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Resources
Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management deal with the most valuable and least tangible assets in any organization: its competitive and intellectual capital. It is estimated that in 1975 over 80% of US equity market value was comprised of tangible assets: factories, machines and inventories. By 2007 less than 20% of a firm’s value was comprised of tangible assets.
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Professional Associations
There is a long list of professional associations that have all or some of their charter dedicated to serving the intellectual capital needs of business, government and non-profit organizations. The principal ones include:
The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
SCIP has a 25 year history of advancing the profession and educating CI practitioners through conferences and training events like CI 101 and 102.
The Special Libraries Association
SLA has active CI and KM divisions and a very large annual conference. The SLA offers mailing lists, webinars, training and certification.
The Association of Independent Information Professionals
AIIP is a very active group of mostly solo information and communication professionals. Many are former corporate or specialty librarians. They have an active and dedicated mailing list that responds to all kinds of search and collection questions. Member can access it. This working group is populated with some very interesting research specialties.
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