MANAGING STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE : TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES

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MANAGING STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE : TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES

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ISBN 9781599042435

Pages 0

Year 2007

Edition 1

Publisher IGI GLOBAL (IDEA GROUP)

Subject MANAGEMENT

~~Rs 14520.00~~ Rs 11616.00

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 .............................................................................................................................................. xi Preface ................................................................................................................................................. xii Acknowledgment ............................................................................................................................... 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 .................................... 1 Chapter II Business Intelligence: Benefits, Applications, and Challenges / Stuart Maguire and Habibu Suluo ....................................................................................................... 14 Section II Strategic Intelligence Framework and Practice Chapter III The Nature of Strategic Intelligence, Current Practice and Solutions / Mark Xu and Roland Kaye ................................................................................................................... 36 Chapter IV A Strategic Marketing Intelligence Framework Reinforced by Corporate Intelligence/ Peter Trim and Yang-Im Lee ................................................................................................................ 55 Chapter V Supporting Executive Intelligence Activities with Agent-Based Executive Information Systems / Vincent Ong, Yanqing Duan, and Brian Mathews .......................... 69 Chapter VI Managing Executive Information Systems for Strategic Intelligence in South Africa and Spain / Udo Richard Averweg and José L. Roldán .................................................. 87 Table of Contents Section III Enhancing Environment Scanning and Intelligence Practice: Techniques Chapter VII Understanding Key Intelligence Needs (KINs) / Adeline du Toit ....................................................... 111 Chapter VIII Awareness and Assessment of Strategic Intelligence: A Diagnostic Tool / François Brouard .......... 122 Chapter IX Gaining Strategic Intelligence Through the Firm’s Market Value: The Hospitality Industry / Juan Luis Nicolau .................................................................................... 141 Chapter X Knowledge Creation and Sharing: A Role for Complex Methods of Inquiry and Paraconsistent Logic / Peter Bednar and Christine Welch ............................................ 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 .............................................. 179 Chapter XII Intelligent Supply Chain Management with Automatic Identification Technology / Dong Li, Xiaojun Wang, Kinchung Liu, and Dennis Kehoe .............................................................. 202 Chapter XIII An Ontology-Based Intelligent System Model for Semantic Information Process / Mark Xu, Vincent Ong, and Yanqing Duan ........................................................................................ 224 Chapter XIV Bibliometry Technique and Software for Patent Intelligence Mining / Henri Dou and Jean-Marie Dou ........................................................................................................ 241 Compiled References ........................................................................................................................ 270 About the Contributors ................................................................................................................... 297 Index ................................................................................................................................................... 303

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