02 juillet 2008
Is CI to be reduced to a private spying little business?
Is the globalization of trade the "economic warfare" as some people use to say in France? Is competitive intelligence a “combat system” in the service of the companies for fighting each others? Is competitive intelligence a new field for former cold warriors? Is spying the actual intelligence business? Is ethics just a way of speaking? Is OSINT nothing but a forest that hides any evil tree? Is this sort of “economic cold war” the sign of an overheating situation, and not only for the climate?
In the other hand, could CI be considered as a tool for “sustainable economic intelligence”? Should it be used for a peaceful economic development based on information and knowledge management and collective intelligence?
Finally, are those questions philosophically relevant or currently ridiculous? Anyway, it doesn’t cost anything to ask them, since it would be such a pity to cut the branch on which we sat...
