If originally the concept of intelligence Economics is not specifically French (the British long before we speak of " business intelligence, business intelligence, and the U.S." competitive intelligence, competitive intelligence) is the Martre report in 1994 will launch the concept in France and clarify the concept. In his review, 16 years later, one wonders if the imperfections of the definition adopted by the Working Group who participated in drafting the report, which reflects the will to reach a consensus despite some differences, are not a kind of original sin, the consequences detrimental to the harmonious development of the function.
The report defines indeed " economic intelligence as a set of coordinated research, treatment and distribution [economic actors] useful information", " for of its operations .
protection does not appear in the definition itself, but so all-in-fact Annex stating that "these actions [the coordinated research, treatment and distribution of useful information] are conducted legally and with full guarantees of protection necessary for the preservation of . The influence does not appear. However, the report then states that the concept of intelligence implies " exceeding the partial shares designated by the names of documentation, monitoring, protection of heritage competitive influence .
Protection and influence conditions of realization of the action, not logically appear in the definition strict sense of the function, but are curiously named as true specific activities of the intelligence, even if they are only "partial". This amazing shortcut mix reality conditions involved (legality and safety) of an activity (business intelligence) with the activity itself. It also confuses a constraint applicable to the activity in question (the legality) with an implied warranty given to him (the security). This shortcut is to double our opinion doubly vicious because it carries with him all the excesses that plague in France the concept of intelligence economy since its inception.
Featuring effect in the same bag these two concepts are interrelated particularly the legality and protection, and forgetting the quality of simple condition to ensure the second to be confused with the action itself, it completely blurs the quality condition in respect of the first. The condition is so essential to due process and disappears before a safety requirement which makes the protection action of intelligence in itself. It will also eventually become one of the three pillars of the discipline with the use of information useful (research, processing and distribution) that if one believes the original definition is sufficient to characterize the activity of intelligence, and influence that is grafted on the disparate device without one really knows why.
Exit then the legality that should go without saying, but it becomes necessary to remember every moment as the excesses seem easy or at least tempting. By dint of explaining, not without reason, but with great lightness of great ambiguity, it is necessary to know the methods of thugs to better it protect, discipline has created an image that sulfur using a anglicism largely connoted by the practices of major espionage "agency" does not help to alleviate. The mixture of the notions of legality and protection, and the confusion between stress action, guaranteed to provide him and the action itself, which weaken the concept of obscuring the contours are probably the source of many interpretation difficulties it encounters.
Thus, the concept of economic intelligence, moving away slowly from the operation of information useful (research, processing and distribution) which bases its function, dissolves slowly in the strategic concept developed to blend in all respects with the strategic function (you can read useful on this subject an article published some years ago already "Should we leave economic intelligence to dissolve in the strategic management? " Agoravox, December 13, 2007).
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