How a Comparative View and Mutual Study of National Strategic Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence Can Benefit Each Other

National strategic intelligence and competitive intelligence seem to be two different disciplines. Research has focused on the two fields—national strategic intelligence and competitive intelligence—separately, without any attempt to apply lessons and relevant explanations from one field to the other. Looking deeply into these two fields reveals, however, that they have a lot in common. As the methodology of intelligence in both governments and in business has hit a glass ceiling, based on the gaps between expectation to execution in both fields, there is a need to recognize what can be done to improve these practices in both areas. One of the options that has emerged from comparing intelligence performance in both fields is the possibility of applying the accumulated experience in the business field to improve the national one, and vice versa. In both government strategic intelligence and in competitive intelligence, the intelligence discipline is a method of the decision-support system. The use of an objective approach is an important way of assisting chief executives in both fields to avoid mistakes during the process of deciding what to do next.