Applications: Monitoring of the market environment with the aim of increasing the ability to identify opportunities and threats and thus to reach the right strategic decisions.
Method: Strategic intelligence is the process of identifying and analyzing information about an organization’s environment. It is an indispensable element of the “Future Exploration” stage which should not rely solely on statistical modeling or on innovation support methods for developing solutions and analyzing scenarios of possible actions. Strategic intelligence complements these methods with valuable information about the actual actions of competitors. This information can be obtained once, for a specific project, but it is highly advisable to have it collected and processed continuously in order to maintain an organization’s capacity for the early identification of opportunities and threats. Unlike industrial espionage, strategic intelligence is based only on legally available information. Used constantly for the monitoring of an organization’s environment, it enhances the institution’s competitiveness, resilience to environmental changes, and its flexibly in adjusting strategies to dynamic changes in the environment.