Industry Tutor

From the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida, Industry Tutor offers a ten-step guide to industry intelligence. Each step is about a paragraph long and is filled with hyperlinked resources that will best help users complete each step. For example, Step Three, “Find Current News and In-Depth Articles about the Industry” includes links to CNNfn and dowjones.com, as well as other resources. … [ Read more ]

Amazon Your Industry: Extracting Value from the Value Chain

The inefficient, tradition-bound, $4 billion trade-book industry is using the Internet to unlock an additional $2 billion-plus.

Editor’s Note: this article claims to identify a number of Internet axioms worth consideration by dot-com startups and traditional retailers alike. I didn’t find those at all persuasive or helpful. What I did find interesting was the detailed description of the publishing industry.

FCC-State Link

This site provides access to Reports and Data prepared by the Common Carrier Bureau’s Industry Analysis Division. Some reports available include: Statistical Trends in Telephony, Statistics of Communications Common Carriers, Telephone Industry Infrastructure, Telephone Numbering Facts, The Long Distance Telephone Industry, The Local Telephone Industry, and Competition in the
Telecommunications Industry.

Wireless Everything

Businesses are harnessing the technology to spur sales and give workers an edge