Proactive Intelligence The Successful Executive's Guide to Intelligence

“A book for executives about conducting CI and
proactively using intelligence to help make better decisions. … This how-to
manual is presented in clearly-written and carefully-organised text that
explains the CI process step-by-step. … This is a welcome addition to the
growing subject literature on competitive intelligence. It is carefully planned
and written, and it should serve intelligence practitioners well.” (Dale
Fehringer, Salus Journal, Vol. 3 (3), 2015)

"In short, this book is an extremely detailed, cogent guide for any executive who will be asked to take on competitive intelligence as a competency, duty, or discrete role… 
Proactive Intelligence
is a dense, well organized, concise tome for basically every concept you could possibly encounter in a traditional competitive intelligence role… From definitions of the specific kinds of intelligence – competitive, technical, strategic – to the variety of customers for CI – sales, R&D, product management, mergers & acquisitions – even to the legal and ethical challenges of the field, there really is every concept covered within these pages." (Eric Garland, ericgarland.co, June, 2012)