Links to CIC Resources

Here are some suggested websites and sources to assist you in your Strategy Formulation efforts:

Alerts/Newsclipper/Monitoring Services
Ad Facts; Bizstats; Dow Jones; InfoBeat; NewsAlert; NewsEdge; Tracerlock; The Smoking Gun; Watchlist/Edgar Online; WebWhackerAssociations: VCA Association Directory

Annual Reports
Free Annual Reports;

Balanced Scorecard – Kaplan and Norton’s Site

The Palladium Group

Benchmarking Resources
APQC Best Practices; Benchmarking Sources; Best Manufacturing Practices;. The Benchmarking Exchange

Browser Assistants /Translation
Babelfish; Gurunet

Business
BIZlink; BRINT Research Institute; Business Directory from Texas A&M; CEO Express; Country Studies and Area Handbooks; Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR); Galaxy Directory: Business and Commerce; Information Please Almanac; KnowX; McKinsey Quarterly; National Trade Data Bank; Rice University; U.S. Business Statistics; University of Michigan; Wall Street Research Net; Webliography; .xls ; Strategy + Business

Careers
Indeed: RiteSite; Resume Reach; The Vault Career Research; America’s Job Bank Info; BrassRing; Career Web; Careerbuilder; Careers.wsj.com; Headhunter; High Tech Job Search; The Ladders; LinkedIn Jobs; Los Angeles Times; Monster Board; Philadelphia Online; The Ripley Guide; Yahoo! Careers Now (Hot Jobs); InsuranceJobs; Job-Applications.com.

Company Information
Business.com; Company Finder; Corporate Information; Hemscott UK; Hoover Company Listings; Individual; InterNet Bankruptcy Library; IRIN; Morningstar; Public Register’s Annual Report Service; SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval); Starting Point; Thomas Register; U.S. Federal Subcontractor Directory; Wall Street Research Net

Competitive Intelligence Sites
SpyFu; Manning & Napier Information Services; Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals; CI Seek; Strategis; Wall Street Transcript, Promere.

Conference Call Schedules
Bestcalls.com; CBS Marketwatch

Copywriter’s Roundtable

Copywriters; Express Voice

Corporate Filings
Free Public Records; InvestQuest; SEC; SEC Info; US private Company Public Records; Watchlist/Edgar Online; 10K Wizard

Credit Report Resources
Info USA; Dun & Bradstreet; Experian; Transunion

Decision Effectiveness

Bain & Company – Decide and Deliver

Direct Mail Tracking

Comperemedia

Economic Trends – Global

World Economic Forum

Executive Compensation
AFL-CIO; ROB Magazine

Facebook News

All Facebook

General Business Internet Resources: Knowledge Management Resources Brint; CIO Magazine KM Research Center; KMWorld; Hoovers.com

General Reference
AllWords.com; How Much is That Worth Today?; Library Spot; TechEncyclopedia; Time and date.com; Travel Health Online

Government Agencies
CBDNet; Congress and Government Resources; Environmental Protection Agency;; FirstGov; Infomine; National Insititute Of Standards and Technology; National Science Foundation; Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Securities and Exchange Commission; U.S. Bureau of the Census; U.S. Business Advisor; U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economics and Statistics; U.S. Government Online Gateway; U.S. National Technology Transfer Center

Government Issues / Contract Awards
Loren Data Corp.’s Commerce Business Daily

Healthcare

AHA

Helpful Information Sites/Services
CRM: Best Practices from the field; Dialog; Dow Jones Interactive; Dun and Bradstreet; FT Profile; Ingenta; Knowledge Express; Knowx.com; Lexis-Nexis Universe; Market Research; McKinsey; Multex; Northern Light;PR and Marketing Network; Society for CI Professionals; Spacy Proxy; Tech Republic; Tracerlock
Ovitz Taylor Gates – Management resources for enterprise projects, offering how-to workbooks, project plans and planning guides, tools, templates and checklists. A valuable Management resource.

 

Interactive Marketing
PEW Mashable; UCLA Internet Law list of links; New Media; eCRM Guide; Internet PR Guide; ClickZGuide; ECommerce Guide; Internet Mail Consortium; Marketing Terms; HUBSPOT; Ed Osworth’s Internet Marketing IndexIPOs

IPO Express; IPO Monitor; ROB MagazineIT and Technology News

Ken Radio

Job Applications – hundreds of Job applications available at Job-Applications.com

Libraries

Marketing Virtual Library; Harvard Libraries; Internet Library Catalog; MIT Libraries; National Library of Medicine; The Library of Congress Catalog; The WWW Virtual Library

Market News
Motley Fool; CBS Marketwatch; Bloomberg; Wall Street City; CNBC

Marketing

Marketing Terms; International marketing; Marketing online; AMA site; WilsonWeb; See Interactive Marketing

Management

Management Issues

Market Research
Ads of the World; Bizstats; Red Herring; Fast Company; Company Sleuth; Companies Online; Compere Media; Redbook; Trendwatching; Conference Board Stats; Open Secrets

Merger/Acquisition Information
Mergerstat.com; MergerNetwork.com;

Modeling Tools

Jim Novo’s Web Site

Miscellaneous Reports
10K Wizard; Edgar Online

New Economy Sources
Industry Standard; Fast Company; Business 2.0; Red Herring; ZD Net; Wired News

Newsgroups / Message Boards
Raging Bull; Motley Fool;

Newspaper & Magazine Databases
AJR NewsLink; Newspapers.com; Yahoo; Bizjournals; The Internet Public Library

Organizational Effectiveness Simulator

Booz & Company

Patent and Copyright Information The Copyright Website; Espacenet; MicroPatent; Official Gazette; Patent Explorer; Patent Search System;The Intellectual Property Network; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Phone Directories Reference USA; Big Yellow; Canada 411; Yahoo; Info Space: The Ultimate Guide; Switchboard; Telephone Directories on the Web; Yahoo Telephone Directories

Private Equity

A List of Heavy Hittersat PEGC.org

Research Competitor’s Products
US Patents and Trademark Office; Delphion Intellectual Property Network

Research Complaints
Better Business Bureau; US Securities and Exchange Commission

Research Consumers’ Reviews
U.S. Census; Consumerreview.com; Pew Internet Stats; U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

Research Job Databases
Monsterboard; Career Path

Research Legal Cases
The Federal Judiciary; AllLaw.com

Researching Private Companies
Forbes; Red Herring

Research Public Information
Search Systems

Risk Management for the Enterprise:

Ernst & Young report; Coso.org;

Conference-board.org

Search Engines & Directories
Alta Vista; Ask Jeeves; Become; Bing; Dogpile; Excite

; FINDSPOT; Google; HotBot; Internet Resource Guide Directory; Lycos; Metacrawler; Newest Internet Resources; Northern Light; Search Engine Showdown; Yahoo

SEC Filings
US SEC – Edgar Database

Spam/eMail Checking Software

Spamhaus; Mail Check

Speeches

Riveting talks by remarkable people at TED

Statistics FedStats; Stat-USA; Statistics.com

Stock Quotes
E-trade; Netscape; CNNfn; Red Herring; NasdaqWall Street Journal

Trade Associations and Organizations
ASAE; Internet Public Library; Yahoo

Trade Shows/Conferences
Expodatabase; TSNN.com; Tscentral.com

Twitter Yellow Pages

Web Site Development

Useit; Web Pages That Suck;Microsoft Office Live; All Who Is;DNS Stuff; 1 and 1; SedoWeb 2.0

Web 2.0 Summit

Word of Mouth Marketing

WOMMA

 

Some Interesting News Sites:

Today’s Front Pages – Newseum.org – PDF files from front pages of newspapers across the world.

The Paperboy – searchable directory of newspapers from around the world.

Listing of 25,000 newspapers from around the world – searchable by country and then by publication.

Clickable Map of the USA. All Newspapers within a State and a listing of newspapers.

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