Description :
Environments needing information technology and management skills combined often find that strategic information and intelligence is not always readily available. How to scan management environments for relevant information and then make sense of the information remains a challenge.
Managing Strategic Intelligence: Techniques and Technologies builds a network of excellence in effectively managing strategic information for senior management. It focuses on environment information scanning and organization-wide support for strategic intelligence. Managing Strategic Intelligence: Techniques and Technologies prompts further development for theories and best practices in strategic intelligence, and provides future direction for innovative systems by using intelligent agents. This book also provides practical guidance to organizations on developing effective approaches, mechanisms, and systems to scan, refine, and support
Content :
Foreword
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xi
Preface
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xii
Acknowledgment
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xvi
Section I
Understanding Strategic Intelligence
Chapter I
Leveraging What Your Company Really Knows:
A Process View of Strategic Intelligence /
Donald Marchand and Amy Hykes
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1
Chapter II
Business Intelligence: Benefits, Applications, and Challenges /
Stuart Maguire and Habibu Suluo
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14
Section II
Strategic Intelligence Framework and Practice
Chapter III
The Nature of Strategic Intelligence, Current Practice and Solutions /
Mark Xu and Roland Kaye
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36
Chapter IV
A Strategic Marketing Intelligence Framework Reinforced by Corporate Intelligence/
Peter Trim and Yang-Im Lee
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55
Chapter V
Supporting Executive Intelligence Activities with Agent-Based
Executive Information Systems /
Vincent Ong, Yanqing Duan, and Brian Mathews
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69
Chapter VI
Managing Executive Information Systems for Strategic Intelligence in
South Africa and Spain /
Udo Richard Averweg and José L. Roldán
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87
Table of Contents
Section III
Enhancing Environment Scanning and Intelligence Practice: Techniques
Chapter VII
Understanding Key Intelligence Needs (KINs) /
Adeline du Toit
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111
Chapter VIII
Awareness and Assessment of Strategic Intelligence: A Diagnostic Tool /
François Brouard
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122
Chapter IX
Gaining Strategic Intelligence Through the Firm’s Market Value:
The Hospitality Industry /
Juan Luis Nicolau
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141
Chapter X
Knowledge Creation and Sharing: A Role for Complex Methods of
Inquiry and Paraconsistent Logic /
Peter Bednar and Christine Welch
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159
Section IV
Supporting Strategic Intelligence Processing: Technologies
Chapter XI
Using Grid for Data Sharing to Support Intelligence in Decision Making /
Nik Bessis, Tim French, Marina Burakova-Lorgnier, and Wei Huang
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179
Chapter XII
Intelligent Supply Chain Management with Automatic Identification Technology /
Dong Li, Xiaojun Wang, Kinchung Liu, and Dennis Kehoe
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202
Chapter XIII
An Ontology-Based Intelligent System Model for Semantic Information Process /
Mark Xu, Vincent Ong, and Yanqing Duan
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224
Chapter XIV
Bibliometry Technique and Software for Patent Intelligence Mining /
Henri Dou and Jean-Marie Dou
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241
Compiled References
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270
About the Contributors
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297
Index
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303
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