Monitoring the Competition

Monitoring the Competition PDF

Author: Leonard M. Fuld

Publisher:

Published: 1988-02-16

Total Pages: 232

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Presents guidelines on how to develop and implement a program for monitoring the activities of business competitors. The author interviewed executives at 100 corporations and found that the most successful monitoring programs were extremely similar. The guidelines in this book are based on those programs. Fuld explains how to develop a competitor intelligence program without a large investment in computers or staff, why the ``low-tech'' route is often the most effective, how to communicate intelligence information to the decision makers, the importance of ethical guidelines, and how to conduct an intelligence audit to uncover a company's existing intelligence resources.

Lessons from International Experience with Electricity Market Monitoring

Lessons from International Experience with Electricity Market Monitoring PDF

Author: Frank A. Wolak

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 23

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More than 10 years of experience with the electricity industry restructuring process has shown that market failures are more likely and substantially more harmful to consumers than other market failures because of how electricity is produced and delivered and the crucial role it plays in the modern economy. Wholesale market meltdowns of varying magnitudes and durations have occurred in electricity markets around the world, and many of them could have been prevented if a prospective market monitoring process backed by the prevailing regulatory authority had been in place at the start of the market."