Competitive intelligence in Spain

Abstract

This study presents the main results of a survey of a sample of Spanish firms which include competitive intelligence and/or technology watch (TW) services in their organigrams or which are consumers of such intelligence products. The objectives were to acquire information on (i) the model (whether centralized or decentralized) of their intelligence services and personnel and their consumption of external intelligence consulting services and TW platforms; (ii) the methods they use to determine what information they need; (iii) the means they use to obtain that information; (iv) areas in which they seek information (competitors, consumers, economic situation, etc.); (v) their methods of analysis; (vi) the products generated by that analysis; and (vii) how they promote intelligence tasks internally. The results and the main conclusions are provided in the corresponding sections.

Identifying the information behavior in competitive intelligence process: a paradigm model for medical sciences universities

“…, 2016; Chevallier et al. , 2016; Calof, 2017; Chawinga and Chipeta, 2017; Muñoz-Cañavate and Alves-Albero, 2017) and in information acquisition phase, only the sources and channels uses have been examined. But studies such as Bose (2008), Cloutier (2013), Pellissier and Nenzhelele (2013), Salguero et al .…”

“…In a number of studies (Bose, 2008;Dishman and Calof, 2008;Johns and Van Doren, 2010;Wright et al, 2012;Mariadoss et al, 2014;Jin and Ju, 2014a, b;Cantonnet et al, 2015;K€ oseoglu et al, 2016;Chevallier et al, 2016;Calof, 2017;Chawinga and Chipeta, 2017;Muñoz-Cañavate and Alves-Albero, 2017) and in information acquisition phase, only the sources and channels uses have been examined. But studies such as Bose (2008), Cloutier (2013), Pellissier and Nenzhelele (2013), Salguero et al (2017), Ottonicar et al (2018), and in addition to information sources and channels, they mentioned information acquisition both ethically and legally in the competitive intelligence process.…”

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“…All 37 All sizes Israel All 39 Large [Garcia-Alsina et al, 2016] Spain Education 14 Large [Munoz-Canavate, Alves-Albero, 2017] Spain All 47 Large [Drieman, 2018] Global All 408 All sizes Europe All 156 All sizesgenerally SCIP [Crayon, 2020] Primarily North America All 1000 All sizes…”