In today’s fast-paced business environment, having a strong understanding of the competitive landscapeis more important than ever. As old saying goes, “knowledge is power,” and this especiallytrue when it comes to staying ahead competition.Competitive intelligence process gathering, analyzing, disseminating informationabout products, services, strategies company’s competitors in order gain stra...

In this paper, we propose a basic framework of acquiring enterprise competitive intelligence from microblogs. With the rapid development of microblogging services, how to utilize microblogs for business decision has been a hot topic. We first analyze the types of enterprise competitive intelligence in microblogs and classify them into internal intelligence and external intelligence. Then, we pr...

THISARTICLE PRESENTS A BRIEF CONSPECTUS of current issues in civilian competitive intelligence (CI). The authors note an extension of the concept beyond the traditional focus on business competition and highlight emergent tools and techniques (networking and groupware) which allow the concept to be more generally operationalized in terms of social advantage. They conclude with some reflections ...

The overreliance on quantitative, numeric information and the underuse of qualitative, textual information is a common weakness in strategic management. This affects particularly the practice of competitive intelligence, which aims to provide actionable information about the company-external environment for decision making. Yet, forward-looking and insightful information about the environment o...

INTRODUCTION Competitive intelligence (CI) has become a very important source of information for business planning and other activities. CI is generally considered to be the set of legal and ethical methods used to gather information about competitor activities from public and private sources. CI provides information about the present and future behavior of competitors, suppliers, customers, te...