COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGY INTELLIGENCE

Competitive Technology Intelligence (CTI) is the process focused on monitoring the competitive and technological environment of an organization (company, university, entity…) for the purpose of better decision making by high and middle level executives in the areas of marketing, product design, research and development (R&D), which can be used from investment tactics to long-term business strategies. CTI is carried out in organizations of all sizes through a continuous and systematic process that implies legal and ethical collection of information, analysis, and production of actionable results for strategic planning process and controlled diffusion of main findings.

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What does a Competitive Intelligence professional do?

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Related Associations

Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals

The Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) is a global nonprofit membership organization for everyone involved in creating and managing business knowledge. Its mission is to enhance the skills of knowledge professionals in order to help their companies achieve and maintain a competitive advantage.

Specifically, SCIP provides education and networking opportunities for business professionals working in the rapidly growing field of competitive intelligence (the legal and ethical collection and analysis of information regarding the capabilities, vulnerabilities, and intentions of business competitors). Many SCIP members have backgrounds in market research, strategic analysis, or science and technology.

Established in 1986, today SCIP has over 50 chapters around the world, with individual members in more than 50 nations. In addition, SCIP has alliance partnerships with independent affiliate organizations in many countries.

Asociación Latino-Iberoamericana de Gestión Tecnológica

The Asociación Latino-Iberoamericana de Gestion Tecnologica (ALTEC) is a non-lucrative international private institution founded in 1984 with the goal of linking natural and judicial active people in the study and development of Technology Management, to create cooperative activities in this area.

ALTEC is conformed by a significant group of professionals from the region, interested in Technology Management, including researchers, university professors, business people, government specialists, experts in financial and cooperative agencies and professionals working in private consulting firms.The Board of Directors contains 6 members of different countries, and the presidency for the 2001-2003 period is located in the University of Sao Paolo, Brazil.

ALTEC's principal mission is to promote socioeconomical development in the Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese area through the continuous perfection of Technology Management.

Asociación Mexicana de Directivos de Investigación Aplicada y Desarrollo Tecnológico

The Mexican Association of Directors in Applied Research and Technology Development (ADIAT) is a non lucrative civil association founded in 1989 whose Founding President was Ing. Guillermo Fernández de la Garza, who at the same time was the Executive Director of the Electrical Research Institute.

At the beginning, the ADIAT was focused in projects to transmit up to date Technology Management information to their partners, however in the present, the ADIAT also focuses on special projects that link business people in diverse productive sectors with the Applied Research and Technology Development centers. The ADIAT also participates in the national policy making process that promotes technology development in Mexican firms and in general, to the creation of a business culture that incorporate the innovation concept in their philosophy.