategy to address real business issues. I have applied your models to cross-industry applications with great success and at a fraction of the cost of deploying the Fuld Warroom, Gilad or Factiva models. In saving the best for last, I was introduced to your intelligence philosophy from friends at Microsoft and security geeks at AOL - both have war rooms. You are leading the pack gentlemen so realize that pioneers often wear arrows. When is the next book coming???? You two should have something to say about terrorism and business continuity as well.
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Summary: Innovative and Practical for Today's eWorld
Review: Post 911, I have a different view of competitive intelligence. It should deliver value by anticipating risks to the total business environment instead of supporting librabrian research tasks - as amany of the SCIP members do. Thank you Messrs. Shaker/Gembicki for going beyond the typical pabulum and cooking up a strategy to address real business issues. I have applied your models to cross-industry applications with great success and at a fraction of the cost of deploying the Fuld Warroom, Gilad or Factiva models. In saving the best for last, I was introduced to your intelligence philosophy from friends at Microsoft and security geeks at AOL - both have war rooms. You are leading the pack gentlemen so realize that pioneers often wear arrows. When is the next book coming???? You two should have something to say about terrorism and business continuity as well.
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Summary: Several good chapters
Review: The book has several chapters that make it worth purchasing. It has a good tradecraft discussion (on elicitation, body language, etc.) and the detailed description of the quarterback technique, denial and deception, and protection of trade secrets are all well done. The detailed analysis report on Aquila and Tacit Rainbow could have been left out without loss. Furthermore, the section on Cyber Collection is likely to be soon outdated, if not so already.
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Summary: Powerful Concepts!
Review: WarRoom's Guide to CI lays out a method of information gathering and decision support systems that have proved to be a very powerful package in the CI enviorment. I found the examples and implementations the authors provided to be very clear in terms of language and operation. If your looking for a powerful, refreshing, and cutting edge implemtation if CI/BI, this book is for you.
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Summary: WarRoom Operations
Review: We used the concepts of this book to create a war room, the use of the tools, caves and methodologies around it have helped us on using it effectively not only to review strategic intelligence but also to monitor the evolution of complex projects and business information. The digital war room is definitely a great tool that can help analyze advanced BI, KM, TQM indicators. A great resource to anyone trying to build this combination of decision support room, laboratory and multimedia meeting room.
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