A survey of CI professionals reveals that the primary use of the Internet in competitive intelligence involves reducing costs and improving the quality of primary and secondary information. However, there is also significant interest among CI practitioners in using the Internet to collect informatio
Intelligent agents for competitive intelligence: Survey of applications
β Scribed by Kevin C. Desouza
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Weight
- 103 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1058-0247
- DOI
- 10.1002/cir.1032
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
In this article the author discusses a rather recent paradigm to artificialβintelligenceβbased computing, namely intelligent agents for generating competitive intelligence. The explosion in Internet use and private network development can be viewed as both a blessing and a curse. Companies that can effectively manage available information without suffering from βinformation overloadβ are leaders in their industry as they generate competitive intelligence. Those who drown in the information are part of history or will be soon. The article concludes by highlighting a series of business cases exemplifying the benefits of intelligent agents. Β© 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Competitive intelligence professionals know how to collect data. What I have found we struggle with is knowing what data we should be collecting. While data has become virtually a boundless commodity, available in varied formats and locations from millions of print publications to Internet sites, tr