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Critical CI Success Factors: Trusted Partnerships and On-Demand Insight

Traditional competitive intelligence (CI) solutions are typically one-sided. CI firms deliver either technology tools to facilitate the intelligence process, independent research deliverables that supplement internal analysis or general consulting to guide the process. Once the solution or report is delivered, you are on your own to piece together these cookie-cutter components into an effective, integrated CI function. This patchwork approach does not work well in a global economy that continues to become increasingly unpredictable and at a time when resources are limited at best. . . .