The Role of Competitive Intelligence in the Development Stage of Strategic Management in History

摘要

The main roles of the competitive intelligence(CI) in the different development stage of strategic management are advanced in the paper: in the fiscal control stage, the main role of CI is to support company s fiscal management by information and intelligence; in the stage of long term strategic planning, CI is mainly used as the basis of the environment analysis; in the stage of flexible response strategy, CI is the daily work of drawing up and implementing this strategy; in the stage of the change and innovation of management, CI is regarded as an important component factor of the resources and core competence of company. This thesis also puts forward the future trends of CI based on the strategic management.