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2014-06-26T17:01:29Z
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Content Accessibility and Semantic Networks Processed on Foreign Natural Language Analysis
Dousset, Bernard
El haddadi, Anass
Mothe, Josiane
Text mining
graph
Semantic network
Social network
Weak signals
Competitive Intelligence
In this paper we present a methodology that makes it possible to mine a document collection from a domain without knowing the language in which the documents are written. We describe in detail a method, tools and results that can be used within a digital library context for Science Watch and Competitive Intelligence. We consider a collection associated with the aquaculture domain written in Chinese and extracted from a digital library. Based on the original coding (UNICODE) of the data and the tag marking the structure of the documents, we extract key elements (authors, phrases, etc.) from within the domain and analyse them. The results are displayed in the form of graphs and networks. We extract people networks and semantic networks before examining their evolution over a period of several years. The principles developed in this paper can be applied to any language.
Adhou Communication AB
2011-12-31
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10.37380/jisib.v1i1.10
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011): Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/10/pdf_1
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.10.g18
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/11
2014-06-26T17:01:29Z
JISIB:ART
Using XBRL Technology to Extract Competitive Information from Financial Statements
Ditter, Dominik
Henselmann, Klaus
Scherr, Elisabeth
Financial Intelligence
XBRL
Competitive Intelligence
real-time Business Intelligence
The eXtensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL, is a reporting format for the automatic and electronic exchange of business and financial data. In XBRL every single reported fact is marked with a unique tag, enabling a full computer-based readout of financial data. It has the potential to improve the collection and analysis of financial data for Competitive Intelligence (e.g., the profiling of publicly available financial statements). The article describes how easily information from XBRL reports can be extracted.
Adhou Communication AB
2011-12-31
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/11
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.11
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011): Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/11/pdf
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.11.g25
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/12
2014-06-26T17:01:29Z
JISIB:ART
Methodology of Integration for Competitive Technical Intelligence with Blue Ocean Strategy: Application to an exotic fruit
Salvador, Marisela Rodríguez
Reyes, Manuel Alejandro Bautista
Competitive Technical Intelligence
Blue Ocean Strategy
Anacardium Occidentale
This article presents a new methodology that integrates Competitive Technical Intelligence with Blue Ocean Strategy. We explore new business niches taking advantage of the synergy that both areas offer, developing a model based on cyclic interactions through a process developed in two stages: Understanding opportunity that arise from idea formulation to decision making and strategic development. The validity of our approach (first stage) was observed in the evaluation of an exotic fruit, Anacardium Occidentale, in the South of the State of Veracruz, Mexico with the support of the university ITESM, Campus Monterrey. We identified critical factors for success, opportunities and threats. Results confirm the attractiveness of this crop.
Adhou Communication AB
2011-12-31
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Case Study
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/12
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.12
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011): Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
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2001-0168
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/12/pdf
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.12.g4
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/13
2014-06-26T17:01:29Z
JISIB:ART
Information Design for “Weak Signal” detection and processing in Economic Intelligence: A case study on Health resources
Sidhom, Sahbi
Lambert, Philippe
Economic Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Information Design
Weak Signals
The topics of this research cover all phases of “Information Design” applied to detect and profit from weak signals in economic intelligence (EI) or business intelligence (BI). The field of the information design (ID) applies to the process of translating complex, unorganized or unstructured data into valuable and meaningful information. ID practice requires an interdisciplinary approach, which combines skills in graphic design (writing, analysis processing and editing), human performances technology and human factors. Applied in the context of information system, it allows end-users to easily detect implicit topics known as “weak signals” (WS). In our approach to implement the ID, the processes cover the development of a knowledge management (KM) process in the context of EI. A case study concerning information monitoring health resources is presented using ID processes to outline weak signals. Both French and American bibliographic databases were applied to make the connection to multilingual concepts in the health watch process.
Adhou Communication AB
2011-12-31
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Quasi-Experimental
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/13
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.13
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011): Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
2001-015X
2001-0168
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/13/pdf
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.13.g5
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/14
2014-06-26T17:01:29Z
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Knowledge and social networks: New dimensions of economic interaction between firms
Steiner, Michael
Ploder, Michael
Agglomeration
Knowledge Transfer
Social Networks
co-evolutionary development
The paper explores the form and content of economic interaction of firms based on various concepts of agglomeration and social networks. It uses a case study of the machinery sector in the region of Styria as empirical background. Starting with types of clustering – the model of pure agglomeration, the industrial-complex model and the social-network model - the paper argues that certain geographical agglomerations allow different types of networks and different patterns of behaviour. Thus different forms of learning, knowledge sharing and knowledge creation. Some “stylized facts” in support of this perspective are derived from an analysis of a regional network. This network comprises individualistic open systems consisting of several areas which overlap. Physical linkages between these networks are weak, but intersections based on cooperative R&D and R&D infrastructure, qualification and informal exchanges are evident. From a regional perspective it can be seen to dominate. Despite evident sectoral concentrations direct links to the prevailing science base appear more significant as binding factors than long term supplier networks. These relationships are interpreted in terms of their need for proximity, their durability and above all their direction of knowledge dependency.
Adhou Communication AB
2011-12-01
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/14
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.14
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011): Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
2001-015X
2001-0168
10.37380/jisib.v1i1
eng
https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/14/pdf
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.14.g6
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/15
2014-06-26T17:01:29Z
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The Evolution of Competitive Intelligence in China
Xinzhou, Xie
Xuehui, Jin
Competitive Intelligence
China
Society of Competitive Intelligence in China
Following landmark events during different historic periods, this paper divides the evolution of competitive intelligence (CI) in China into three main stages: CI introduction, CI localization and CI self-conscious marketization. Studies of CI developments are made based on five main aspects of the overall CI industry in China, including their historical skeleton of development, achievements and problems identified. Finally a forecast for the future development of CI in China is presented.
Adhou Communication AB
2011-12-31
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/15
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.15
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011): Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
2001-015X
2001-0168
10.37380/jisib.v1i1
eng
https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/15/pdf
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.15.g14
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/16
2014-06-26T17:01:29Z
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A discourse analysis methodology based on semantic principles - an application to brands, journalists and consumers discourses
Grivel, Luc
Bousquet, Olivier
Discourse analysis
Brand management
Market research
This is a R&D Paper. It describes an analysis coming from a research project about opinion measurement and monitoring on the Internet. This research is realized within "Paragraphe" laboratory, in partnership with the market research institute Harris Interactive (CIFRE grant beginning July 2010). The purpose of the study was to define CRM possibilities. The targets of the study were self-employed workers and very small businesses. The discourses analysis is linked to a qualitative study. It turns around three types of discourses: brands, journalists and clients’ discourses. In the brand discourses analysis we benchmarked brand websites belonging to several businesses. In this first step, we tried to identify the most used words and promises by brands to the target we were studying. For that benchmark, we downloaded "Professionals" sections of the websites. Clients’ discourses analysis is based on opened answers coming from satisfaction questionnaires. The questions we are studying have been asked after a call to a hot line or after a technician intervention. Journalists’ discourses analysis is based on articles, published on information websites specialized in Harris Interactive's client sector. These websites were chosen because we considered them to be representative of information sources, which the target could consult.
Adhou Communication AB
2012-01-05
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/16
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.16
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011): Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
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2001-0168
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/16/pdf
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.16.g8
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/17
2014-06-26T17:01:29Z
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Establishment and application of Competitive Intelligence System in Mobile Devices
El haddadi, Anass
Dousset, Bernard
Berrada, Ilham
Competitive Intelligence
competitive intelligence systems
XPlor EveryWhere
Business Intelligence
continuous evolution
The strategy concept has changed dramatically: from a long range planning to strategic planning then to strategic responsiveness. This response implies moving from a concept of change to a concept of continuous evolution. In our context, the competitive intelligence system presented aims to improve decision‐making in all aspects of business life, particularly for offensive and innovative decisions. In the paper we present XPlor EveryWhere, our competitive intelligence system based on a multidimensional analysis model for mobile devices. The objective of this system is to capture the information environment in all dimensions of a decision problem, with the exploitation of information by analyzing the evolution of their interactions.
Adhou Communication AB
2012-01-05
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Experimental
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/17
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.17
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011): Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/17/pdf
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.17.g9
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/18
2014-06-26T17:01:29Z
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Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Creation - Outward insights from an empirical survey
Oubrich, Mourad
Competitive Intelligence
Knowledge creation
Knowledge management
The 21st century is characterized by many transformations which have had an impact on the growth of companies, such as aggressive competition, layoff plans, terrorist attacks and rising oil prices. It is of importance for a company to develop a protection against future impediments. This can be done by creating knowledge through a competitive intelligence process, which is the main focus of this article. With different theories about knowledge creation and competitive intelligence at hand, a qualitative empirical study was developed. The article presents how a company’s strategic intent, mission and strategic objectives can act as a guide for the competitive intelligence process, in order to gain the information necessary to find opportunities and eliminate threats.
Adhou Communication AB
2011-12-31
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/18
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.18
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011): Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
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2001-0168
10.37380/jisib.v1i1
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/18/pdf_1
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.18.g50
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/19
2014-06-26T17:01:29Z
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Key Success Factors in Business Intelligence
Adamala, Szymon
Cidrin, Linus
Business Intelligence
Data Warehouse
Critical Success Factors
Enterprise Data Warehouse
Success Factors Framework
project risk management
Business Intelligence can bring critical capabilities to an organization, but the implementation of such capabilities is often plagued with problems. Why is it that certain projects fail, while others succeed? The aim of this article is to identify the factors that are present in successful Business Intelligence projects and to organize them into a framework of critical success factors. A survey was conducted during the spring of 2011 to collect primary data on Business Intelligence projects. Findings confirm that Business Intelligence projects are wrestling with both technological and non-technological problems, but the non-technological problems are found to be harder to solve as well as more time consuming than their counterparts. The study also shows that critical success factors for Business Intelligence projects are different from success factors for Information Systems projects in general. Business Intelligences projects have critical success factors that are unique to the subject matter. Major differences can be found primarily among non-technological factors, such as the presence of a specific business need and a clear vision to guide the project. Success depends on types of project funding, the business value provided by each iteration in the project and the alignment of the project to a strategic vision for Business Intelligence at large. Furthermore, the study provides a framework for critical success factors that, explains sixty-one percent of variability of success for projects. Areas which should be given special attention include making sure that the Business Intelligence solution is built with the end users in mind, that the Business Intelligence solution is closely tied to the company’s strategic vision and that the project is properly scoped and prioritized to concentrate on the best opportunities first.
Adhou Communication AB
2011-12-31
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/19
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.19
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2011): Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/19/pdf
10.37380/jisib.v1i1.19.g11
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/27
2015-06-06T09:31:15Z
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Customers’ Expectations and Needs in the Business Intelligence Software Market
Sabanovic, Adis
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
Business Intelligence
Software
PET-model
customers’ expectations
This paper aims to find out what companies desire when choosing a Business Intelligence (BI) system. We look at what their needs are and what they expect and understand from this software system, which can make them work more efficient and gain better knowledge about the business they are in. A web questionnaire was used for 67 Swedish companies from various industries. The results are summarized and analyzed in cross tables for comparison. A model called The PET-model of BI implementation was created as a result of the theoretical findings. The model is used to finalize the results and the conclusions of the paper. The paper provides an argument for and an analysis of what is expected from a valuable BI Software Solution. It provides relevant facts about companies’ BI usage habits, which again is a guideline for BI software product development.
Adhou Communication AB
2012-05-04
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/27
10.37380/jisib.v2i1.27
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2012): JISIB
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/27/pdf_2
10.37380/jisib.v2i1.27.g35
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/28
2015-06-06T09:31:15Z
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Interactive methods for graph exploration
Loubier, Eloise
Grap exploration
strategic watch
visualization
business intelligence
In a strategic watch context, visualization of relational data allows transformation, coding and visualization of great data quantities. Access to interactive, adjustable functionalities by the user would facilitate the domination and the precision of the analysis. From this point of view, the VisuGraph tool allows visualization and exploration of relational data, by the way of applicable and controllable methods of analysis. The main interactive VisuGraph functionalities are presented and illustrated, revealing their importance in graph exploration. The user is the heart of the tool; he or she fully controls the representation and directs the analysis according to own needs.
Adhou Communication AB
2012-05-04
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10.37380/jisib.v2i1.28
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/28/27
10.37380/jisib.v2i1.28.g27
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/29
2015-06-06T09:31:15Z
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Multiversion Document Warehouse: An Approach to Multidimensional Analysis
Khrouf, Kaïs
Feki, Jamel
Soulé-Dupuy, Chantal
Multidimensional analysis of information
Heterogeneous documents
business intelligence
Document warehouses allow the storage of selected and filtered heterogeneous documents, as well as their exploitation through multidimensional analyses techniques. However, the content of documents is dynamic and changes over time. In practice, decisional analysts may be interested in various versions of documents. The document warehouse should store and manage these versions. This paper presents an extended generic model for document warehouses allowing the management of multiversion documents. In addition, it proposes a multidimensional analysis of the document versions.
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2012-05-04
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/29
10.37380/jisib.v2i1.29
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2012): JISIB
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2001-0168
10.37380/jisib.v2i1
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/29/pdf
10.37380/jisib.v2i1.29.g41
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/30
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Analysis of Competition in Chinese Automobile Industry based on an Opinion and Sentiment Mining System
Xie, Xinzhou
Wang, Qiang
Chen, Anqi
Competitive Intelligence
Opinion Mining
Chinese Automobile Industry
In this paper a methodology for a mining system is introduced. The architecture of the system is based upon what is called opinion and sentiment mining. The mining system is used to analyze competition in the auto industry. The results show the advantages with each of the two cars used for this study. Instead of offering theory this is a hands-on approach to help solve specific problems by describing a complex process.
Adhou Communication AB
2012-05-04
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/30
10.37380/jisib.v2i1.30
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2012): JISIB
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/30/29
10.37380/jisib.v2i1.30.g29
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/31
2015-06-06T09:31:15Z
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Applying patent analysis with Competitive technical intelligence: the case of Plastics
Salvador, Marisela Rodríguez
Bañuelos, Mario Alberto Tello
Competitive technical intelligence
innovations
patent analysis
plastics
thermoplastic elastomers
This article presents a methodology that integrates patent analysis in a study of Competitive Technical Intelligence. Our approach was applied in the area of plastics. We identified areas of research, leading companies and technology trends.
Adhou Communication AB
2012-05-04
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10.37380/jisib.v2i1.31
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2012): JISIB
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/31/30
10.37380/jisib.v2i1.31.g30
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/32
2015-06-06T09:31:15Z
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Standards, Evaluation, Certification and implications for the study of Competitive Intelligence
Bourret, Christian
Standards
evaluation
certification
competitive intelligence
The rise of standards, evaluations and certifications are expressions of what may be called the cult of performance and efficiency. Standards and assessment are frequently presented as inevitably, improving quality through a project approach. As such they reflect a strong focus on efficiency in a world dominated by the quantitative approach. These standards and evaluations may hinder Competitive Intelligence goals. Building on the interdisciplinarity of Information and Communication Sciences (ICS), we propose another qualitative approach to standards and assessment. Finally, we considers the challenges represented by standards in the context of globalization of the economy and of trade.
Adhou Communication AB
2012-05-04
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/32
10.37380/jisib.v2i1.32
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/32/31
10.37380/jisib.v2i1.32.g31
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/37
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Balancing Knowledge Management and Competitive Intelligence, Initial Insights
Erickson, Scott
Rothberg, Helen
This paper reports on a large-scale study of how industries balance knowledge development with knowledge protection. In particular, we look at specific industries and the competitive imperatives to increase knowledge assets (or not) and to conduct competitive intelligence activities (or not). This analysis is based on our previously established SPF framework, though we have developed new measures and a new database that more reliably establish industry conditions. The paper explains the different results seen in different industries by examining four markedly different SPF environments. Based on these different environments, we can begin to explore some of the possible explanations for the differences (characteristics of relevant knowledge, Value Chain insights, life cycle stage, etc.).
Adhou Communication AB
2012-09-30
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/37
10.37380/jisib.v2i2.37
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2012): JISIB
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/37/44
10.37380/jisib.v2i2.37.g44
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/38
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Synergy Between Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management - a key for Competitive Advantage
Ghannay, Jihene Chebbi
Mamlouk, Zeineb Ben Ammar
The market orientation perspective states that organizations have no option but to look beyond internal business activities and to integrate events from the external environment. These are complex, turbulent and rapidly changing. Firms today are led to utilize information and the knowledge of companies because to succeed in the information economy comes from harnessing these resources. Knowledge and information become strategic, paramount and must therefore be managed. Integrating knowledge management (KM) and competitive intelligence encourage the use of these resources, improve their quality and allow an enterprise to respond more rapidly to changing business conditions. The aim of this article, is to present similarities, differences, benefits of KM and CI for the organization through the study of current literature. Besides, we present critical success factors needed to achieve a successful implementation of these two processes, and further, highlight the importance of KM and CI integration for the organization to compete in the knowledge economy.
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2012-09-30
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/38
10.37380/jisib.v2i2.38
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2012): JISIB
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/38/pdf
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oai:ojs.hh.se:article/39
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Foundations of Competitive Intelligence System to form Business Coalitions
Mamawi, Olivier
This study shows how a business can identify the networks allowing to form coalitions to obtain French procurement contracts. To this end, we have represented, by a graph, the 2008 co-branding system. We have detected, in this graph, 1360 strategic networks of which the organization reveals, on the one hand, identical characteristics within business networks, and on the other hand, the role of the dominant parties as to access to industrial labor. From these results, we propose a network cartography allowing us to consider new applications for competitive intelligence.
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2012-09-30
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/39
10.37380/jisib.v2i2.39
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10.37380/jisib.v2i2
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/39/46
10.37380/jisib.v2i2.39.g46
oai:ojs.hh.se:article/40
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Competiveness from Contextualisation of Supply Chain Knowledge
López, Gabriela
Eldridge, Steve
Silva, Patricia
This paper provides a discussion about the need of a continuous contextualisation of knowledge practices in organisations. Also, a proposal of a knowledge representation to contextualize and diagnose supply chain knowledge is presented. The proposed knowledge representation is a codification to incorporate context in a way that some form of diagnosis of supply chain practices can be carried out, which could reveal possible favourable and unfavourable effects of practices in a supply chain. In addition, this paper has been constructed in Excel® as a prototype, with the aim of being used in workplaces to support decisions making in SMEs supply chains. For this investigation, a number of best practices have been analysed. Also, focus groups and individual interviews to operations managers, from global, small and medium enterprises, have been carried out. Subsequently, it has been possible to integrate the proposed coding representation to enable a contextualisation and diagnosis of supply chain knowledge.
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An evaluation of Business Intelligence Software systems in SMEs – a case study
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
This article proposes a simple model for evaluating the performance of Business Intelligence software systems based on what companies themselves find to be most important; efficiency, user friendliness, overall satisfaction, price and adaptability. Companies want to know the different systems used, why they are used and how effective they are for different tasks. They are also concerned about the systems’ compatibilities. The study builds on a deep interview with eight Swedish SMEs. The results show what terms are used by users, how they have solved their information needs and what problems arise in each company. It also shows that the decisions about what system to use are related to the experience specific individuals have had in other companies.
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/41/48
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Competitive Intelligence and Complex Systems
Gay, Brigitte
The economy reflects a dynamic interaction of a large number of different organizations and agents. A major challenge is to understand how these complex systems of interacting organizations form and evolve. The systemic perspective presented here confers an understanding of global effects as coming from these ever changing complex network interactions. Another main endeavor is to capture the interplay between individual firms’ alliance strategies and the dynamic interactions between all firms. In this paper, we advocate the use in competitive intelligence of a complex systems approach originating in statistical physics to understand the intricate meshes of interfirm interactions that characterize industries today, their dynamics, and the role major organizations play in these industries.
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Benchmarking Competitive Intelligence Activity
Rothberg, Helen N.
Erickson, G. Scott
Competitive Intelligence
Knowledge Management
Competitive Capital
This paper reports on results drawn from a comprehensive database formed from public financial reports and a proprietary benchmarking survey conducted by a major competitive intelligence consulting firm. Our overall aim is to identify different circumstances in which knowledge development and knowledge protection have greater or lesser importance. Very little work has been done on a industry-wide (or wider) basis concerning intellectual capital and/or competitive intelligence activities in firms and how that may vary according to circumstances. The wider study and database are designed to better address such questions. In this study, we look at one piece of this overall research program, specifically how competitive intelligence activity varies in distinctive environments. Based on these results, as practitioners better understand their environments, they can make better decisions on the level and aggressiveness of their own CI operations as well as on protection and counterintelligence efforts. The results will also begin to move scholarly work in the field into these new areas of macro studies and strategic choices.
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2012-12-27
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/44/pdf
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How to adapt a tactical board wargame for marketing strategy identification
Goria, Stéphan
War-games
marketing warfare
board war-games
Competitive Intelligence
game consoles
This research paper investigates some fundamental principles of marketing warfare to see specifically what kinds of maneuvers can be used to defend or take control of a certain market. We present military war-games and its history to ease the understanding of the fundamentals in this area of study. Since we did not find a visual business wargame solution for our problem in the literature, we decided to develop one, based on the French market of game consoles between Nintendo and Sony in the period between 1994 and 2010. Our experiment confirmed the value of war-gaming. It showed that a parallel could be made between tactical maneuvers on the map and the statistics of sales for this market during the time interval
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2012-12-27
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Using the SSAV model to evaluate Business Intelligence Software
Amara, Yasmina
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
Vriens, Dirk
Business Intelligence
Software evaluation
Competitive Intelligence
SSAV model
Choosing the right Business Intelligence (BI) software is critical to increasing productivity and effectiveness in organizations today. At the same time it is a very elaborating and complex process to choose the right software due to the fact that a large number of BI products exist on the market, which are quite different and updated frequently. The objective of this study is to develop and test a model for the evaluation of BI Software. The findings of the study revealed that it is difficult to declare what is the most competitive BI software as what is good for one user might not be good for another depending on their different business needs. Having said that the study initiated a new classification of BI Software vendors depending on the degree to which they comply with the functions in the Competitive Intelligence (CI) cycle. The software tested was divided into five categories: Fully complete, Complete, Semi Complete, Incomplete and Insubstantial. We conclude that the SSAV (Solberg Søilen, Amara, Vriens) Model Together with some proposed non technological variables and a classification developed can be used as a user's selection tool for deciding which BI Software to purchase.
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Applying Competitive Intelligence: The Case of Thermoplastics Elastomers
Rodriguez Salvador, Marisela
Salinas Casanova, Luis Francisco
Competitive Intelligence
Thermoplastics Elastomers
Styrenic Block Copolymers
Hydrogenated Styrenic Block Copolymers
The objective of this article is to investigate and identify drivers to compete in the industry of plastics through the application of the methodology of Competitive Intelligence. Practical implications: This article provides a practical case of the Competitive Intelligence Methodology applied to the Thermoplastics Elastomers Industry, specifically within the Styrenic Block Copolymers category. The output of this research helped support a Mexican Company in their decision-making process.
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Factors shaping vendor differentiation in the Business Intelligence software industry
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
Hasslinger, Anders
Business Intelligence
Software production
Application Integration
Pricing Strategies
Security Issues
Definitions
This paper is investigating, through a mixed-method research combining interviews and an online survey, how BI vendors differentiate themselves when it comes to application integration, security issues and pricing strategies. The conclusion is that BI vendors differentiated themselves mainly by having individual definitions of what BI is. Buyers are therefore advised to compare vendors through the vendor’s definition of Business Intelligence. Security issues were mainly user centric and pricing strategies implied that vendors approach buyers in a similar way where they offered standardized software bundles that would require some degree of customization in order for the buyer to derive the maximum benefit from the applications. It can be deduced from the obtained results that most competitive BI vendors are acting more homogenous towards buyers when they offer their products and handle customers, compared to niche BI vendors.
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Competitive intelligence in the South African pharmaceutical industry
Fatti, A.
du Toit, A.S.A.
Competitive intelligence
pharmaceutical industry
South Africa
strategic decision-making
Currently the South African pharmaceutical industry is being affected by legislation, as the government is readjusting the whole healthcare system to make it cost-effective and equitable. The purpose of this article is to establish what the current situation is within the South African pharmaceutical’s industry’s competitive intelligence (CI) capacity. Questionnaires were administered electronically to senior managers in the pharmaceutical industry. The majority of the respondents were of the opinion that a culture of information sharing and an environment of collaboration on competitive issues exist in their companies. Respondents confirm that CI is used on a continuous basis in strategic decision-making and that company strategies are used to manage competitors. It is recommended that senior management of pharmaceutical companies capitalise and consolidate the CI function which is used on a continuous basis in strategic decision-making.
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The Relationship between Strategic Planning and Company Performance – A Chinese perspective
Jenster, Per
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
Strategic Planning
Company Performances
Competitive Intelligence
What is the relationship between Strategic Planning and Company Performances in Chinese companies? Is there a correlation between Company Performance and the Strategies adopted by these companies, using the Miles and Snow model for Aggressiveness Strategies? And is it possible to say something more about what kind of Strategic Planning gives better Company Performances? We wanted to separate here between the Planning which is related to what is called Competitive Intelligence and other activities related to Planning. The Idea was to be able to say something about the importance of Competitive Intelligence. We also wanted to use more extensive statistical analysis with more variables in light of the criticisms that has been raised about the methodology of previous studies. We found that better planning had a positive effect on a number of key business performance measures. We found that there was indeed a distinction between the different strategies selected and Company Performance. The strategy type named Reactors performed systematically less well than companies who choose one of the other strategies. Moreover we found that there were differences between different planning activities and Company Performance and that activities related to Competitive Intelligence were on the average more important for Company Performance than other Planning activities.
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Critical Factors of Competitive Intelligence in the Power Plant Industry: The Case Study of MAPNA Group
Momeni, Afrooz
Mehrafzoon, Mehdi
Competitive intelligence
Factor analysis
Strategic management
power plant industry
Iran
This paper aims to discuss the critical factors of competitive intelligence that influences the Iran’s power plant industry (MAPNA Group). Design/methodology/ approach: The paper has identified critical factors of competitive intelligence through Iran’s power plant industry based on a comprehensive review of recent literature. For this purpose, a questionnaire was designed, applied and analyzed by the use of statistical methods. The results discuss various perspectives from a competitive intelligence point of view, and provide critical factors and a regression model for showing essential issues on the subject. Findings: The statistical analysis determines seven factors as critical issues in this case study. These factors are “Proportion of company’s structure and goal”, “Company’s competitive conditions”, “International Policies about foreign trade”, and “Economics and Politics condition of country”. Research limitation/ implications: The extracted factors can act as a guideline to design a strategic plan. This helps to ensure that the essential issues are covered during design and implementation of the plan. For academics, it provides a common language to discuss the factors crucial for competitive intelligence in this industry. Originality/ Value: The paper may represent high value to researchers in the competitive intelligence and strategic management fields. This study further provides an integrated perspective of critical issues for competitive intelligence in the power plant industry. It gives valuable information and guidelines that can help leaders consider the important issues during strategic planning.
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https://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/55/61
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An overview of articles on Competitive Intelligence in JCIM and CIR
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management
Competitive Intelligence Review
historical method
review
This paper presents an overview of fifty-one articles from the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management (JCIM) posted on the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals´ webpage. It also looks at sixty-tree randomly selected articles out of about 250 from the Competitive Intelligence Review (CIR), published between 1996 and 2001. The first analysis is based on a comparison with eleven different variables that have been picked out from each of the articles. Findings: The most common country where the authors’ come from is the United States of America. Sixty-one of the eighty-three authors have a higher degree, first of all MBA and/or Ph.D. North American authors have a higher degree than authors from Europe. Authors from North America have contributed with fifty-seven percent of the proposals for further research of a total of twenty-one proposals. Fourteen articles have a professional author. The rest are academic contributions. The main topic in these articles is how to develop Competitive Intelligence (CI) but also how to define CI. The articles have different methodological approaches, qualitative and quantitative. Seventy tree percent have a qualitative approach and of those there are thirty-seven percent that also have a qualitative approach. For the second analysis dedicated to CIR one clear conclusion points to the large number of articles which resulted from the introduction of the Economic Espionage Act of 1997. Most contributions at CIR come from practitioners
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Competitive Intelligence and Information Technology Adoption of SMEs in Turkey: Diagnosing Current Performance and Identifying Barriers
Wright, Sheila
Bisson, Christophe
Duffy, Alistair
The need for SMEs to behave in a more concise and coherent competitive fashion is well recognised. This study reports on an empirical study of SMEs in Turkey. Their responses were applied to a behavioural and information technology adoption framework which enabled the identification of areas where changes would be required for these firms to begin operating at a higher level of competence. The findings revealed significant scope for improvements on all strands of the diagnostic framework: attitude, gathering, location, technology support, IT systems support and finally, use of intelligence-based output by decision-makers. Through free form responses, it was also possible to identify barrier to higher level adoption and performance inhibiters, which were subsequently, categorised and assessed for significance.
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Comparative Study of Competitive Intelligence Practices between Two Retail Banks in Brazil and South Africa
du Toit, A. S. A.
Using competitive intelligence (CI) can help developing countries to increase their competitiveness. This paper compares the CI activities between two retail banks in Brazil and South Africa. An e-mail survey in a sample of 2550 employees in a retail bank in Brazil and 847 employees in a retail bank in South Africa was carried out in which CI practices were measured. Respondents in both countries were not very effective to conduct effective CI analysis. Respondents from Brazil consider information on operational risks as the most important while for South African respondents the most important information was on changing regulatory requirements. Although there is a culture of competitiveness in both organizations, it is recommended that if they want to compete effectively in the global economy, they should create CI awareness by organizing CI training sessions for employees.
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DEVELOPMENTS IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE
Abzaltynova, Zhanna
Williams, Janice
In today’s economy the requirements in Business Intelligence environments are changing dramatically. This research paper tested underlying constructs. Hypothesis one sought to test if vendors seek to provide complete BI solutions following all four stages of the CI cycle. The evaluation of BI vendors indicates that all vendors examined do not support planning & directing phase, except for Astragy that gives users consultations to plan and arrange their CI, its absence did not influence the overall performance score. The second hypothesis sought to test if BI vendors fail to provide good enough solutions for the analysis part of the intelligence cycle. The research findings indicate that only two BI vendors, SAS and QlikView, delivering the analysis phase of the intelligence cycle in a proper way. The third hypothetical construct concerns BI vendors’ attempts at making considerable changes in software each year, with each new upgrade. By tracing and comparing the developments of the vendors selected it has been concluded that all BI vendors, irrespective of whether it is a leading traditional vendor or small innovative BI, follow the same tendency in introducing BI enhancements by striving to make its software cost-effective, simpler, faster and flexible for use, scalable to manage increasing amounts of data in businesses, accessible to employees at all levels of organization. Hypothesis four sought to find out if the BI vendors’ software tested can be divided into a number of meaningful subgroups. With reference to evaluation and analysis and empirical findings, it has been concluded that the BI vendors can be divided into sub groups and hence has been classified based on their support of the phases of the intelligence cycle, their developments and market information. The subgroups range from advanced, competent, partially competent, and inadequate to absolutely inadequate. Among the BI vendors assessed, none satisfied the criteria in the advanced category. Hypothesis five aspired to determine if the BI software evaluated should fall under a different term as some of them do not follow the entire BI cycle. The analysis of empirical findings identified that QlikView and TIBCO Spotfire deliver the so-called next generation in-memory analytics, which is faster, much simpler, more flexible and scalable and meet the present-day business needs to a far greater extent if compared to traditional BI.
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Brazil - Evolutions in CI and some aspects of a current scenario
Paletta, Francisco Carlos
Ten years have gone since Competitive Intelligence was regarded as being in its initial phase in Brazil, according to the statistics from the application of the internationally accepted program for the sector. This article talks about the evolution of the Brazilian scenario in this field of activity and about aspects of the current reality which entitles us to outline the evolution of the practice of intelligence, as well as what is thought to be its application and results. The work focused mainly on three aspects: The evolution of the concept of Competitive/Economic Intelligence in the Southeast region of Brazil; the biggest recurring deficiencies in CI projects and obstacles to their execution; and the major recurring skills highlighted in the projects. The article shows culture as an influence that favors the aspects that affect the desires and decisions of companies located in Brazil. Conclusions point to an evolutionary scenario regarding the volume of project results in big companies and the presence of fragmented discourses in a market eager for a bigger volume of closed deals, less worried about delivery depth and quality.
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ICT Lifecycle and its major Role in the Development of Strategic Intelligence
Paletta, Francisco Carlos
Dias Vieira Junior, Nilson
In this article, we focus on the role of Information and Communication Technologies - ICT - to create additional sources of competitive advantage that can help companies to prepare themselves for sustainable growth. First, we discuss the dynamics of ICTs and the ability to generate innovations with a direct impact on business. Then we present the need for greater balance between goals of short and long term on IT projects. In the third part, we discuss how these new technologies have helped to increase the productivity of information professionals as well as to enhance the decision-making process and the satisfaction of the end customer. To conclude, the main challenges that the technology-based companies will have to face in relation to the management of the lifecycle of their technology, is consolidation and simplification of their processes within their computing environments, aiming to increase productivity and develop agile environments that allow the organizations to meet the demands of managing digital information.
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Cloud solution in Business Intelligence for SMEs –vendor and customer perspectives
Agostino, Alessandro
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
Gerritsen, Bart
The aim of this study was to identify key success factor for SME customers of cloud based Business Intelligence products. A deep interview was made with four producers and a questionnaire was carried out among 36 SMEs. The findings suggest that the most important CSFs were the level of software functionalities, the ubiquitous access to data, responsive answers to customer support requests, handling large amounts of data and implementation cost. Each of these factors addresses a specific area that customers pay close attention to during the adoption process of a cloud BI solution. Offering ubiquitous access to date and respsonsive answers to customer requests are particularly emphasized for SMEs. We also found that industry tailored software is preferred, monthly or quarterly billings, and contact by email or phone for service. The paper shows recommendations, implications of research and suggests further research on the topic.
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Intelligence in the Oil Patch: Knowledge Management and Competitive Intelligence Insights
N. Rothberg, Helen
Erickson, G. Scott
The fields of knowledge management and competitive intelligence have been joined in the literature for over a decade, as scholars recognized the emphasis in each field on developing knowledge, albeit of different types. While knowledge management is often limited to the human, structural, and relational capital of the firm, competitive intelligence is more outward looking, building a broadly sourced knowledge base concerning competitors. In fact, practitioners are one step ahead of academia in this application as many organizations have a connection between their knowledge management and competitive intelligence functions. In extensive depth interviews to ascertain the state of intelligence work of all types in contemporary industry, we found such an inclination to be prominent in a number of specific industries. One of these was oil and gas. While exploration, recovery, refining, transportation, and retail are all separate aspects of this broad field, it is collectively of interest, in large part because of this extensive scope. In this paper, we compare and contrast knowledge management and competitive intelligence practice in oil-based industries. In doing so, we draw upon an extensive database including financial returns of thousands of companies in a broad range of industries over a five-year period. Looking specifically at industries related to oil and gas, we review data concerning the level and importance of knowledge assets in each industry. Included in the database is additional information on competitive intelligence activity in each industry. We add these figures to the analysis, allowing us to assess the relative competitive intelligence threat levels. Finally, we discuss the results from the depth interviews we conducted with practitioners in these industries, sharing their perspective on the nature of knowledge management, competitive intelligence, and the interplay between them in this complex industry.
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A Risk and Benefits Behavioral Model to Assess Intentions to Adopt Big Data
Esteves, José
Curto, José
Everyday a constant stream of data is generated as a result of social interactions, Internet of things, e‐commerce and other business processes. This vast amount of data should be collected, stored, transformed, monitored and analyzed in a relatively brief period of time. Reason behind is data may contain the answer to business insights and new ideas fostering competitiveness and innovation. Big Data technologies/methodologies have emerged as the solution to this need. However, being a relatively new trend there is still much that remains unknown. This study, based on a risk and benefits perspective, uses the theory of planned behavior to develop a model that predicts the intention to adopt Big Data technologies.
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2014-06-26T17:36:21Z
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Technical Intelligence Approach: Determining Patent Trends in Open Die Forging
Rodriguez, Marisela
Palacios, Alejandro
Cortez, Dante
Competitive Intelligence
Open die forging is an important process for alloys and steels present in a variety of industries, such as in the aerospace industry, construction, mining and general machinery. During the forging process several wear mechanisms occur: thermal fatigue, plastic deformation, mechanical fatigue, etc. causing quality damage and economic losses. Academy and industry are devoting significant efforts to confront this situation where research acquires a key role. Under this context the objective of our research is to apply patent analyses as part of a Competitive Technical Intelligence methodology on open die forging. In particular, a keyword-based patent analysis and a patent citation analysis were develop
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Exploring Competitive Intelligence Practices of French Local Public Agricultural Organisations
Bisson, Christophe
Modern agriculture has increased the need for information when making strategic decisions for farmers since they must be more entrepreneurial to survive. This paper investigates the levels of Competitive Intelligence practices in a French Regional Chamber of Agriculture and its four Departmental Chambers of Agriculture to examine the ability of these public organisations to keep fulfilling one of their missions which is to provide the necessary information and knowledge to farmers. Thus, this study proposes a behavioural and operational typology of Competitive Intelligence practice. Both types of organisations demonstrate that they are not well adapted to support the entrepreneurial farmers on this issue. The findings of this study and the diagnosis of the Competitive Intelligence practices applied to the typology could be of help to increase their and other public agricultural structures performance levels. Furthermore, the platform has the potential to inspire the public sector through subsequent adaptations.
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Strategic Foresight: Determining Patent Trends in Additive Manufacturing
Rodríguez Salvador, Marisela
Cruz Zamudio, Paola
Santiago Avila Carrasco, Andrés
Olivares Benítez, Elías
Arellano Bautista, Beatriz
Strategic foresight
foresight
patent analysis
additive manufacturing
Additive manufacturing is an emerging technology that brings several opportunities to the manufacturing industry. Therefore, research in this arena on current and future developments is required to make strategic decisions. Under this context, the goal of this research is to develop a patent analysis on additive manufacturing. Keyword-patent analysis is performed to identify the most important organizations, countries, inventors, and technology areas through International Patent Classifications (IPCs) of the additive manufacturing industry. Results show that there is an increase on additive manufacturing research, particularly in 2013 and 2014. The main areas of research are focused on shaping of plastics and after-treatment of shaped products and working metallic powder and manufacture articles from this material. Moreover, the analysis indicates that leading countries on additive manufacturing research are United States, Great Britain and Switzerland. Additionally, top three companies on this area are: Stratasys Inc. (USA), United Technologies Corp. (USA) and Alstom Technology LTD (Switzerland). Its recent research inventions were identified in this study. The main contribution of this research is to offer a template for analysis in other industries, but it also brings valuable insights to decision makers interested in recent patent efforts developed for the advancement of additive manufacturing.
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Disruptive Intelligence - How to gather Information to deal with disruptive innovations
Vriens, Dirk
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
Disruptive intelligence
disruptive innovation
business models
disruptive blindness
Disruptive innovations are innovations that have the capacity to transform a whole business into one with products that are more accessible and affordable (cf. Christensen et al. 2009). As Christensen et al. argue no business is immune to such disruptive innovations. If these authors are right, it might be relevant to be able to recognize these innovations before they disrupt a business. Incumbents may use this information to protect their business and others may use it to participate in the disruption. Either way, gathering information about potential disruptive innovations is a relevant activity. The production of this information (we call this information “disruptive Intelligence”) is the topic of this paper. In particular, we analyze disruptive innovation theory and formulate several intelligence topics which may help in predicting disruptive innovations. In addition, we formulate several ‘biases’ which may impair the production of ‘disruptive intelligence’.
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Toward a better understanding of SMB CEOs' Information Security Behavior: Insights from Threat or Coping appraisal
Barlette, Yves
Gundolf, Katherine
Jaouen, Annabelle
This study presents an empirical investigation of factors affecting SMB CEOs decision to improve or not their company's information security (ISS). We developed a research model by adopting the protection motivation theory (PMT) to investigate the effect of threat and coping appraisal on protective actions. We conducted a questionnaire-based survey with SMB CEOs. Prior studies using PMT have never been focused on SMB CEOs behavior, and we postulate that in SMBs where there is no CIO or even IT people, CEO’s actions are of utmost importance for achieving a satisfying ISS.
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A new evaluation model of ERP system success
Zouine, Abdesamad
Fenies, Pierre
This article presents a literature review about the success evaluation in the information system, and proposes a new evaluation success model suited to the ERP software. In the first part we present approaches, frameworks and models of the evaluation success previously used and empirically validated by researchers in the IS field. Then, we present our Evaluation Success Model, highlighting its three main theoretical foundations: Mathematical theory of communication, diffusion of innovation theory and adaptive structuration theory in the one hand, and we expose the main construct of this model named the ESF (Evaluation Success Factors) on the other hand. These factors are classified in three categories: technological, environmental and organizational evaluation factors. This work analyses articles published in the last decade about the success evaluation and delineates ten ESF’s widely used to evaluate the success of the ERP system project.
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The Definition of Competitive Intelligence Needs through a Synthesis Model
Grèzes, Vincent
Based on an exhaustive literature review, this paper presents an overview of the evolution of different methods useful for defining competitive intelligence needs, where the information helps the firm to justify its strategic decisions, the analysis of the early warning topics and the elements of the competitors' environment and the actors influencing the organization or its value system, and their categorization. These findings are part of a doctoral study aiming at identifying the usefulness of data coming from open intelligence. The researcher presents, on one hand, a categorization of competitive intelligence needs, and on the other hand, a synthesis model that assists managers in defining competitive intelligence needs. It also aims to show how to foster innovation.
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Towards an environmental awareness model integrating formal and informal mechanisms – Lessons learned from the Demise of Nortel
Calof, Jonathan
Mirabeau, Laurent
Richards, Greg
This case study uses multiple lines of enquiry to better understand how Nortel went from being a ‘global powerhouse’ at the turn of the century to filing for bankruptcy just nine years later. It tracks competitive intelligence as well as other environmental awareness capabilities of the company and theorizes on how they have contributed to its rise and fall. The findings suggest that Nortel was a company with significant environmental awareness capability in the early 90’s that had all but lost this competency by the year 2000, which impacted their ability to make decisions consistent with a changing environment. Through interviews with 48% of all Nortel officers that were there during the period of interest as well as other stakeholders, the researchers identify a two-layer typology that includes a set of cognitive factors as well as three broad categories of monitoring practices that can help companies better understand their environment: 1) formal external monitoring practices, such as competitive intelligence units; 2) informal external monitoring practices such as board meetings with members with industry connections and knowledge, and 3) internal monitoring practices with external insight capability, such as performance management reviews and accounting reports. Cognitive factors identified include decision maker orientation, as either technical or business, internal vs., internal focus, cognitive complexity and open mindedness.
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Competitive intelligence research: an investigation of trends in the literature
du Toit, A.S.A.
This article looked at competitive intelligence research reported from 1994 to 2014 in the ABI/Inform database to determine the development of competitive intelligence as subject field. This development can be attributed to several factors. Content analysis was used to establish research patterns and the author based the analysis on the extant literature and on the 338 articles that were gathered from the ABI/Inform database. Only peer-reviewed articles were analysed. The most popular term used in the literature is competitive intelligence, followed by business intelligence and marketing intelligence. The journals in which the articles appeared are scattered and few journals have published more than ten competitive intelligence articles. Few authors have published more than five articles.
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The impact of CRM on QoE : An exploratory study from mobile phone industry in Morocco
Aziza, Amine
Oubrich, Mourad
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
Today’s mobile phone sector is marked by intensified competition and strong market penetration. In this environment, the carriers offer their customers a wide variety of services that are quite similar from one operator to another. These customers are always searching for a quality of experience (QoE). On one hand, operators interact with their customers through CRM practices inspired by their marketing strategies and rolled out through their procedures and technological support. On the other hand, the customers expect an extremely high quality of service (QoS) and subjectively perceive the utility and usability (Qp) of these mobile services. This paradox led us to study the impact of CRM on the customer experience (QoE) in the mobile phone industry, in this study with data from Morocco. Empirical data confirms existing theory, CRM determinants for QoE include quality of service, quality of interaction with customer, claims management and customer knowledge. However, we also found that practitioners are aware that organizations should look beyond the relationship to manage the customer experience. To this end we developed a model based on the first four CRM determinants and the findings in this study.
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Evaluation of e-Word-of-Mouth through Business Intelligence processes in banking domain
Šperková, Lucie
Škola, Petr
Bruckner, Tomáš
Social networks and Internet discussions are valuable sources for a company’s marketing research and public relations management. The Internet is full of public communication in an unstructured form and reflects recent movements of contributors' perception of the company, brand, products, competitors or whole market. As one of the approaches to achieve a better view we propose to design metrics which should be followed in order to get valuable insight where the company stands in terms of its customers. This paper focuses on obtaining an e-Word-of-Mouth in the banking sector using publicly available data. The main goal is to design metrics and dashboards evaluating customers’ perception of a bank’s services based on the analysis of public Facebook sites and web discussions related to several banks in the Czech Republic. We studied several approaches to unstructured data analysis. Thus we present complementary findings in classification of the unstructured data analysis presentation as a set of summarised metadata, top peaks of primary qualitative data and results of automated semantic analysis of the unstructured data. Based on the result we discuss the possible value of an unstructured data analysis and related systems. We find out that the value could be in the identification of opportunities and threats in the market by unexpected movements in public opinion of the Internet crowd, which we suggest to explore in future research. The benefit of this report is to describe the processing of data that can be obtained with emphasis on their content, their further enrichment, and their users.
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Leveraging organizational knowledge vision through Strategic Intelligence profiling - the case of the Romanian software industry
Bleoju, Gianita
Capatina, Alexandru
CRM
QoE
QoS
Qp
Mobile services
Business Intelligence
ERP
This paper presents the empirical testing of a Strategic Intelligence profiling tool customized for software development companies that we have previously designed, through an abductive methodology. We conducted a quantitative survey to identify the associations between the strategic profiles embedded into the profiling tool (Intelligence Provider, Vigilant Learner, Opportunity Captor and Opportunity Defender) and four variables with high impact on organizational knowledge: strategic scope, organizational agility, organizational cultural change process and the approach of competitors. We found that the relevance of our Strategic Intelligence tool’s variables is a consistent base for testing the robustness of the model in software industry, in order to validate the profiling instrument. We consider that the originality of the Strategic Intelligence profiling tool, tailored to software industry requirements, resides mainly in the foresight capability of the firm, which is highly dependent on less acknowledgeable factors such as: anticipative versus non-anticipative signal processing; the profile specific equilibrium of recognitional versus analytical strategic decision and rising the actionability of tacit managerial knowledge through collective intelligence reliability.
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A Longitudinal Look at Strategy, Intellectual Capital and Profit Pools
Erickson, G. Scott
Rothberg, Helen N. N.
Explores the link between the disparate fields of knowledge management, intellectual capital, competitive intelligence, and strategy. Using an existing profit pool study of the digital economy, looks at the key industry sectors involved and their revenue levels and profit margins. These data include results from both 2002 and 2010. The profit pool observations are then compared with additional data on intangible assets (knowledge and related assets) and competitive intelligence activity in each sector. Explores but generally dismisses the idea that sector revenue and/or profitability might be linked to high levels of intangibles. Similarly, demonstrates that the link between sector revenue and/or profitability and competitive intelligence activity may be generally weak (though pronounced in some specific high-growth circumstances). Alternatively, does provide some guidance for more in-depth study, identifying the knowledge strategies necessary for success across sectors as well as what competitive intelligence attitude may be needed to move from one sector into another.
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Social Competitive Intelligence - socio-technical themes and values for the networking organization
Degerstedt, Lars
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 together in SCIF. The framework is founded on theory related to enterprise 2.0 and wikinomics, and is intended to be used to study social CI using principles such as openness, participation, sharing and co-creation. The presented results are based on a literature review and an exploratory study with interviews of CI experts from Swedish organiza- tions. SCIF explicitly distinguishes between task-oriented models and collaboration models, and models of different socio-technical perspectives. Moreover, SCIF uses the mechanisms of socio-technical themes and a socio-technical value map that relate the theoretical and empirical characteristics with the SCIF modeling method.
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A place for intelligence studies as a scientific discipline
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
competitive intelligence
intelligence studies
science
Is the field of Competitive Intelligence (CI) or Intelligence Studies (IS) a proper scientific field of study? The empirical investigation found that academic and professional within CI and IS could not agree upon what dimensions, topics or content are handled by their own area of interest that is not covered by other areas of study. In fact, most topics listed as special for CI and IS are covered by other established scientific journals. Most topics are covered by other disciplines. The data also showed that the same group could not list any analysis that is not used by other areas of study. It shows that a majority of the analyses the respondents think are unique to their study come from the area of strategy and military intelligence. However, this does not mean that CI and IS does not have its own place or niche as a study and discipline. It is suggested here, but further investigation is encouraged, that CI and IS brings a number of unique dimension to the social sciences.
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Intelligence as a discipline, not just a practice
Hoppe, Magnus
competitive intelligence
ideal informative flow
ideal organizational thinking
intelligence academics
intelligence scholars
intelligence science
organized intelligence
This paper is a call for a new research agenda for the topic of intelligence studiesas a scientific discipline counterbalancing the present domination of research in the art ofintelligence or intelligence as a practice. I argue that there is a need to move away from a narrowperspective on practice to pursue a broader understanding of intelligence as an organizationaldiscipline with all of its complexities where the subject is seen as more critical and is allowed toreflect on itself as a topic. This path will help intelligence academics connect to theoreticaldevelopments gained elsewhere and move forward, towards establishing more of an intelligencescience. The article is critical of what the author sees as a constructionist line of thinking.Instead the author presents a theory of intelligence as learning how to “muddle through”influenced more by organizational theory. The author also argues for an independent scientificjournal in Intelligence.
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A reflection and integration of workforce conceptualisations and measurements for competitive advantage
Nienaber, Hester
Sewdass, Nisha
competitive advantage
organisational performance
predictive analytics
strategy
workforce
workforce analytics
workforce intelligence
workforce metrics
Workforce management is important in organisational performance. However,executives lament that their workforce management efforts remain ineffective. This comes asno surprise, as workforce measurement poses a challenge for several reasons: the many differentconceptualisations of the workforce, which developed in parallel, and flawed workforceanalytics, hence inadequate workforce intelligence, are among the most significant. To have theright people available requires timely and accurate information and intelligence to makeevidence-based decisions. In order to achieve this proper measurement is required, which formspart of the information system that ensures the availability of the right people, at the rightplace, at the right time. People measurement/metrics, is a neglected area of research, which isreceiving increased attention. Though little, if any, attention is devoted to the link betweenpeople as dimension of competitive advantage and metrics to ensure the availability of the rightpeople, at the right place at the right time. Our conceptual paper attends to this omission byreflecting on the different conceptualisations of ‘workforce’ by integrating the diverse andfragmented literature, which has not been done before, and linking it with workforcemeasurement. In so doing, we provide a more comprehensive understanding of ‘workforce’ andworkforce measurement, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy to secure acompetitive advantage and, thus, organisational performance. We also propose an integratedframework to measure and manage the workforce. It transpired that of the many tools available,predictive analytics emerged as the most effective means to measure and manage the workforcesuccessfully. Our paper benefits both academics and practitioners as theoretical ambiguitiesand tensions are clarified while ensuring the availability of the requisite workforce.
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A research agenda for intelligence studies in business
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
business intelligence
competitive intelligence
intelligence studies
market intelligence
research agenda
This research paper defines the scope for a research agenda for competitiveintelligence (CI), market intelligence (MI) and more generally for intelligence studies inbusiness. Respondents in the survey defined the scope to include analysis, traditionalphenomena or problems, new phenomena, trans- or cross disciplinary studies, methodologicalissue and industry specific studies. Respondents were also asked to come up with terms for agood definition of the study. We found that existing definitions of CI in use are overlapping withdefinitions of other more established fields of study, like decision sciences and marketingintelligence. Respondents agreed that it’s practical to define the study in terms of understandingthe external environment. In the discussion a parallel is made to the notion of surroundingworld analysis and Stevan Dedijer’s ideas about social intelligence. A broad discussion leads toa renewed interest for disciplines studied by the humanities as we show what has been lost inthe development of the social sciences. Implications are shown and future studies suggested.
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An evaluation of business intelligence tools: a cluster analysis of users’ perceptions
Fourati-Jamoussi, Fatma
Narcisse Niamba, Claude
business intelligence
cluster analysis
TAM model
TTF model
user perception
The purpose of this paper is to discuss and evaluate the use of businessintelligence (BI) tools by professionals and students to help designers of these tools get the mostefficiency out of a monitoring process. This paper explores the business and competitiveintelligence literature. BI is considered to be a new area in information systems, so literatureresearch was conducted in the area of management information systems (MIS) with twoevaluation models: task-technology fit and technology acceptance to evaluate BI tools. Aquestionnaire was sent to users of business intelligence tools addressed to French companies indifferent trades and engineering students and the most pertinent replies were examined. Theresponses were analyzed using the statistical software SPAD. Results showed a typology fromthe various profiles of users of this technology using the method of classification. We notedifferent perceptions between professional and student users (the clients). Although this studyremains focused on individual perspective, it requires more examination of the organizationalimpact of the use of BI tools. The identification of the different user profiles was done by usinga cluster analysis. For the designers of BI tools these results highlight the importance of userperception, suggesting designers take into account the perception of all user types. As thesetools develop, more and more companies will be looking for skills for monitoring andmanagement of strategic information.
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Government sponsored competitive intelligence for regional and sectoral economic development: Canadian experiences
Calof, Jonathan
competitive intelligence
economic development
economic intelligence
program impact
program review
Can competitive intelligence (CI) be used to assist in regional and sectoraleconomic development? This article looks at intelligence initiatives (largely around training)sponsored by various government departments and agencies in Canada and their link toregional and sectoral economic development. The article provides examples of the kind ofintelligence initiatives that have been used in Canada to support regional and sectoral(industrial) economic development. The article proposes a method for categorizing theseregional and sectoral intelligence programs and suggests methods for assessing the impact ofthese programs on regional and sectoral economic development. The Canadian programs aredivided into three broad categories 1) Government programs aimed at enhancing their ownability to develop competitive intelligence 2) Programs that are sponsored by the governmentfor industry and others to develop competitive intelligence and 3) Programs sponsored by thegovernment to help communities develop competitive intelligence for local economicdevelopment. Positive economic impacts were identified using program review documents,government officer reports and anecdotal evidence from program participant surveys. However,while the evidence does support positive impact a more comprehensive approach to evaluatingthese impacts should be considered in the future.
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Major advances in ophthalmology: emergence of bio-additive manufacturing
Rodríguez Salvador, Marisela
Hernández de Menéndez, Ana Marcela
3D bioprinting
3D printing
additive manufacturing
bio-additive manufacturing
biomedical devices
bioprinting
health
ophthalmic devices
ophthalmology
sientometrics
patent analysis
Important efforts to discover new ways to combat illnesses are being carried outworldwide. In this sense, bio-additive manufacturing is an innovative technology that willrevolutionize the health industry, as it provides the possibility to develop three-dimensional biodevices, such as body tissues and even organs. This research explores the most novel inventionsof bio-additive manufacturing in ophthalmology. The main aim is to support the decisionmaking of the research community and the organizations involved in this industry. The majoradvances, organizations, research focuses and main countries involved in the ophthalmologyfield were identified. To accomplish this, a scientometric patent analysis was carried out usingadvanced data mining software and consultations with experts. Insights show a global researchtrend toward the development of lenses, followed by prosthesis and implants. Bio-additivemanufacturing is now in a nascent S-curve phase; however, important advances are beingcarried out.
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Study on competitive intelligence in Israel: 2016 update
Barnea, Avner
business strategy
CI in Israel
competitive intelligence
Israeli firms
This paper investigates the state of competitive intelligence among Israeli firmsin 2014. The methodology used was self completion questionnaires, which were responded to in May and June of 2016. A response rate of 26% was achieved with 39 questionnaires returned of the 69 questionnaires that were sent out to 65 local firms, most of them with an annual turnover of greater than 100 million USD. The results indicated that there were insignificant changes in the use of competitive intelligence in Israel in the last 10 years, since a survey conducted in 2006. Initially it looked as if the use of competitive intelligence was expanding, but the actual findings shows that the contribution of competitive intelligence to the decision making process was not progressing as it was expected to and there were difficulties in making competitiveintelligence an integral part of the decision-making process and having it reach an influential position. The results indicated that the recent global downturn evidently had only a minimal effect on the competitive intelligence scheme and in 75% of the firms there were actually almost no changes in the competitive intelligence programs. Clearly, competitive intelligence was primarily a tool used by the larger organizations and most of the firms that responded (60%),were among those who competed in the global markets. I have also attempted to look into the quality attributes of competitive intelligence performance, and it seemed that the low use of analytical tools was an indicator that we cannot ignore. Only 33% of the competitive intelligence professionals were using these tools regularly as part of their analysis work and in presentingtheir findings.
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Identification and classification of organizational level competencies for BI success
Salmasi, Maryam Khalilzadeh
Talebpour, Alireza
Homayounvala, Elaheh
BI success
business intelligence
exploratory factor analysis
organizational level competencies
Business intelligence is a technology-oriented solution that businesses need tosurvive in today’s competitive and constantly changing market. To gain the benefits of BI systems, it is important to evaluate, assess, and improve factors that have an influence on BI success. Organizational competencies can provide answers to the question of how companies could gain more benefits from BI systems. While investment in BI systems is increasingly growing, measures to evaluate effective organizational competencies leading to BI success aregaining more importance. Therefore, this research identified a number of effective organizational competencies that contribute to BI success. Using the developed questionnaire for determining the effect of organizational level success on BI success, the research data was gathered for the study. A chi-square test confirmed the effectiveness of all nineteen identifiedcompetencies. Then, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was carried out on the data in order to identify the underlying dimensions. In addition, competencies were grouped into six categories, namely data management, information system/information technology (IS/IT) development, financial resources, relationship management, IS strategy and human capital policies. As a result, these competencies can be used as a measure to evaluate an organization’sstatus in holding some of the effective factors for BI success.
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Early warning: the role of market on entrepreneurial alertness
Ghasemi, Bahare
Rowshan, Aligholi
counterfactual thinking
early warning
entrepreneurial alertness
framebreaking
market disequilibrium
sensitivity to profit potential
Given the growth and role of entrepreneurship today, it is becoming increasinglyimportant to understand how new entrepreneurial opportunities get developed. Discussions of the emergence of new entrepreneurial opportunities often include “eureka” moments, but our understanding of how new opportunities get brought forward is limited. We attribute the difference to a loosely defined quality that Kirzner called “entrepreneurial alertness”. Other market actors do not have the responsibility to create innovative market opportunities although they do have an obligation to consider such opportunities once they are available in the marketplace. Consequently, understanding the opportunity identification processrepresents one of the core intellectual questions for the domain of entrepreneurship. So the question of this paper is how are market environments represented and interpreted in the mind of the entrepreneur such that opportunity identification occurs? and what factors impress on it? To achieve this goal we distribute questionnaires between 115 M.A. students from Economics and Management college of University of Sistan & Baluchestan for the years2012 and 2013. Analysis was done by correlation test. Results showed that there is a significant relationship between market disequilibrium, accuracy vs. timeliness, schema complexity, counterfactual thinking, frame-breaking and sensitivity to profit potential and student’s entrepreneurial alertness; but the relationship between ignorance of new resource and excessive optimism or pessimism about resource and student’s entrepreneurial alertness was not significant.
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Users’ perceptions of Data as a Service (DaaS)
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
business intelligence as a service
DaaS
data governance
data steward
DBaaS
ethics
Intelligence as a Service (IaaS)
management of data
In this study, 190 market intelligence (MI), competitive intelligence (CI) andbusiness intelligence (BI) professionals and experts were asked about Data as a Service (DaaS). Findings show there were few limits or restrictions on what kind of data users could imagine buying or renting, if all types of data were available. Data that is more sensitive—personal data and private data—will be difficult to buy, users think. Company secrets and most data for business-to-business (B2B) industries is especially difficult to obtain. The major concerns forDaaS from a user perspective are confidentiality, quality, reliability, security and accessibility. Besides, it is often pointed out by users that when everyone has much of the same data competition will increase. Users want to see more on company metrics, less expensive, more secure and more flexible data solutions. The analysis reveals that the ethical dimension are a major concern as DaaS develops. An extensive discussion follows, which also addresses newpoints.
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Geospatial analysis of census data for targeting new businesses using geoeconomics
Sushant K., Singha
Analytics
ArcGIS
Asian
business
California
census
geospatial
restaurants
ZCTA
Geoeconomics plays a vital role in encouraging goods and services on newmarketplaces. Selecting a “sweet-spot” for new businesses is one of the biggest challenges fornew entrepreneurs, enterprises, and investors, especially in the restaurant industry. This paperaims to present a novel geospatial methodological approach for new businesses using censusdata to answer an important business question: Where I should start my new Asian cuisinerestaurant? State and zip code tabulation area (ZCTA) level data on race and income,downloaded from the US census website, were applied for the analysis. ArcGIS software wasused as a geospatial analytics tool for hotspot analysis and for producing maps. Based on thestate level standard deviation map, California was found to have the second-highest relativeAsian population as gauged by the standard deviation (Std. Dev.) from the mean (1.5-2.5 Std.Dev.), after Hawaii (>2.5 Std. Dev.), and followed by New Jersey, New York, Nevada, andWashington. The state of California was selected for further investigation. Seventeen of 58counties were found to be Asian community hotspots in California. A majority (48%, 854 of 1763)of the ZCTA were found to be Asian community hotspots in these zip codes in this state, andthis was statistically significant. Only 9% (163 of 1763) of the ZCTA were not statisticallysignificant Asian community hotspots, while 43% of the ZCTA were found to be statisticallysignificant coldspots of Asian communities in California. Among the 17 hotspot counties of Asiancommunities, 14 were also derived as hotspots of mean income. The road layer map revealedthat these ZCTAs are well connected to major roads in the state. New entrepreneurs,enterprises, and investors, those who are willing to open and or invest in new restaurants, butare not sure about the location, could target hotspot ZCTAs in these counties for Asian cuisine.Integrating ArcGIS with census data for producing maps of statistically significant potentialbusiness locations could be used as an important decision-making tool for opening newbusinesses.
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Business intelligence through patinformatics: A study of energy efficient data centres using patent data
Deshpande, Nishad
Ahmeda, Shabib
Khodea, Alok
Cooling
data centres
energy efficiency
green data centres
patents
patinformatics
The advent of cloud computing has nurtured an unprecedented growth of datacentres. With its growth, the main concern for service providers and data centre owners is toefficiently manage the energy of the data centres without compromising their computingcapabilities. This concern is genuine as data centres utilise 10-30 times more energy thanoffice spaces and also generate immense heat. As cooling accounts for half of the total powerconsumption in data centres, efficient cooling systems have become a vital need for datacentres. This has resulted in increased research and innovation in the field of efficient coolingof data centres, which in turn has led to growth in filing of patents in this domain. Patents aretechno-legal documents that contain different kinds of information that is accessible to all. Inthe present study, patents are used as source of information for competitive/businessintelligence to highlight the technological trends in the field of energy efficient cooling of datacentres. The study reveals that IBM, HP, Schneider and Hon Hai Industries are the majorplayers working in this technological area. Contrary to the notion that air conditioning wouldbe the most researched area for cooling data centres, the study reveals that there is alsointerest in the hardware of the servers and racks to produce less heat or to have built-incooling mechanisms. The main technologies for which patents are being filed includeventilation using gaseous coolant, technologies related to rack design as well as liquid cooling.Original equipment manufacturers and other vendors have increased filings, along with cloudservice providers. Most of these technologies originate from Asia-Pacific and this region is astrong market, following the USA.
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Cross-cultural strategic intelligence solutions for leveraging open innovation opportunities
Capatina, Alexandru
Bleoju, Gianita
Yamazakib, Kiyohiro amazakib
Nistor, Rozalia
Disruptive intelligence
japan
open innovation
romania
strategic intelligence
technology brokers
technology fountains
technology isolationists
technology sponges
Although the concept of open innovation has become widely discussed by scholarsand practitioners, few cross-cultural studies focus on the assessment of companies’ behaviourstowards “not invented here” and “not sold here” syndromes. The purpose of this paper is toinvestigate the profiles of Japanese and Romanian companies operating in two fields, IT andmanufacturing, from the open innovation perspective. The goal of this study is therefore toprovide comprehensive empirical evidence for the adoption of inbound and outbound openinnovation activities in the companies from these two target countries. Data from a sample ofJapanese companies and Romanian companies were used to test two hypotheses on openinnovation behaviour, in the context of a cross-cultural comparative approach. The results showthat technology isolationists are more frequently found among the Romanian companies(especially in the manufacturing field), than the Japanese companies, which can be explainedby the fact that Japanese firms are mainly based on leading innovative technologies, whileRomanian firms are early adopters of the advanced technologies, due to the economiccircumstances. Japanese companies included in the sample are defined as technology fountains,followed by technology brokers, proving their appetite for outbound open innovation. In thiscontext, strategic intelligence solutions, once performed in collaborative culture environments,will lead to the improvement of the partners’ managerial competences and will act as enablersfor competitive positioning, proving the added-value of the acquired know-how through openinnovation practices.
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Business intelligence evaluation model in enterprise systems using fuzzy PROMETHEE
Maadi, Mansoureh
Javidnia, Mohammad
Khatami, Malihe
Business intelligence
enterprise systems
Fuzzy PROMETHEE
fuzzy theory
PROMETHEE
In this paper, a new model to evaluate business intelligence (BI) for enterprisesystems is presented. Evaluation of BI before making decisions about buying and deploymentcan be an important decision support system for managers in organizations. In this paper, asimple and practical method is presented that evaluates BI for enterprise systems. In this way,after reviewing different papers in the literature, 34 criteria for BI specifications aredetermined, and then by applying fuzzy PROMETHEE, different enterprise systems areranked. To continue to assess the proposed model and as a case study, five enterprise systemswere selected and ranked using the proposed model. The advantages of PROMETHEE overother multi-criteria decision making methods and the use of fuzzy theory to deal withuncertainty in decision making is assessed and it is found that the proposed model can be auseful and applied method to help managers make decisions in organizations.
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Economic and industrial espionage at the start of the 21st century – Status quaestionis
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
Economic espionage
hacking
industrial espionage
literature review
signal intelligence
This article is a literature review where the aim is to define a status quaestionisfor the field of economic and industrial espionage. History shows how those who engage in theseactivities often are the scientifically and industrially weaker party, the party that is learning ortrying to catch up. On a global scale economic and industrial espionage can be seen as a form ofinvoluntarily sharing that has a series of positive results for economic development. On thescale of the individual businesses attacked, and for tax authorities in those countries, it is atroublesome phenomenon that must be regulated and punished. Governments must preparesociety for systematic and frequent cyberattacks. Private companies are wise to move to strictersecurity controls, which must include encryption. A number of specific research projects aresuggested throughout the article. In the literature we have identified the following agentmotives: the employee who needs money, has split loyalties, leaves angry, the occasional thieveand the professional spy.
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Why the social sciences should be based in evolutionary theory: the example of geoeconomics and intelligence studies
Söilen, Klaus Solberg
Evolutionary theory
Economics
Geoeconomics
Intelligence Studies
This article gathers arguments for why the social sciences should be based inevolutionary theory by showing the shortcomings of the current paradigm based on the study of physics. Two examples are used, the study of intelligence studies and geoeconomics. After a presentation of the geoeconomics literature and an explanation of what the organic view of the social sciences is, we follow the study of economics as it developed after the Second World War to see where it went wrong and why.
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Proposal of an assessment scale in competitive intelligence applied to the tourism sector
Salguero, Gisela Casado
Resende Jr., Pedro Carlos
Fernández, Ignacio Aldeanueva
Competitive intelligence
tourism
Companies operate in uncertain environments, where decision-making is acomplex task. Thus, one of the key elements to take into account in the aforementioned decision-making is the environment in which the business operates. This is where competitive intelligence (CI) makes sense, understood as the process of establishing the environmental information needs, information acquisition and its analysis, transforming it into intelligence and putting it at the service of decision-makers in the company. This paper focuses on theproposal of a CI model that can be applied in the tourism sector, specifically in hotels, due to the relevance of this sector in many economies worldwide. In order to build the model a deep review of the CI literature was made and subsequently the content validation method was applied, for the purpose of identifying the most important items in the two first stages of the CI cycle: planning and collection.
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Key success factors to business intelligence solution implementation
García, José Manuel Villamarín
Pinzón, Beatriz Helena Díaz
BI projects
BI success
business intelligence
critical factors
key success factors
Business intelligence (BI) solutions have been adopted within organizations as amean to achieve a more grounded decision making process that results in better organizational outcomes. Nowadays, about 70% to 80% of business intelligence implementation projects fail due to both technological and managerial issues. Multi-methodology proposed by Mingers (2006) was followed to develop the research in four phases: appreciation, where documental search wasconducted through a literature review; analysis, where hypothetical structures related with the key success factors were proposed; assessment, where key success factors were assessed along with experts; and action, where research results discussion was shown. As a result, 13 factors that affect the business intelligence solution’s success were identified. Those factors contributeto improve planning and implementation of business intelligence projects, accomplishing in a greater extent the purposes of these projects.
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Business intelligence and SMEs: Bridging the gap
Papachristodoulou, Ekavi
Koutsaki, Margarita
Kirkos, Efstathios
Business intelligence
competitive intelligence
SMEs
According to research findings, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are facingproblems such as an excessively large volume of data, lack of information and lack of knowledge. Therefore, in order to make decisions on time, the managers of SMEs use mainly their experience, which implies a high risk of failure. Business intelligence (BI) is a useful and helpful tool, which brings many advantages and benefits to businesses. However, like any technology,it is accompanied by some limitations that must be overcome in order to help businesses to develop. This paper summarizes current research findings addressing the issue of the development and application of business intelligence systems for SMEs. The issues addressed are models for the estimation of the readiness of a SME to establish BI tools, alternative BI solutions for SMEs, benefits and challenges of BI in SMEs, implementation methods for BIsystems in SMEs and finally, BI systems in cloud computing platforms. Research papers dealing with these issues are analyzed and the results are presented. This paper contributes to the understanding of problems and potentials regarding the development and application of BI systems in SMEs.
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A new model for identifying emerging technologies
Hughes, Stephanie F.
Big data analytics
competitive intelligence
emerging technology
open innovation
technology sequence analysis
Today, the complexity of so many emerging technologies requires anunderstanding of adjacent technologies often originating from multiple industries. Technology sequence analysis has been used by organizations, governments and industries to help make sense of the many variables impacting the evolution of technologies. This technique relies heavily on the input of experts who can offer perspectives on the status of current technologieswhile also highlighting the potential opportunities in the future. However, the volume and speed at which scientific research is accelerating is making it nearly impossible for even the most knowledgeable expert to stay current with research in their own industries. Today however, the use of big data search tools can help identify emerging trends around disruptive technologieswell before many of the experts have fully grasped the impact of these technologies. Despite the fear of many in the intelligence community that these tools will make their jobs obsolete, we expect that the value of the intelligence expert will increase given their unique knowledge of relevant data sources and how to connect the data in meaningful ways to derive value for the firm. We propose a new forecasting model that incorporates a combination of technologysequencing analysis and big data tools within the organization while also leveraging experts from across the open innovation spectrum. This new model, informed by current client engagements, has the potential to create significant competitive advantages for organizations as they benefit from expanded search breadth, search depth and search speed all while leveraging a range of internal and external experts to make sense of the rapidly changingtechnological landscape confronting their environment.
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Integration of business intelligence with corporate strategic management
Alnoukari, Mouhib
Hanano, Abdellatif
Balanced scorecard
business intelligence
competitive intelligence
corporate performance management
corporate strategic management
strategic intelligence
Integration of business intelligence and corporate strategic management has adirect impact on modern and flexible organizations. This integration helps decision makers toimplement their corporate strategies, adapt easily to changes in the environment, and gaincompetitive advantages. This paper extends the studies in this domain, and clarifies therelationships between business intelligence and strategic management. It highlights also therole of business intelligence in corporate performance management and strategic intelligence.This paper proposes a BSC-BI framework that facilitates the integration of business intelligencewith a balanced scorecard methodology. The BSC-BI framework implementation isdemonstrated using a case study on the telecom field.
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Patent bibliometrics and its use for technology watch
Jürgens, Björn
Herrero-Solana, Victor
Competitive intelligence
nanotechnology
patent bibliometrics
patent indicators
patent information
patent statistics
patents
Spain
technology intelligence
technology monitoring
technology watch
Technology watch is a methodology for organisations to systematically analyzetechnical information in a continuous way in order to gain insight and competitive advantagein a specific technical domain and is based mainly on statistical analysis of patent information.Patent statistics are commonly based on bibliographic data and generated with bibliometrictechniques. In this paper we describe the differences between patent bibliometrics and classicbibliometrics and propose several patent indicators for technology watch activities which weclassified into four categories: performance, technology, patent value and collaborationindicators. In a case study we undertook a bibliometric patent analysis using the describedgroups of indicators in order to generate a technology watch of nanotechnology for the domainof a whole country (Spain) and explained the different data visualizations we used in order torepresent the indicators. We conclude that statistical analysis of patent information and itsvisualization is a powerful methodology for any competitive intelligence activity centred ontechnology but there are also some limitations to bear in mind when undertaking technologywatch activities using patent information discussed in terms of its timeliness, patentabilitycriteria, sector dependence, quantity vs. quality.
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Why care about competitive intelligence and market intelligence? The case of Ericsson and the Swedish Cellulose Company
Søilen, Klaus Solberg
Competitive intelligence
defensive position of top manager in distress theory
high salary theory argument of top managers
market intelligence
organizational theory
This article tries to show the importance of the competitive intelligence (CI) andmarket intelligence (MI) function by describing developments in two quite different Swedishmultinational companies. We see how top management can become the problem when thecompany is struggling to compete and how this affects the intelligence function. In the analysiswe compare the intelligence function in private companies with those of state and militaryorganizations and draw historical parallels. Moreover, the cases show what an important rolecompetitive and market intelligence continue to play in the age of information, especially duringthe past decade.
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An examination of the impact of business intelligence systems on organizational decision making and performance: The case of France
Gauzelin, Sophian
Bentz, Hugo
Business intelligence systems
competitive advantage
customer satisfaction
employee satisfaction
organization
SMEs
Turbulent times are a part of modern-day business, and the way a companyhandles disruptive events determines its success. Various technological tools have beendeveloped to help businesses overcome unforeseen and anticipated events that may impact thebusiness. One such technological tool is business intelligent systems, which help to gather dataregarding business operations and environment turning it into information that can be clearlyunderstood. Large companies have adopted the use of these big data analytic systems, but mostsmall and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) lag behind. There is little information on howbusiness intelligence systems impact SME businesses. This study examined the impact ofbusiness intelligence systems on organizational decision-making and performance. The studyconsists of an empirical qualitative research that was carried out with interviews of 200members of 10 selected SMEs. The study found out that when BI systems are deployed in SMEs,they facilitate timely decision making, improves organizational efficiency, enable a company tomeet client’s needs appropriately and lead to more satisfied employees.
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The impact of supply chain management on business intelligence
Langlois, Audrey
Chauvel, Benjamin
Business intelligence
information systems
real-time business intelligence
supply chain management
This conceptual paper investigates the impact of the supply chain on businessintelligence (BI) in private companies. The article focuses on these two subjects in order tobroadly understand the concept of business intelligence, supply chain and characteristicsimplement such as OLAP, data warehouse or data mining. It looks at the joint advantages ofthe business intelligence and supply chain concepts and revisits the traditional BI concept. Wefound that the supply chain includes many data samples collected from the first supplier to thelast customer, which have to be analysed by the company in order to be more efficient. Basedon these observations the authors argue for why it makes sense to see the BI function as anextension of supply chain management, but moreover they show how difficult it has become toseparate BI from other IT intensive processes in the organization.
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Identifying key effective factors on the implementation process of business intelligence in the banking industry of Iran
Rezaie, Salah
Mirabedini, Seyed Javad
Abtahi, Ataollah
Banking industry
business intelligence
fuzzy Delphi technique
implementing business intelligence
key factors
Though many organizations have turned to developing and using businessintelligence systems, not all have been successful in implementing such systems. These systemshave social-technical dimensions with many elements and are very complicated. Numerousstudies have been carried out on implementation and employment of business intelligence, butin the past studies only specific aspects and dimensions have been addressed. The aim of thisstudy is to identify key factors in the implementation process of business intelligence in theIranian banking industry. The present research is objectively applied as a survey study inimplementation strategy. Also it is a descriptive study in terms of the research plan and datacollection where two documentary and field study methods have been used for collecting data.The statistical population of this study comprises experts and professionals in informationtechnology who are active in implementing solutions for business intelligence in the bankingindustry of Iran. In this study, 16 people were chosen based on non-random judgment samplingcombined with targeted and snowball sampling as a statistical sample and their viewpointswere extracted and refined using the Fuzzy Delphi Technique. First through studying pastresearch records and reviewing literature of effective factors in implementing businessintelligence process, 37 factors were identified. Then by implementing five rounds of the FuzzyDelphi Technique, 39 factors were confirmed as significant among 37 factors affecting thebusiness intelligence implementation process in past studies and 10 factors proposed by experts.Also, these 39 factors were classified in nine main groups including organizational, human, dataquality, environmental, system ability, strategic, service quality, technical infrastructure, andmanagerial factors. Managers and executives of business intelligence projects in Iran's bankingindustry can achieve the given objectives and results by considering such significant factors inplanning and taking measures related to effective implementation of business intelligence.
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A Bayesian approach to developing a strategic early warning system for the French milk market
Bisson, Christophe
Gurpinar, Furkan
Bayesian networks
competitive intelligence
forecasting
milk market
strategic early warning system
A new approach is provided in our paper for creating a strategic early warningsystem allowing the estimation of the future state of the milk market as scenarios. This is inline with the recent call from the EU commission for tools that help to better address such ahighly volatile market. We applied different multivariate time series regression and Bayesiannetworks on a pre-determined map of relations between macro-economic indicators. Theevaluation of our findings with root mean square error (RMSE) performance score enhancesthe robustness of the prediction model constructed. Our model could be used by competitiveintelligence teams to obtain sharper scenarios, leading companies and public organisations tobetter anticipate market changes and make more robust decisions.
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A business intelligence framework for Sultan Qaboos University: A case study in the Middle East
Al Rashdi, Saud Sultan
Nair, Smitha Sunil Kumaran
Business intelligence
decision making
key business activity key performance indicator
maturity assessment
performance management
Higher education institutions generate big data, yet they are not exploited toobtain usable information. Making sense of data within organizations becomes the key factorfor success in maintaining sustainability within the market and gaining competitiveadvantages. Business intelligence and analytics addresses the challenges of data visibility anddata integrity that helps to shift the big data to provide deep insights into such data. Thisresearch aims to build a customized business intelligence (BI) framework for Sultan QaboosUniversity (SQU). The research starts with assessing the BI maturity of the educationalinstitutions prior to implementation followed by developing a BI prototype to test BI capabilitiesof performance management in SQU. The prototype has been tested for the key business activity(KBA): teaching and learning at one college of the university. The results show that theaggregation of the different KBAs and KPIs will contribute to the overall SQU performance andwill provide better visibility of how SQU as an organization is functioning, which is the keytowards the successful implementation of BI within SQU in the future.
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The perception of useful information derived from Twitter: A survey of professionals
Søilen, Klaus Solberg
Tontini, Gerson
Aagerup, Ulf
Bots
Twitter
business intelligence
competitive intelligence
consumer opinion mining
sentiment analysis
social media
In this study we gathered data from 220 professional users of information via asurvey. Twitter is perceived as a service for useful information but not for the reason one mayexpect, not because the content of the tweets give valuable information, but because of what canbe derived and extracted from the information that is being tweeted and not tweeted.Professional users are aware that tweets are being manipulated by communication departmentsso they adjust for this in their understanding of the content that is being delivered. For thesame reason “fake news” is not seen as a problem either by professionals. Twitter is seen asvaluable alongside other social media software (additional software solutions) and used directlytogether with other software (integrated software solutions). As a stand-alone service it is foundto be of less value to experienced users and there are no signs that Twitter is a valuable tool forlearning.
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An evaluation of competitive and technological intelligence tools: A cluster analysis of users’ perceptions
Fourati-Jamoussi, Fatma
Niamba, Claude-Narcisse
Duquennoy, Julien
Competitive and technological intelligence
cluster analysis
TTF model
TAM model
user perception
The purpose of this article is to discuss and evaluate the use of competitive and technological intelligence (CTI) tools by students to help designers of these tools get the best efficiency out of a monitoring process. This article introduces an application of the cluster analysis method and the competitive and technological intelligence literature. In order to evaluate the use of CTI tools, we deal with two evaluation models: Task-Technology Fit (TTF) and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). A survey was sent to users of CTI tools addressed to engineering students and the most pertinent replies were examined. The responses were analyzed by using the statistical software SPAD. Results showed a typology from the various profiles of users of this technology by using the method of classification. We note different perceptions between student users. Although this study remains focused on the individual perspective, it requires more examination about the organizational impact of the use of CTI tools. The identification of the different user profiles was done by using a cluster analysis. For the designers of CTI tools these results highlight the importance of user perception, suggesting designers take into account the perception of all user types. As these tools develop, more and more companies will be looking for skills of future engineers for monitoring and management of strategic information. That’s why practical courses in CTI are taught to the students in order to take into account the companies’ needs.
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Identifying and describing sub-processes in the strategic intelligence process by qualitative content analysis in an inductive way
Abbaspour, Ahmad
Amirkhani, Amir Hussein
Pour Ezzat, Ali Asghar
Hozori, Mohammad Javad
Competitive intelligence
strategic intelligence
process
content analysis
inductive way
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the sub-processes of the strategic intelligence process in organizational level analysis. Data were collected by searching the major academic and practitioner books, theses and journals in the Ebsco, Google Scholar and IranDoc databases in Persian and English. Nine thousand pages of text data were examined using content analysis. Fourteen main sub-processes were identified to describe the strategic intelligence process: (1) Identification of strategic environments and prioritizing them, (2) determination of organizational information needs and prioritizing them, (3) determination of monitoring period for each section of strategic environment and organization key information needs (KIN), (4) determination of information sources and assessment of information capturing, (5) external information scanning, (6) internal information extracting, (7) setting criteria for gathered information assessment, (8) information filtering, categorizing and abstracting, (9) information analysis, (10) interpretation and sense making (intelligence generation), (11) determination of intelligence users and intelligence distribution media, (12) intelligence distribution, (13) feedback from recipients, revision and adjustment, intelligence storage, and (14) intelligence use. The results provided useful insight for strategic intelligence process implementation in organizations and its effectiveness evaluation. The innovative aspect of this study is its response to a lack studies about strategic intelligence process modelling.
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Development of a competitive intelligence maturity model: Insights from Moroccan companies
Oubrich, Mourad
Hakmaoui, Abdelati
Bierwolf, Robert
Haddani, Mouna
Competitive intelligence
maturity model
information
competitive advantage
moroccan companies
This paper aims to assess the maturity level of competitive intelligence (CI) in Moroccan companies, so as to improve theirs practices, and to justify their investment in competitive intelligence. To do so, we have identified the maturity model based on a comprehensive review of recent literature. The objectives of this paper are threefold: (1) to determine the major purposes of a CI maturity model (CIMM), (2) to identify the types of CI dimensions and levels of maturity, (3) to evaluate Moroccan companies in terms of CI practice. Our approach is to develop a conceptual framework of the CI maturity model that articulates (1) dimensions of CI, and (2) maturity levels of CI. We note that little attention has been given in previous research to how CI is actually conducted in Moroccan companies. For this purpose, an empirical study was conducted. The results discuss various perspectives and insights from a competitive intelligence maturity model point of view in the Moroccan context. The results show that the majority of the Moroccan companies are in an early stage of the CI levels, where the CI practice is only to employ environment scanning and the competition in the business environment is not intense. We also note the absence of CI structure at this level. Most of these Moroccan companies are not able to cope with changes in the business environment. The CI systems and processes are released on an irregular basis. This study is the first to investigate the Competitive Intelligence Maturity Model (CIMM) in the Moroccan context. The findings of this research show that there are six CI dimensions (CI culture of an organization; CI deliverables; CI sourcing; CI cycle; CI investment in terms of resources; CI users and CI application) that should be taken into account in CI implementation with regard to the CI level (early, mid, world class).
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Israeli start-ups – especially in cyber security: Can a new model enhance their survival rate?
Barnea, Avner
Adaptability
competition
competitive review model
competitive intelligence
four corners model
Israel
lean start-up
strategic planning
start-ups
Start-up companies are the fastest growing business in Israel. However, half of them do not last through their fourth year. This paper looks into the issue of the power of Israeli start-ups to survive and to become successful companies. The challenge is to seek new directions, which will help this sector to change this disappointing course. The start-up sector has a significant contribution to the strength of the Israeli economy which leans on its intellectual resources. Based on my continuing consulting in implementing competitive intelligence to local Israeli start-ups and further research that I have done by following closely the added value of developing capabilities, which enable better understanding of the external environment, I have found that one of the main causes of the high percentage of failures of Israeli start-ups is the difficulties in comprehending the competitive landscape, which has a significant contribution to making them less competitive. By using a new model, the competitive review model, which considers the special attributes of start-ups, especially in cyber security, this kind of small company can be better prepared for intense competition. This is in addition to the Lean start-up model, which is not executed in this segment in Israel and faces serious resistance based mainly on opposition to unfamiliar input. Based on combining the new competitive review model with existing analytical models, a few local start-ups' executives have already matured by awareness about the value of sensing the external environment, which have the potential to change the course of at least some of the Israeli start-ups and increase the success rate for this sector.
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Measuring public acceptance with opinion mining: The case of the energy industry with long-term coal R&D investment projects
Nuortimo, Kalle
Carbon Capture and Storage
CCS
greenhouse gas control
market deployment
opinion mining
public acceptance
web-intelligence
New Web 2.0-based technologies have emerged in the field of competitor/marketintelligence. This paper discusses the factors influencing long-term product development,namely coal combustion long-term R&D/Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology, andpresents a new method application for studying it via opinion mining. The technology marketdeployment has been challenged by public acceptance. The media images/opinions of coal powerand CCS are studied through the opinion mining approach with a global machine learning basedmedia analysis using M-Adaptive software. This is a big data-based learning machine mediasentiment analysis focusing on both editorial and social media, including both structured datafrom payable sources and unstructured data from social media. If the public acceptance isignored, it can at its worst cause delayed or abandoned market deployment of long-term energyproduction technologies, accompanied by techno-economic issues. The results are threefold:firstly, it is suggested that this type of methodology can be applied to this type of researchproblem. Secondly, from the case study, it is apparent that CCS is unknown also based on thistype of approach. Finally, poor media exposure may have influenced technology marketdeployment in the case of CCS.
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Social business intelligence: Review and research directions
Gioti, Helena
Ponis, Stavros T.
Panayiotou, Nikolaos
Βig data
business intelligence
review
social business intelligence
social media
Social business intelligence (SBI) is a rather novel discipline, emerged in theacademic and business literature as a result of the convergence of two distinct researchdomains: business intelligence (BI) and social media. Traditional BI scientists and practitioners,after an inevitable initial shock, are currently discovering and acknowledge the potential of usergenerated content (UGD) published in social media as an invaluable and inexhaustible sourceof information capable of supporting a wide range of business activities. The confluence of thesetwo emerging domains is already producing new added value organizational processes andenhanced business capabilities utilized by companies all over the world to effectively harnesssocial media data and analyze them in order to produce added value information such ascustomer profiles and demographics, search habits, and social behaviors. Currently the SBIdomain is largely uncharted, characterized by controversial definitions of terms and concepts,fragmented and isolated research efforts, obstacles created by proprietary data, systems andtechnologies that are not mature yet. This paper aspires to be one of the few -to our knowledge contemporaryefforts to explore the SBI scientific field, clarify definitions and concepts,structure the documented research efforts in the area and finally formulate an agenda of futureresearch based on the identification of current research shortcomings and limitations.
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Investigating the competitive intelligence practices of Peruvian fresh grapes exporters
Bisson, Christophe
Tang Tong, Maria Mercedes
Behavior
competitive intelligence
grapes exporters
Peru
typology
This paper reports an empirical study of Peruvian fresh grapes exporters with theaim of delineating the behavioral and operational typology of their competitive intelligencepractices. Cluster analysis was used as an exploratory tool to determine the correlation, if any,between the size of the company, grapes exports share of total exports, the percentage of theRed Globe variety in total grapes exports and the size of the grape farm with the typology andthe average price received at export between August 2016 and July 2017. The behavioral andoperational typology of competitive intelligence practices model, developed by Wright et al,(2012), was used. The findings reveal that exporters have a positive behavior towardscompetitive intelligence practices, but cannot make good use of them due to a lack of knowledge,and deficiencies in organization and in technological and IT systems support. As 37 companiesparticipated in this experiment, this study could be extended to all non-traditional Peruvianagricultural exports. It has been possible to identify areas where changes are needed to enablethese exporters to perform at a higher level of competence. In addition, it appeared that aslightly higher level of attitude and IT systems support pays off as medium-sized companiesachieved a higher price per ton compared to big companies. This study is the first to present atypology of competitive intelligence practices in Peru and is one of the very first to studycompetitive intelligence in this country and agriculture.
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An analysis of IP management strategies of ICT companies based on patent filings
Shaikh, Shabib-Ahmed
Singhal, Tarun Kumar
Corporate strategy
IPR
patents
software patents
strategies
The number of patents being filed around the globe in the field of information andcommunication technologies is increasing each year. Patents are seen as strategic assets forcompanies as they provide a competitive advantage and at the same time ensure freedom tooperate and form a basis for new alliances. However, they can also be viewed as restrictions andmarket barriers for new entrants who need to build their own intellectual property rightsportfolio, which in turn would give them credibility in the market. There is a need, therefore, tolearn from the world leaders who have aligned their business strategies with intellectualproperty strategies and have succeeded. As no publication or public disclosure about intellectualproperty strategy has been made by any of the companies, the only way to understandintellectual property strategy is to look at patent filings, analyze them and, based on the trends,deduce strategy. This paper tries to identify the intellectual property strategies of five US andIndian IT companies by analyzing their patents.
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Business intelligence for social media interaction in the travel industry in Indonesia
Yulianto, Michael
Girsang, Abba Suganda
Rumagit, Reinert Yosua
Business intelligence
lexicon based classification
sentiment analysis
social media 1.
Electronic ticket (eticket) provider services are growing fast in Indonesia, makingthe competition between companies increasingly intense. Moreover, most of them have the sameservice or feature for serving their customers. To get back the feedback of their customers, manycompanies use social media (Facebook and Twitter) for marketing activity or communicatingdirectly with their customers. The development of current technology allows the company totake data from social media. Thus, many companies take social media data for analyses. Thisstudy proposed developing a data warehouse to analyze data in social media such as likes,comments, and sentiment. Since the sentiment is not provided directly from social media data,this study uses lexicon based classification to categorize the sentiment of users’ comments. Thisdata warehouse provides business intelligence to see the performance of the company based ontheir social media data. The data warehouse is built using three travel companies in Indonesia.As a result, this data warehouse provides the comparison of the performance based on the socialmedia data.
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Mapping the structure and evolution of JISIB: A bibliometric analysis of articles published in the Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business between 2011 and 2017
López-Robles, José Ricardo
Otegi-Olaso, Jose Ramón
Arcos, Rubén
Gamboa- Rosales, Nadia Karina
Gamboa-Rosales, Hamurabi
Business intelligence
competitive intelligence
conceptual evolution map
coword analysis
science mapping analysis
Today, organizations are facing technological, economic and social challenges thatrequire the intelligent use of data, information and knowledge. To this end, organizations aredeveloping capabilities around intelligence. From the organizational point of view, intelligencein business is a relatively new field study, so it is convenient to know and understand what themain themes are and their evolution in order to facilitate their integration. Taking this intoaccount, the current research conducts a conceptual and structural analysis of the Journal ofIntelligence Studies in Business (JISIB). JISIB is one of the few academic journals devotedpurely to publishing articles about business intelligence, collective intelligence, competitiveintelligence, economic intelligence, market intelligence, marketing intelligence, scientific andtechnical intelligence, strategic intelligence, and their equivalent terms in other languages. Thisanalysis is carried out by quantifying the main bibliometric performance indicators, identifyingthe main authors and evaluating the development of the main themes within it using SciMATas a bibliometric analysis software. To this purpose, the documents published in JISIB from2011 to 2017 were retrieved from two different sources: the JISIB official web page and the Webof Science. In this way, the bibliometric performance analysis evaluates the impact of thescientific output based on publications and their citations, while science mapping illustrates theintellectual structure of the journal and the evolution of the main research themes. Bearing inmind that JISIB provides an open platform for the publication of original research articles,opinion articles, book reviews and conference proceedings about the intelligence field, thisresearch allows to understand its structure and evolution and all the themes associated with it.It provides a framework to support intelligence researchers and professionals in thedevelopment and direction of future research by identifying emerging, transversal, core anddeclining themes. Finally, this study includes a performance analysis of JISIB.
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Exploratory study of competitive intelligence in Mexico
Ojinaga, Eduardo Rafael Poblano
CI practices in México
competitive intelligence
meta-analysis
In order to increase their competitiveness, companies need information forproblem analysis, to develop strategies and for decisions making. One way to achieve this isthrough methodologies, among which competitive intelligence stands out. For Pellissier &Nenzhelele (2013) competitive intelligence is a process or practice that produces anddisseminates actionable intelligence by planning, ethically and legally collecting, processing andanalyzing information from and about the internal and external or competitive environment inorder to help decision-makers in decision-making and to provide a competitive advantage to theenterprise. Because of its importance this paper presents an investigation using a meta-analysismethodology of 72 papers published between 2000 and 2015 of applications of competitiveintelligence in México. In recent years the practice of competitive intelligence has beenincreasing in México, though its use is not yet widespread. This is why it is important todisseminate and promote the growth of competitive intelligence theory.
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Competitive and technology intelligence to reveal the most influential authors and inter-institutional collaborations on additive manufacturing for hand orthoses
Garcia-Garcia, Leonardo A.
Rodríguez, Marisela
3D printing
additive manufacturing
betweenness centrality
bibliographic coupling
competitive intelligence
hand orthoses
network map analysis
scientometrics
Additive manufacturing (AM) is revolutionizing the health industry, where itprovides innovative solutions for the production of personalized devices, such as hand orthoses.However, the scientific research dynamics in this topic have not yet been investigated. Thisstudy aims to fill this gap through the application of a competitive and technology intelligence(CTI) methodology enhanced by a scientometric and network map analysis. Major advances inthe fabrication of hand orthoses using AM, the presence of collaborations, and the mostinfluential authors were determined. Specifically, network map analysis, bibliographicoccurrence and bibliographic coupling were conducted on documents retrieved from Scopus andthe Web of Science (WoS), and on patents from more than 104 authorities. Results showed onlynine published patent families and 34 research articles on this topic from 2006 to 2016. Tenpapers concern static orthoses, while 24 deal with dynamic orthoses and exoskeletons. Theindegree and outdegree parameters and the betweenness centrality of these documents enabledus to determine the most cited authors and instances of collaboration (papers co-authoredbetween institutions). Dr. Paterson A. M. J. was the most influential author, with fourpublications with the highest betweenness centrality in the network (189), which accounted forthe most cited document with five citations. The institution with the most publications wasLoughborough University, with four papers, and the collaboration between affiliations was rare.These documents review important aspects of manufacturing orthoses using AM, andadditionally pay particular attention to the importance of personalised orthoses where AMcontributes. Notably, these papers focused primarily on studies for the development of amethodology for the fabrication of hand orthoses using AM, but they do not present anyapplication. This research provides insights to better understand the dynamics of research anddevelopment in the orthopaedics domain, specifically for hand orthoses.
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Characterizing business intelligence tasks, use and users in the workplace
Svarre, Tanja
Gaardboe, Rikke
Business intelligence
information system use
workplace studies
This paper investigates business intelligence (BI) tasks, use and users in aworkplace setting. The study reports on a mixed methods study of users in three different typesof organisations employing BI. 1052 respondents answered a survey and 15 individual and 3group interviews were conducted to elaborate on the survey results. The study finds that themajority of public BI users are employees, and fewer managers and students, that are handlinga variety of tasks. Although they can experience challenges learning and using the BI system,they are still satisfied with it from different perspectives.
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A competitive intelligence model based on information literacy: organizational competitiveness in the context of the 4th Industrial Revolution
Ottonicar, Selma Leticia Capinzaiki
Valentim, Marta Lígia Pomim
Mosconi, Elaine
Competitive intelligence
Industry 4.0
information literacy
systematic literature review
This paper investigated how information literacy and competitive intelligence areconnected in business management and information science fields. It demonstrates thecontribution of information literacy in the phases of the competitive intelligence process. Thispaper is relevant, since the model supports creativity and collaborative innovation in smallbusinesses in the context of Industry 4.0. Furthermore, it contributed to connect the informationscience and business management fields, so it is multidisciplinary. It also proposes a theoreticalmodel of information literacy and competitive intelligence in the context of Industry 4.0, whichcan be used for applied research. The methodology was developed based on a systematicliterature review (SLR) of information literature and competitive intelligence. These conceptscontribute to the development of a framework and a conceptual model in which the three themesare interconnected and demonstrate that information literacy can efficiently contribute to thecompetitive intelligence process, especially in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Exploring new ways to utilise the market intelligence (MI) function in corporate decisions: Case opinion mining of nuclear power
Petteri Nuortimo, Kalle
Härkönen, Janne
Company media analysis
editorial media
learning machine
market intelligence
media-analysis
nuclear power
opinion mining
social media
web intelligence
The challenge in today’s corporations is that even though the technology portfolio of a company plays a crucial role in delivering revenue—falling as a topic mainly under the area of technology management—technology may have a negative image due to observed risks or failing the sustainability criteria. It may influence the company’s image and brand image, possibly also influencing decisions at corporate level. The monitoring of technology sentiments is therefore emphasized, benefiting from the advanced methods for business environment scanning, namely market and competitor intelligence functions. This paper utilizes a new big data based method, mostly utilized in market(MI)/competitor intelligence(CI) functions of the company, opinion mining, to analyse the global media sentiment of nuclear power and projects deploying the technology. With this approach, it is easier to understand the linkage to corporate images of companies deploying the technology and also related corporate decisions, mainly done in the areas of technology market deployment, marketing and strategic planning. The results indicate how the media sentiment towards nuclear power has been mostly negative globally, particularly in social media. In addition, results from similar analyses from a single company’s images for the companies currently deploying the technology are seemingly less negative, indicating the influence of company’s communication and branding activities. This paper has implications showing that a technology’s media sentiment can influence a company’s brand image, marketing communications and the need for actions when technology is deployed. In conclusion, there seems to be a need for better co-operation between different corporate functions, namely technology management, MI, marketing and strategic planning, in order to indicate technology image impacts and also counteract firestorms from social media.
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Enhancing competitive response to market challenges with a strategic intelligence maturity model
Bleoju, Gianita
Capatina, Alexandru
Capability maturity model
intelligence provider
opportunity captor
opportunity defender
strategic intelligence
vigilant learner
Tracking meaningful insights about companies’ exposures to high risk of failure in competitive markets, intelligence studies in business should listen to practitioners’ signals and act in providing decision making support to systematic scanning for valuable information. In order to gain robustness in confronting unexpected events in real markets, companies should adopt an unstructured learning perspective with maturity assessment tools, while purposely pooling strategic intelligence (SI) skills. By bridging organizational maturity modeling with a future orientation stream of literature and intelligence studies in business, this conceptual research aims to highlight a genuine Strategic Intelligence Capability Maturity Model (SI CMM), capable of purposely addressing the challenge of aligning detective and anticipatory organizational capabilities. The conceptual model highlights the degree of preparedness of four SI profiles behaviors (intelligence provider, vigilant learner, opportunity captor and opportunity defender – previously developed by the authors) against seven levels of maturity. The SI CMM framework outlines both conditioned scanning capabilities (the first five SI readiness levels) and enablers to anticipate future market trends (the last two SI readiness levels). The novel approach of the strategic intelligence readiness framework supplies companies with a valuable organizational learning tool to close the skills gap through an opportunity provider profile. The main features lie in coordination and sharing SI common knowledge to enhance preparedness in forward-looking competitive pressures. The conceptual framework invites academia and the community of intelligence experts in business to evaluate the relevance of the new conceptualization, clarity of constructs and complementary nature of correlation and causation with the proposed SI CMM model
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How managers stay informed about the surrounding world
Solberg Søilen, Klaus
Business intelligence
intelligence studies
knowledge management
the proprietary cloud
workplace learning
In this paper we look at how managers and knowledge workers stay informed about the events in the outside world that affect their organizations. Data was collected using a survey of 308 subjects from around the world. A model for how managers stay informed is presented. We introduce the idea of the proprietary cloud. The findings have implications for managers who want to compare their own sources of information and improve routines for information gathering.
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Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business; Vol. 9 No. 1 (2019): Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business Vol 9 Nr 1 2019
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2001-0168
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