Competitive intelligence is a new discipline in China, where, despite a booming economy, many aspects of competitive business remain novel. The authors provide a look into how a large, state-owned enterprise applied CI to adapt to the presence of market competition, providing insight into how Chinese companies appraise the competitive strength of competitors and use this information to create competitive strategies, as well as the emerging role of university academics as business consdtants. o 1997 John Wdey gc Sons, Inc.Competitive intelligence (CI) is a fiesh concept in China, where it is viewed as a new research area of information science that can serve China's development of a market economy (Li, 1994:132-137). In China, more people are paying attention to the importance of information gathering and analysis in business. As a part of a project titled The Study ofthe Supporting Mechanism of Competitive Intelligence to Business Competitive Decision, which is sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation, we helped a firm to study the competitive situation of its competitors and itself, and to use this information to make competitive decisions.
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