by Diane E. Chido, Richard M. Seward Jr., Katrina M. Altman, James J. Kelly and Kristan J. Wheaton

From the Back Cover:
MCIIS has a research and production arm, the Center for Information Research and Analysis Training (CIRAT), through which qualified students deliver industry-standard open-source research products for a growing number of government and private agencies devoted to intelligence analysis.

by Stephen M. Millett and Edward J. Honton

From the Back Cover:
Technology forecasting is one of the most formidable challenges facing many organizations. In A Manager's Guide

Financial Accounting: Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses

by Clyde P. Stickney and Roman L. Weil

Recommended reading for the ICI workshop ICI-28

From the Back Cover:
This widely respected financial accounting text captures the predominant market share among graduate, MBA, and higher-level undergraduate programs.

by John Hughes-Wilson and Colonel John Hughes-Wilson

Optional Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-26

From the Back Cover:
In this controversial book, a long-serving professional military intelligence officer gives an insider’s view of some of the great intelligence blunders of recent history.

The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving

by Morgan D. Jones

From the Back Cover:
An invaluable resource for any manager or professional, this book offers a collection of proven, practical methods for simplifying any problem and making faster, better decisions every time.

Accounting for Growth: Stripping the Camouflage from Company Accounts

by Terry Smith

Optional Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-28

From the Back Cover:
Accounting for Growth is a deliberate play on words: Was most of the growth seen in company profits during the 1980s due to the improved efficiency of British industry or was it generated from the manipulation of profits by creative accounting?

Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture

by Jamshid Gharajedaghi

Optional Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-30

From the Back Cover:
In a nutshell, this book is about systems. This book is written for those thinkers and practitioners who have come to realize that while the whole is becoming more and more interdependent parts display choice and behave independently, and that paradoxes are the most potent challenge of emergent realities.

Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate

by Michael Schrage

Optional Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-30

From the Back Cover:
Serious Play is about serious work: how the world's leading companies model, prototype, and simulate to innovate. Increasingly, prototypes are the key platforms and models are the core media for managing risk and creating value.

by The Economist

Recommended Reading for the ICI workshop ICI-3

From the Back Cover:
An essential tool for those who seek to write with the clarity, style, and precision for which The Economist is renowned. This greatly expanded ninth edition gives advice on effective writing, points out common errors and cliches, offers guidance on consistent use of punctuation, abbreviations, and capital letters, and contains a comprehensive range of reference material?

by Richard J. Heuer, Jr.

Recommended reading for ICI workshop ICI-6 and ICI-26

Book Description:
With intelligence now getting a front-row seat in governments around the world, this book is especially timely. Intelligence rains in, but without an understanding of the nature of the intelligence, it accumulates in puddles of obscurity. The problems therefore seem to be how to obtain it, how to understand it, and how to sell it to one's bosses.

Software for Technological Patent Intelligence: Evaluation of Software and Technological Intelligence Needs

by Juan Carlos Vergara, Alessandro Comai, Joaqui­n Tena Milla¡n and Emecom Ediciones

Optional reading for the ICI workshop ICI-27 and ICI-35

From the Back Cover:
What are the main functions used by professionals working in patent analysis? How much importance do users attach to these functions? What software is available for patent analysis and which software meets user requirements most satisfactorily?

by Edward R. Tufte

Recommended reading for the ICI workshop ICI-3

From the Back Cover
Edward Tufte's Beautiful Evidence is a masterpiece from a pioneer in the field of data visualization. His book in brilliant. The Galileo of graphics has done it again. It's not often an iconoclast comes along, trashes the old ways, and replaces them with an irresistible new interpretation.

Business Blindspots: Replacing Your Company's Entrenched and Outdated Myths, Beliefs and Assumptions With the Realities of Today's Markets

by Benjamin Gilad

Recommended reading for the ICI workshop ICI-26

Competitors: Outwitting, Outmaneuvering, and Outperforming

by Liam Fahey

Recommended reading for the ICI workshop ICI-21

Book Info
Provides a new integrated, comprehensive method for analyzing the competition, a method developed by the author during his 15 years of consulting, researching, & teaching competitor analysis in cutting-edge companies in the U.S. & Europe.

The Art and Science of Business Intelligence Analysis: Intelligence Analysis and Its Applications

by Ben Gilad and Jan P. Herring

Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth and Scott D. Anthony

Recommended reading for the ICI workshops ICI-27, ICI-32 and ICI-33

Book Description
This book argues that it is possible to predict which companies will win and which will lose in a specific situation—and provides a practical framework for doing so.

The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World

by Peter Schwartz

Recommended reading for the ICI workshop ICI-22 and ICI-31

From the Back Cover
What increasingly affects all of us, whether professional planners or individuals preparing for a better future, is not the tangibles of life—numbers, for instance—stories—scenatrios—and our ability to visualize different kinds of futures adequately capture these intangibles.

Keeping Abreast of Science and Technology: Technical Intelligence for Business

by W. Bradford Ashton and Richard A. Klavans

Recommended reading for the ICI workshop ICI-27

Book Description
Keeping Abreast of Science and Technology tells readers how to develop, manage, and use their own technical intelligence programs to gain the competitive advantage.

Strategic and Competitive Analysis: Methods and Techniques for Analyzing Business Competition

by Craig S. Fleisher and Babette Bensoussan

Recommended reading for the ICI workshop ICI-6 and ICI-31

Book Description
This book comprehensively examines the wide spectrum of techniques involved in analyzing business, competitive data, and information.

Business and Competitive Analysis: Effective Application of New and Classic Method

by Craig S. Fleisher and Babette E. Bensoussan

Recommended reading for ICI workshops ICI-6 and ICI-31

Book Description
It's a fact - excellent analysis is key to a successful business. However, the vast range of possible analysis tools decision-makers can use for their business is staggering. This book breaks it all down and provides its readers with 24 commonly applied methods for helping decision makers with their business, as well as addressing the process of competitive analysis itself.