This articles analyzes the growth and practice of intellectual capital and competitive intelligence, two industry practices that have received increasing attention over the last decade. Related in their conceptual structure, the two fields also interact in terms of the benefits and costs of...

Three major trends have come together raising the stakes for firms seeing to compete in the new economy. First, knowledge management poses the idea that every organization holds knowledge in the minds of its personnel that can be identified, collected and managed for competitive advantage....