C-CIS: A Chinese Competitive Intelligence System Based on the Internet

Abstract

Faced with an era of knowledge-based economy, more and more enterprisers realize the importance of competitive intelligence (CI), which aims at monitoring a firm's competition environment to obtain information relevant to its decision-making process. In this paper, we propose and implement a Chinese competitive intelligence system based on the Internet, which is called C-CIS. It performs CI cycles (information customization, information acquisition, information refining, and information publishing) on the Web. The initial user study of prototype system demonstrates its high harvest of relevant information, robustness of acquisition, and friendliness of user interface. Therefore, the C-CIS architecture proposed herein is desirable.