scholarly journals EDITORIAL NOTE VOL 2, NO 2 (2012)

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Søilen
Keyword(s):  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Continuous Evaluation ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Intelligence Studies ◽  
To Come ◽  
Procurement Contracts ◽  
Improve Supply Chain

The third issue of JISIB marks the journal’s first anniversary. Again we are delighted to welcome contributions by academics from all over the world, from so many different backgrounds. We also delighted to have contributions from a large number of female authors. This together shows, we believe, that the field of intelligence studies has a truly global reach.Most contributions continue to come from best papers from a number of conferences related to Intelligence Studies. For the articles in this issue we would like to thank in particular our American Editor, Prof. G. Scott Erickson. Four out of six articles this time come from ECKM 2012, which was held 6-7 September in Cartagena, Spain. Track co-chairs for the Mini Track on Competitive Intelligence and KM was G. Scott Erickson, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY and Helen N. Rothberg, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York.The article by Brigitte Gay shows how graphs can be used to illustrate and understand relations between organizations and companies. It illustrates well the degree to which the field of Competitive Intelligence relies heavily today on the development of new software. The article by Scott Ericson and Helen Rothberg clarifies much around the importance of knowledge assets and the study of Knowledge Management with that of Competitive Intelligence. Few have done more to understand this area than these two authors. Their findings have also been published in a new book this year, “Intelligence in action” (Palgrave Macmillan). The contribution by Jihene Chebbi Ghannay and Zeineb Ben Ammar Mamlouk Zeineb is a literature review that shows the same interdependence between CI and KM. The article by Olivier Mamavi shows what you can do with graphs to identify and understand networks for problems containing big data, in this case companies who have obtained French procurement contracts. The article by Gabriela López, Steve Eldridge, Salomón Montejano and Patricia Silva shows how to improve supply chain knowledge by a continuous evaluation and contextualization of a company’s own practices.  The last article by Mattias Nyblom, Jenny Behrami, Tung Nikkilä and Klaus Solberg Søilen is an investigation into what kind of Business Intelligence software is used by SMEs, why, and how companies evaluate their systems. As such its aim is to narrow a gap between theory and practice.On behalf of the Editorial Board,Sincerely Yours,Dr. Klaus Solberg Søilen

scholarly journals EDITORIAL NOTE VOL 2, NO 3 (2012)

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Søilen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Intelligence Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
A Company

JISIB has entered into an electronic licensing relationship with EBSCO Publishing. It has also been selected to appear in EBSCO’s Business Source Complete database, which according to the company publishes “Superior Academic Journals (…) with premium content of peer-reviewed, business related journals. “ JISIB now also fulfills the official criteria of Thomson Reuters to be cited in their ISI Web of Knowledge database. As such it has applied to be included in the database. However, by experience with other journals, we know this process can still take considerable time. After having had the journal’s first annual meeting for editors in December we would like to thank the old board members who are leaving and welcome the new ones. Most contributions continue to come from best papers from a number of conferences related to Intelligence Studies. Two out of five articles come from ECKM 2012, which was held 6-7 September in Cartagena, Spain. Track co-chairs for the Mini Track on Competitive Intelligence and KM was G. Scott Erickson, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY and Helen N. Rothberg, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Two other articles are revised versions of papers presented at ECIS, but not previously published in journals. The article by Helen N. Rothberg and G. Scott Ericksonis about how to benchmark competitive intelligence activities. The paper identifies and measures different circumstances in which knowledge development and knowledge protection can have greater or lesser importance for a company.  The authors believe that the results will start to move scholarly work in the field into the new areas of macro studies and strategic choice. The article by Stéphan Goria is on board wargames for businesses. It also gives a broad background of this field of study with the history of wargames and numerous historical examples. Moreover Goria shows the benefits with wargames by creating a new game and testing it for a market situation which found place in France between Nintendo and Sony. The article by Yasmina Amara, Klaus Solberg Søilen and Dirk Vriens proposes a way to evaluate business intelligence software by introducing a new model, the SSAV model. The article by Marisela Rodriguez Salvador and Luis Francisco Salinas Casanova applies a Competitive Intelligence model to analyze Thermoplastics Elastomers (TE), a class of polymers, for a company in Mexico. The model shows numerous novel findings with important implications for the company. Finally, the article by Klaus Solberg Søilen and Anders Hasslinger show how vendors of Business Intelligence software try to differentiate themselves in this market.

scholarly journals Editorial note 2013 Vol 3 No 2

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Söilen
Keyword(s):  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Information Technology Adoption ◽  
Strategic Intelligence ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Retail Banks ◽  
A Current

The sixth issue of JISIB marks the journal’s second anniversary. Again we are delighted to welcome contributions by academics from so many different countries, with so many different backgrounds. The academic contributions of our female authors continue to show also in this issue. If this issue should have one common theme it would be related to Brazil. It is not a special issue on Brazil, but we saw the possibility to include three articles which relates to the experience of competitive intelligence in this country. However, the first article by Sheila Wright, Christophe Bisson, and Alistair Duffy entitled “Competitive Intelligence and Information Technology Adoption of SMEs in Turkey: Diagnosing Current Performance and Identifying Barriers“ is on another topic and deals with SMEs need to improve intelligence-based output to decision-makers. Based on empirical findings the aim has been to identify and classify CI behaviour and attitudes of SMEs in Turkey.The second article by A.S.A. du Toit is entitled “Comparative Study of Competitive Intelligence Practices between Two Retail Banks in Brazil and South Africa” , where it is concluded that respondents in the bank in Brazil cope better with changes in the external environment.The next article by Zhanna Abzaltynova and Janice Williams entitled “Developments in Business Intelligence Software” is an evaluation of BI vendors and software with extensive rankings.The article by Francisco Carlos Paletta entitled “Brazil - Evolutions in CI and some aspects of a current scenario”, is a summary of research done on the introduction of competitive intelligence in Brazil. The article also gives a brief idea about its current status.In the opinion section we have included an article by Francisco Carlos Paletta and Nilson Dias Vieira Junior entitled “ICT Lifecycle and its Major Role in The Development of Strategic Intelligence”. It is an evaluation of the existing ICT framework for competitive intelligence in Brazil.As always we would first of all like to thank the authors for their contributions to this issue of JISIB.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL NOTE VOL 3, NO 1 (2013)

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Søilen
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Plant Industry ◽  
Key Success Factors ◽  
Intelligence Studies

We are pleased to offer another series of research articles within the area of intelligence studies in business. The articles represent as always a number of different approaches and problems. The article by Fatti and du Toit on competitive intelligence in the South African pharmaceutical industry confirms the idea that CI by now is a well-established field of interest in companies. The article goes on to propose a series of suggestions for how to improve the CI function for these companies. The article by Jenster and Solberg Søilen is a quantitative paper on the correlation between strategic planning and company performance for Chinese companies. The research confirms that the CI function is more important for company performance than the other variables and functions that were measured. The article by Momeni and Mehrafzoon identifies a number of key success factors for the CI function in the power plant industry in Iran. Seven factors are identified in the study. The article by Solberg Søilen is an overview of articles published in the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management and Competitive. The article shows where articles are from, what topics are most popular, what background authors have and to what extent they define future research. The article by Hoppe is about the methodological direction of intelligence studies, and is placed in the opinion section. By using Burk’s pentad the author brings a series of new perspectives to intelligence studies in general. We hope you will enjoy these quite different contributions.  On behalf of the Editorial Board, Sincerely Yours, Dr. Klaus Solberg Søilen

scholarly journals The width and scope of intelligence studies in business

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Soilen
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Monitoring Process ◽  
Intelligence Studies ◽  
Simple Evaluation

If the last issue of JISIB was a special issue where the discipline was reflecting on itself, then this issues shows some of the width and scope of the field. The conceptual article by Nienaber and Sewdass presents a relatively new concept of workforce intelligence, and links it to competitive advantage by way of predictive analytics. The article by Solberg Søilen is an attempt to lay out a broad scientific agenda for the area of intelligence studies in business.Empirical findings come from a survey, but in the discussion the author argues for why the study should define itself as much broader than what the survey data implies, breaking out of the current dominating scientific paradigm. The article by Fourati-Jamoussi and Niamba is an updated evaluation of business intelligence tools, a frequently reoccurring topic. However, this time it is not a simple evaluation of existing software, but an evaluation by users to helpdesigners of business intelligence tools get the best efficiency out of a monitoring process. The article by Calof is an evaluation of government sponsored competitive intelligence for regional and sectoral economic development in Canada. The article concludes that it is possible tocalculate positive economic impacts from these activities. Rodríguez Salvador and Hernandez de Menéndez come back to a field that has become a specialty for Rodríguez Salvador: scientific and industrial intelligence based on scientometric patent analysis. This time she looks at bio-additive manufacturing using advanced data mining software and interviews with experts.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL NOTE VOL 5, NO 1 (2015)

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Søilen
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
It Management ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Equipment Manufacturer ◽  
Fruitful Cooperation ◽  
Data Networking

In this issue of JISIB we bring you articles from two different conferences held this spring. The first was the 7th International Competitive Intelligence (ICI) conference held in Strasburg 25-26th March.  The second was the IT Management Annual (AIM) conference held in Rabat May 20-22. The journal would like to thank the organizers of these conferences for a fruitful cooperation, where JISIB editors have served as reviewers of scientific track papers and best paper awards.To keep up with the journals new aim to publish case studies Calof et al. present the story of Nortel, a Canadian telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturer which went bankrupt in 2009.As always we would first of all like to thank the authors for their contributions to this issue of JISIB.On behalf of the Editorial Board,

scholarly journals Why you should be interested in intelligence studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Soilen
Keyword(s):  
Business Intelligence ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
New Model ◽  
Market Intelligence ◽  
Technical Intelligence ◽  
Intelligence Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Competitor Intelligence

In this issue most articles are reflections (bibliometrics, scientometrics) on what has been done in intelligence studies in business (IS) and more particularly in competitive intelligence (CI) and business intelligence (BI), so some reflections and analysis on the subject proper seems to be appropriate for thesenotes. Almost all articles in IS (CI, competitor intelligence, market intelligence (MI), BI, and competitive technical intelligence (CTI)) are empirical contributions that show how to work more effectively with need to know information in business. Authors submit empirical articles that solve new and specific problems.It can be a new method, the introduction of a new model or the application of some new technology.

scholarly journals Editorial Notes VOL 5, No 2 (2015)

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Søilen
Keyword(s):  
Review Process ◽  
Rejection Rate ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
The World ◽  
Intelligence Studies

EDITORIAL NOTE VOL 5, NO 2 (2015)It is always a pleasure to realize, at the time of writing this editorial note, that the articles published by JISIB come from many parts of the world and from many industries. This is not intentionally - even though we strive for diversity - as we do not know what articles actually make it through the review process for each issue. Our rejection rate is now more than 80%. Some see that as a sign of quality.  In this issue of JISIB we publish three articles on Intelligence Studies presented at the ECKM 2015 conference. There is also an article by Oubrich et al. presented at the AIM 2015 conference. In addition ASA du Toit gives an updated analysis of the Intelligence Studies field.As always we would first of all like to thank the authors for their contributions to this issue of JISIB.On behalf of the Editorial Board, Sincerely Yours,

scholarly journals EDITORIAL NOTE VOL 3, NO 3 (2013)

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Søilen
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Access To Data

The journal continues to draw mainly on articles presented at academic conferences on topics related to competitive intelligence. In 2013 SCIP organized a first conference in South Africa, under the leadership of ASA du Toit, the journal’s editor for Africa.The first article by Agostino et al. entitled “Cloud solution in Business Intelligence for SMEs –vendor and customer perspectives“ identifies key success factor for SMEs of cloud based Business Intelligence products. Most important KSFs identified in this study were the level of software functionalities, the ubiquitous access to data, responsive answers to customer support requests, handling large amounts of data and implementation cost.  The study also shows that SMEs prefer industry tailored software, monthly or quarterly billings, and contact by email or phone for service.The second article by Helen N. Rothberg and G. Scott Erickson entitled “Intelligence in the Oil Patch: Knowledge Management and Competitive Intelligence Insights” argue with extensive empirical data and examples from oil-based industries that practitioners are one step ahead of academia in the sense that many organizations have a connection between their knowledge management and competitive intelligence functions. While the natural inclination of most working in the fields of KM and CI is that more is always better, both theory and practice suggest that sometimes a more measured approach may be better, the authors conclude. The third article by Esteves and Curto entitled “A Risk and Benefits Behavioral Model to Assess Intentions to Adopt Big Data” develops a model that predicts the intention to adopt Big Data technologies. The article by Salvador and Casanoa entitled “Applying Competitive Intelligence: The Case of Thermoplastics Elastomers” provides a practical case of the Competitive Intelligence Methodology applied to the Thermoplastics Elastomers Industry, specifically within the Styrenic Block Copolymers category. The authors identify a solution for a Mexican Company to support their decision-making process. The last article by Kabir and Carayannis entitled “Big Data, Tacit Knowledge and Organizational Competitiveness” show how big data is a source of firm’s competitive advantage.As always we would first of all like to thank the authors for their contributions to this issue of JISIB.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL NOTE VOL 5, NO 3 (2015)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Söilen
Keyword(s):  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Special Issue

This is a special issue of JISIB where the discipline is allowed to reflect on itself. Included are three articles which aims to take a new critical look at the discipline of Competitive Intelligence and its equivalents in other cultures. Degerstedt rethinks the whole discipline of CI and IS seen from a larger sociological and technical perspective which in many ways resembles ideas of Social Intelligence introduced by Stevan Dedijer. Solberg Søilen bases his reflections about the scientific standing of intelligence in business around a survey with two questions: What is unique for CI and IS as disciplines and what analyses are unique for Ci and IS? The article by Hoppe was presented at the ECIS conference in Stockholm in 2009 and submitted to the new journal of JISIB in 2011.As always we would first of all like to thank the authors for their contributions to this issue of JISIB.On behalf of the Editorial Board,

scholarly journals A deeper look at the collective intelligence phenomenon

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Söilen
Keyword(s):  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Kano Model ◽  
Intelligence Studies ◽  
Search Data ◽  
Google Search

For the upcoming conference on Intelligence Studies at ICI 2020 in Bad Nauheim, Germany the focus of this issue of JISIB is on collective intelligence and foresight. The first two papers by Søilen and Almedia and Lesca deal with collective intelligence from an intelligence studies perspective. It may be said that the Internet itself is a gigantic collective intelligence effort, the largest in human history. Open source is a prerequisite for this system to work for everyone. The article by Černý et al. is on open source. All other contributions are on the connection between the Internet, software and intelligence. This issue consists of seven articles to compensate for two articles that were taken out by editors in the last issue. The first article by Søilen entitled “Making sense of the collective intelligence field: a review” is a historical review of the field of collective intelligence. The paper shows how collective intelligence is an interdisciplinary field and argues there is a flaw in the notion of “wisdom of crowds”. Collective intelligence can be understood in terms of social systems theory and as such this approach has been fruitful for the social sciences, although so far not very popular. It also bares relevance for the study of business and economics. The second article by Almeida and Lesca is entitled “Collective intelligence process to interpret weak signals and early warnings”. Early warning and the detection of weak signals is a vital topic for any intelligence organization. Two aspects are discussed in the paper, the importance of new technology and collective sense making or interpretation The third article by Shaikh and Singhal entitled “Study on the various intellectual property management strategies used and implemented by ICT firms for business intelligence” deals with intellectual property rights and patenting strategies. The authors identify a number of defensive and offensive IP strategies applied to ICT companies. The results have a bearing on patent acquisitions. The fourth article by Lamrhari et al. is entitled “Web intelligence for understanding customer satisfaction: application of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and the Kano model”. Customer satisfaction today is mostly measured with data from the internet, using different business intelligence techniques. The Kano model is still valuablei,ii, but the way we gather information to assess the different levels in the model has changed. The authors use Latent Dirichlet Allocation to analyze the voice of customer (VOC) in online reviews. They suggest that BI techniques and a fuzzy-Kano model can enable companies to better understand their customers’ online reviews. The fifth article by Nahili et al. is entitled “A new corpus-based convolutional neutral network for big data text analysis”. Companies need efficient ways to analyze everything that is said about them on the internet (reviews, comments). The paper suggests a convolutional neural network (CNN) as it has been successfully used for text classification. IMDB movie reviews and Reuters datasets were used for the experiment. The sixth article by Černý et al. is entitled “Using open data and google search data for competitive intelligence analysis”. Taking the Czech antidepressant market as an example, the authors show how competitive intelligence can be obtained using Google Search data, Google Trend and other OSINT sources. The seventh article by Dadkhah et al. is entitled “The potential of business intelligence tools for expert findings”. The paper suggests a way for researchers to find experts using business intelligence tools. The same method may also be used by any business or person looking for experts on a specific topic. As always, we would above all like to thank the authors for their contributions to this issue of JISIB. Thanks to Dr. Allison Perrigo for reviewing English grammar and helping with layout design for all articles and to the Swedish Research Council for continuous financial support. We hope to see you all at the ICI 2020 on the 16-17 March, 2020. The deadline for the two-page abstract submission is March 1st, 2020.

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