Building the Competitive Intelligence Knowledge: Processes and activities in a Corporate organization

This paper discusses the process of building and developing comprehensive tools, techniques, support systems, and better methods of harnessing the competitive intelligence knowledge processes. The author stresses the need for building sophisticated methodological competitive intelligence knowledge acquisition, systematic collection of competitive intelligence knowledge from various sources for critical analysis, process, organization, synthesis, assessment, screening, filtering and interpretation of competitive intelligence knowledge. The paper goes on to highlight the skills a competencies of competitive intelligence professionals in the management of a Competitive Intelligence Knowledge System (CIKS) and outlines the facets and sub-facets of ClKS. The tools, techniques, and methods are briefly and concisely presented. This paper also lists the objectives of competitive intelligence knowledge and the role of competitive intelligence professional