Publications

As the only non-profit professional association for strategic and competitive intelligence professionals, SCIP produces several publications to advance the knowledge of our membership and the standing of the profession. Our current titles include Competitive Intelligence and scip.insight.

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE

Our flagship title, Competitive Intelligence, is the only subscription publication focused solely on strategic and competitive intelligence. Produced continuously since 1998, its content covers all aspects of intelligence practice, including (but not limited to):

Acquisition, management, and distribution of competitive information
Selection and application of analytical techniques
Growth and focus of the intelligence function on key decision-makers' requirements
Advances in specialized intelligence methods: events, science/technology, financial, etc.
Development and application of best-in-class practices
Case studies of intelligence functions and processes
Advanced analytical techniques from government and academia

The majority of article authors are practitioners working in a corporate environment. These authors report on the best practices and new developments originating in corporations, governments, and universities. Articles are original work, not published elsewhere. We do not accept articles that primarily promote services or products.

We work with the author in a collaborative environment to provide readers a top-quality product. Article submissions are extensively reviewed by a subject-matter expert for content, relevance, and uniqueness, then comprehensively edited for continuity and style. Click here to view current SCIP author guidelines.

Access to current issues of Competitive Intelligence and the complete back file of articles are included in your SCIP membership. Click here to view the abstracts of individual issue content.

SCIP.INSIGHT

Our monthly e-bulletin, scip.insight provides timely and focused articles on current SCIP activities and new developments related to strategic and competitive intelligence. Designed to keep you up-to-date on recent thoughts and opinions of competitive intelligence experts, scip.insight also highlights current SCIP activities such as chapter meetings, seminars and conferences.

Each issue also features past Competitive Intelligence articles still relevant to your intelligence interests. Click here to see recent issues.

Recent Articles

Competitive Intelligence Magazine
July/September 2012

July/September 2012 issue
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Positioning for Growth in Emerging Markets
David Kalinowski. A successful entrance into an emerging market, one that produces positive, sustainable, long-term results, depends most on one critical driver: local strategic intelligence. This also reaffirms the essential role of building a cross-functional team to spot new market considerations, identify pressure points, recognize game-changers, optimize resource allocation, maximize assets, and extend product life cycles.

SCIP.online
November 17, 2009

There are no articles associated with this issue.

JCIM (Journal)
March 1, 2008

p. 01-02: Co-Editors' Letter, Vol. 04 No. 03
Roberta Brody, Queens College of the City University of New York, USA
Sheila Wright, De Montfort University, UK
This issue of the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management contains four peer-reviewed articles. The first of these articles, “Issues in Defining Competitive Intelligence: An Exploration” considers how CI is currently defined in the literature and who defines the term. James W. Hesford’s “An Empirical Investigation of Accounting Information Use in Competitive Intelligence” presents a study in the use of competitors’ accounting information by individuals engaged in competitive intelligence. “Competitive Intelligence as a Driver of Co-evolution within an Organization Population” by Mirva Peltoniemi and Elisa Vuori explores what might be the interactive and reactive consequences of CI activities within a population of competing organizations. Finally, “The Emergence and Uniqueness of Competitive Intelligence in France” by Jamie Smith and Leila Kossou considers French approaches to Competitive Intelligence.

p. 03-16: Issues in Defining Competitive Intelligence: An Exploration, Vol. 04 No. 03
Roberta Brody, Queens College, City University of New York, USA
This article begins by considering how some major organizations in North America address the definition of the term "competitive intelligence." That is to say, it attempts to set this exploration in the current contexts in which the term is used and defined. It attempts a synchronic exploration of current definitions and descriptions of CI by considering competitive intelligence as a term used in a body of documents and in document surrogates as represented by assigned indexing terms or controlled vocabulary metadata. Results suggest that there is not a definite description of the field. Descriptions and definitions were mostly process oriented but some defined CI in terms of products and final deliverables.

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