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Managing Strategic
Intelligence:
Mark Xu
University of Portsmouth, UK
Techniques and Technologies
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Managing strategic intelligence : techniques and technologies / Mark Xu, editor.
p. cm.
Summary: “This book focuses on environment information scanning and organization-wide support for strategic intelligence. It also provides practical
guidance to organizations for developing effective approaches, mechanisms, and systems to scan, refine, and support strategic information provision”--
Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59904-243-5 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-59904-245-9 (ebook)
1. Business intelligence--Management. 2. Strategic management. 3. Information technology--Management. I. Xu, Mark.
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Table of Contents
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
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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