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Competitive Intelligence Magazine
April - June 2010
Influencing for Success
Kasandra Husar and Rom Gayoso. Our ability to deliver value is intrinsically connected to our skill in influencing people and the amount of credibility we have. Our influence increases when we gain business acumen, have a good understanding of our audience, and utilize effective communication styles.
The Death of the Competitive Intelligence Professional
Kenneth Sawka. Are organizations better off hiring, training, and developing full-time CI professionals, or equipping other businesspeople with basic intelligence skills that are add-ons to their existing roles and responsibilities? A strong case can be made for both.
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November 17, 2009
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JCIM (Journal)
March 1, 2008
p. 01-02: Co-Editors' Letter, Vol. 04 No. 03
Roberta Brody, Queens College of the City University of New York, USA
Sheila Wright, De Montfort University, UK
This issue of the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management contains four peer-reviewed articles. The first of these articles, “Issues in Defining Competitive Intelligence: An Exploration” considers how CI is currently defined in the literature and who defines the term. James W. Hesford’s “An Empirical Investigation of Accounting Information Use in Competitive Intelligence” presents a study in the use of competitors’ accounting information by individuals engaged in competitive intelligence. “Competitive Intelligence as a Driver of Co-evolution within an Organization Population” by Mirva Peltoniemi and Elisa Vuori explores what might be the interactive and reactive consequences of CI activities within a population of competing organizations. Finally, “The Emergence and Uniqueness of Competitive Intelligence in France” by Jamie Smith and Leila Kossou considers French approaches to Competitive Intelligence.
p. 03-16: Issues in Defining Competitive Intelligence: An Exploration, Vol. 04 No. 03
Roberta Brody, Queens College, City University of New York, USA
This article begins by considering how some major organizations in North America address the definition of the term "competitive intelligence." That is to say, it attempts to set this exploration in the current contexts in which the term is used and defined. It attempts a synchronic exploration of current definitions and descriptions of CI by considering competitive intelligence as a term used in a body of documents and in document surrogates as represented by assigned indexing terms or controlled vocabulary metadata. Results suggest that there is not a definite description of the field. Descriptions and definitions were mostly process oriented but some defined CI in terms of products and final deliverables.
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