Over the past several decades, companies have spent literally trillions of dollars acquiring the latest technologies and building their internal information processing and analysis capabilities. And yet with all this expenditure of time, money, and effort, large enterprises are still caught off-guard on an almost daily basis because they fail to anticipate critical developments in their competitive environment. This shortcoming can be mitigated by adopting an intelligence mind-set. This article provides an overview of seven specifi c problems concerning the use of business intelligence in the multinational enterprise (MNE) and discusses the corresponding best practices found in professional intelligence organizations. It closes with some suggestions on implementing those best practices in the MNE.
President Diaz has taken a firm stand against extravagance and over pledging of the national credit. He favors the encouragement of banking [in Mexico] in order that the people may begin to look more to bankers than the government for aid in carrying forward new undertakings .. .The country has shown a most gratifying growth as a consequence of building the present railroads, and imports and exports have increased rapidly, but it is the belief of the President that it is safer to go slowly and surely and maintain at the highest point the good faith of the country toward all its creditors. (New York Times, 15 May, 1891)
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