Justifying Your CI Budget to Management - What is the ROI? - Maintaining a competitive-intelligence unit within a small-business environment can be a tremendous strain on the company's resources. How to justify your competitive-intelligence budget and why it should be increased in times of rapid change in your industry.
Publisher: CEO Refresher     Author: Ian Smith   

Key Intelligence Topics: A Process to Identify and Define Intelligence Needs - Defining an organization’s actual intelligence needs, and doing so in a way that results in the production of intelligence that management feels compelled to bet on, is one of our profession’s most elusive goals.
Publisher: Competitive Intelligence Review     Author: Jan P. Herring   

Making Data Actionable - Business intelligence has evolved from a tool used by only a few analysts and power users into a true enterprise application. Here’s how three progressive companies are using BI to gain strategic and tactical advantages.
Publisher: Businessfinancemag.com     Author: Samuel Greengard   

Managing the CI Department: Creating Your Internal Brand Identity - Starting a CI unit or enhancing its services is a difficult challenge. It's not just “whom you know” or “what you know.” Instead, success relies on social interactions combined with the principles of business, operating within a particular corporate culture.
Publisher: Competitive Intelligence Magazine     Author: Neil J. Simon, John Hopkins   

Perhaps It Really Is What You Know - Business-intelligence software is booming as companies get serious about analyzing the data they collect.
Publisher: CFO.com     Author: Scott Leibs   

Practical Tips for the Competitive Intelligence Professional Who Wants to Gain Credibility - Key insights for the CI professional including a list of tools.
Publisher: www.competia.com/magazine     Author: Estelle Métayer   

Producing Value from Information and Market Data - Collaborative supply chains will have to integrate data streams into business processes and enterprise software in order to make their information assets directly actionable, and thereby valuable.
Publisher: ASCET.com     Author: John du Pre Gauntt, Edward Shenderovich   

Profiling in Competitive Analysis - The need for profiling has been recognized for various aspects of competitive analysis. However, there has been no real guidance as to when and how it is best handled.
Publisher: Competitive Intelligence Review     Author: Carolyn M. Vella and John J. McGonagle   

Prospecting for Experts - To respond quickly to shifting markets, both individuals and organizations need an easy way to locate in-house experts--people who have built up stores of knowledge in a particular domain--and tap their knowledge.
Publisher: destinationKM.com     Author: Bruce Cuthbertson   

Real time CRM analytics: the future of BI ? - The idea of ‘real time’ CRM analytics is set to spur the next phase of growth in the Business Intelligence (BI) market.
Publisher: KMWorld.com     Author: Helena Schwenk