Competitive Intelligence Contribution to Gathering Knowledge of Nation
In view of the fact that competitiveness of nations postulates the ability of nation to assure the best conditions to develop businesses and to enhance nation well being, it means that it is need to gather effort of nation to obtain good results, as well as to gather nation knowledge to elaborate goals and objectives of nation’s competitiveness development. This paper brings to attention some aspects regarding how to organize a national body to summaries nation’s knowledge necessary to formulate targets to enhance nation competitiveness. A part of this knowledge should be the contribution of competitive intelligence systems organized at national level at the government public institution sustaining decision makers with actionable intelligence about foreign environment and competitors. In this respect, paper offer a general view about who is charged at national level to gather nation knowledge, how is possible to have the best results collecting knowledge and intelligence. Finally, paper propose a methodology to analyses competitive position of nation and information flow in rational decision making to elaborate competitiveness strategy and to implement policies at sector level. Starting with cross transverse analyses in field of nation’s competitiveness theory and practice in some countries found that valuing the advantages gained using the knowledge gathered institutionally by nation efforts and implying system and instrument of competitive intelligence means understanding the potential of knowledge as factor of production and as the most important element of a rational decision making. Presenting some nation’s model organizing own competitiveness coordination, paper shows that the role of state as initiator is decisive. By actionable intelligence delivered to national competitiveness strategy makers, the role of the government’s public institution which has own competitive intelligence system is to facilitate the knowledge creation necessary to finalize
