Competitive Intelligence and Decision Problems
The development of a research, teaching, or application of competitive (economic) intelligence requires a strategic and transverse vision in regards to related issues. It is essential to integrate the role of culture when interpreting results, either from the training of a specialist or in respect to a country or region. The authors of this book, members of an expert group supported by the CNRS in France, bring all of their talents together to create a comprehensive book that does just this and more.
Table of Contents:
PART 1. MODELS AND TOOLS 1
Chapter 1. Model Use: From a Decision-Making Problem to a Set of Research Problems 3
Philippe KISLIN
1.1. Introduction: why model? 3
1.2. General presentation of the Watcher Information Search Problem model 5
1.3. Dimensions and aspects of the model 6
1.4. Description of model elements 9
1.5. Conclusion: toward flexibility in the model 23
1.6. Bibliography 24
Chapter 2. Analytical Tools for Competitive Intelligence: from Data Collection to Data Processing 25
Ilhème GHALAMALLAH, Eloïse LOUBIER and Bernard DOUSSET
2.1. Introduction 25
2.2. Overview of the multidimensional analysis model 28
2.3. Application of the multidimensional analysis model 31
2.4. Conclusion 41
2.5. Bibliography 42
Chapter 3. The Synergy of Knowledge Management and Competitive Intelligence 45
Bolanle OLADEJO and Adenike O. OSOFISAN
3.1. Introduction 45
3.2. Theoretical context 46
3.3. Knowledge acquisition strategy 59
3.4. Formalization of knowledge 59
3.5. Conclusion 63
3.6. Appendices 64
3.7. Bibliography 65
Chapter 4. Collaborative Information Seeking in the Competitive Intelligence Process 69
Victor ODUMUYIWA
4.1. Introduction 69
4.2. The CI process 70
4.3. From information retrieval to CIR 71
4.4. Facilitation and management of CIS 78
4.5. Collective information seeking scenario 86
4.6. Conclusion 88
4.7. Bibliography 89
Chapter 5. Study of Risk Factors in Competitive Intelligence Decision Making: A Cognitive Approach 93
Olufade F.W. ONIFADE, Odile THIERY, Adenike O. OSOFISAN and Gérald DUFFING
5.1. Decision making and decision problems 93
5.2. Risks and RFs in CI 100
5.3. Cognitive capacity, a risk, and decision factor 105
5.4. Conclusion 109
5.5. Bibliography 110
Chapter 6. Multimedia Information Seeking Through Competitive Intelligence Process 113
Hanène MAGHREBI
6.1. Introduction 113
6.2. The two dimensions of CI: decisions and information 114
6.3. Multimedia information: between complexity and accessibility 116
6.4. The information seeking process: an overview of paradigmatic evolution 116
6.5. Actors involved in information seeking processes and problem solving 117
6.6. Applying a user-centered approach to facilitate multimedia information seeking 120
6.7. Conclusion 132
6.8. Bibliography 133
Chapter 7. Strategies for Analyzing Chinese Information Sources from a Competitive Intelligence Perspective 135
Nadège GUENEC
7.1. Introduction135
7.2. Chinese scientific information as an essential source of information 137
7.3. A global vision of the sector through patent analysis 141
7.4. Chinese sources of scientific information 145
7.5. Automatic processing of information by bibliometrical analysis of metadata 149
7.6. Conclusion 155
7.7. Bibliography 157
Chapter 8. Generic Tagging Strategy Using a Semio-Contextual Approach to the Corpus for the Creation of Controlled Databases 159
Lise VERLAET
8.1. Introduction 159
8.2. The adaptive journal concept 160
8.3. A generic tagging strategy: models using the ASCC 165
8.4. Conclusion 179
8.5. Bibliography 181
Chapter 9. Design and Development of a Model for Generating and Exploiting Annotation in the Context of Economic Intelligence 183
Olusoji B. OKUNOYE and Charles O. UWADIA
9.1. Introduction 183
9.2. Annotation as a concept 184
9.3. Annotation in EI 185
9.4. Proposition 189
9.5. Annotation model and architectural components 192
9.6. Bibliography 196
Chapter 10. Contribution of Cognitive Sciences to Document Indexing in Scientific, Technical, and Economic Watch for Competitive Intelligence 199
Elisabeth PAOLI-SCARBONCHI and Nadège GUENEC
10.1. Introduction 199
10.2. Functionality of the PIETRA platform: general presentation 201
10.3. Global usage strategy 202
10.4. Operation of the platform 202
10.5. Elaborated databases 219
10.6. Conclusion 219
10.7. Bibliography 220
PART 2. CI AND GOVERNANCE 223
Chapter 11. Integration of Competitive Intelligence and Watch in an Academic Scientific Research Laboratory 225
Jacky KISTER and Henri DOU
11.1. Introduction 225
11.2. Existing structures in universities and research organizations 226
11.3. Research structures, research actors and evaluation in the context of CI integration 228
11.4. Clusters and their power of attraction 231
11.5. Strategic analysis units, a support for the development of laboratories and of CI 233
11.6. Conclusion 241
11.7. Bibliography 242
Chapter 12. E-Health and Societal and Territorial Intelligence in France: Collective Knowledge Production Issues and New Network Interface Organizations 247
Christian BOURRET
12.1. Introduction 247
12.2. E-health, the convergence of health issues, and ICT 248
12.3. Toward a new territorialization of healthcare management 251
12.4. E-health and CI: societal dimensions and territorial intelligence 254
12.5. Issues in the production of collective knowledge 257
12.6. Shared information systems at regional level: a step toward societal and territorial information systems with a health component? 261
12.7. Conclusion 263
12.8. Bibliography 264
Chapter 13. Governance and Short-Term Product Development in Clusters – An Example: The FIRE Application 269
Henri DOU
13.1. Introduction 269
13.2. Considerations on the development of clusters 270
13.3. Grievances of small businesses and industries 271
13.4. The context of the SCS cluster, PACA, France 273
13.5. Origins of the FIRE project 274
13.6. From design to creation and commercialization 276
13.7. Conclusion 277
13.8. Bibliography 278
Chapter 14. Competitive Intelligence and the Development of Corporate Universities 281
Cláudia CAMELO, Miguel Rombert TRIGO, Luc QUONIAM and João Casqueira CARDOSO
14.1. Introduction 281
14.2. Competitive intelligence 282
14.3. Corporate universities 286
14.4. The role of CI in the creation of corporate universities 290
14.5. Corporate universities and potential domains of action 291
14.6. Integrated CI services in corporate universities 293
14.7. Conclusion 296
14.8. Bibliography 296
Chapter 15. Emerging Functions for Driving Competitive Intelligence at Regional Level 299
Audrey KNAUF
15.1. Regional systems for CI 300
15.2. Competitiveness clusters 305
15.3. Survey of CI systems 310
15.4. The role of coordinator 315
15.5. Conclusion 323
15.6. Bibliography 324
Chapter 16. Attractiveness of Territories and Territorial Intelligence: Indicators 327
Nathalie FABRY and Sylvain ZEGHNI
16.1. Introduction 327
16.2. Attractiveness and value of a territory: elements of analysis 328
16.3. Attractiveness and implementation of a TI approach 333
16.4. Conclusion 340
16.5. Bibliography 340
16.6. Appendix A: grid for territorial analysis by aspect 343
List of Authors 345
Index 347
