Conceptual models of different aspects of an organization— business objectives, processes, rules, policies and objects—have been used for organizational design, analysis, planning, and knowledge management. Such models have also served as starting points for designing information systems and conducting business intelligence activities. This paper proposes the Tactical Business Intelligence Mode...

Institutions of higher education can use competitive intelligence (CI) techniques to become more relevant to their communities. In Stepping Forward as Stewards of Place the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) provides a model for public engagement that emphasizes internal strategic planning, implementation, and assessment processes that involve regional communities a...

this study aimed at identifying the effect of managers' competitive intelligence on modernization of small industries in east azerbaijan province. in this study the competitive intelligence dimensions based on french management faculty theory which included (trade, technical, social, strategic awareness and competitors situation)on modernization of small industries indices have been studie...

A number of authors have expressed concern about our lack of knowledge of speedaccuracy strategies in intelligence tests. This study examines whether relations between intelligence-test performance and information-processing measures depend on individual differences in speed-accuracy preferences rather than on capacity limitations and whether the impact of strategic variables changes with incre...

In an unstable environment, enterprises are gradually realizing that there should be major changes in how they deploy their strategic resources to compete in the knowledge economy. In this paper, the role of competitive intelligence in South African manufacturing enterprises is examined. The difference between the industrial and the knowledge economy and the competitive intelligence function in...

the importance of obtaining market information via organization’s competitive intelligence considering the extensive changes which companies are experiencing in different areas like increased pressure of competition, emerging new technologies, privatisation in thier competitive environment is now more than ever and can highly affect organizational performance. hence this study assessed the effe...

Many agent-based models of financial markets have been able to reproduce certain stylized facts that are observed in actual empirical time series data by using “zero-intelligence” agents whose behaviour is largely random in order to ascertain whether certain phenomena arise from market microstructure as opposed to strategic behaviour. Although these models have been highly successful, it is not...

What a company needs to know about its business environment ( i.e., its activities, resources, markets, customers, products, services and costs) to plan for its current and future successful functioning needs to be disseminated organization-wide. One of the basic challenges for senior management is creating a mindset about the present and the future in order to anticipate trends and directions ...