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Editor: James W Bronson (The University of Wisconsin, USA)

Contributors: Kellie Goldfien, Ryan Wolford

Reviewer: William A Drago, (University of Wisconsin, USA)

At the conclusion of this chapter, you should be able to:

  • define competition and competitive intelligence
  • differentiate between parallel products and substitute products
  • state the goals of competitive intelligence
  • discuss public sources of information for competitive intelligence
  • understand the role of industry structure in competitive intelligence
  • complete a competitor analysis

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Source:  OpenStax, Business fundamentals. OpenStax CNX. Oct 08, 2010 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11227/1.4
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