Web has been one of major information sources for enterprises to acquire competitive intelligence. However, traditional approaches focus on collecting Web pages and fail to generate practical competitive intelligence from Web pages. Another problem in the research on Web-based competitive intelligence is that Web pages may contain a lot of incredible information which will have big influence on...

The authors report on the growing importance of competitive intelligence as a management practice in the majority of leading companies. Reviewing the history and definition of competitive intelligence, they then go on to distinguish types of competitive intelligence, to analyse the competitive intelligence process, and identify five categories of attitudes towards competitive intelligence. The ...

today, such organizations are successful and can continue to grow and survive in the competitive conditions that try to make use of thoughts and new ideas and identify needs and environmental opportunities and exploit to their benefit the actions that other organizations are doing in order to gain a competitive advantage and thereby, they can prevent the possible threats that will arise in the ...

Today, such organizations are successful and can continue to grow and survive in the competitive conditions that try to make use of thoughts and new ideas and identify needs and environmental opportunities and exploit to their benefit the actions that other organizations are doing in order to gain a competitive advantage and thereby, they can prevent the possible threats that will arise in the ...

This article introduces the notion of social competitive intelligence, meaning competitive intelligence (CI) for the networking organization. A novel socio-technical framework called the Social CI Framework (SCIF) is presented, intended for analysis and design of social CI processes, methods and tools. By using a socio-technical perspective, both social and technical aspects are considered toge...

The paper argues that competitive intelligence is a vital function and attempts to study how it is distributed, especially by technologies, within organizations. Related topics, the sources of competitive intelligence, and who distributes and receives competitive intelligence, are also addressed. A literature-based study is extended by a quantitative survey of members of the Society of Competit...