Tracking meaningful insights about companies’ exposures to high risk of failure in competitive markets, intelligence studies in business should listen to practitioners’ signals and act in providing decision making support to systematic scanning for valuable information. In order to gain robustness in confronting unexpected events in real markets, companies should adopt an unstructured learning perspective with maturity assessment tools, while purposely pooling strategic intelligence (SI) skills. By bridging organizational maturity modeling with a future orientation stream of literature and intelligence studies in business, this conceptual research aims to highlight a genuine Strategic Intelligence Capability Maturity Model (SI CMM), capable of purposely addressing the challenge of aligning detective and anticipatory organizational capabilities. The conceptual model highlights the degree of preparedness of four SI profiles behaviors (intelligence provider, vigilant learner, opportunity captor and opportunity defender – previously developed by the authors) against seven levels of maturity. The SI CMM framework outlines both conditioned scanning capabilities (the first five SI readiness levels) and enablers to anticipate future market trends (the last two SI readiness levels). The novel approach of the strategic intelligence readiness framework supplies companies with a valuable organizational learning tool to close the skills gap through an opportunity provider profile. The main features lie in coordination and sharing SI common knowledge to enhance preparedness in forward-looking competitive pressures. The conceptual framework invites academia and the community of intelligence experts in business to evaluate the relevance of the new conceptualization, clarity of constructs and complementary nature of correlation and causation with the proposed SI CMM model

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通过战略情报成熟度模型增强对市场挑战的竞争响应

商业情报研究要跟踪有关公司在竞争激烈的市场中面临高失败风险的有意义的见解，因此应听取从业人员的信号，并为系统扫描有价值的信息提供决策支持。为了在面对实际市场中的意外事件时获得稳健性，公司应采用具有成熟度评估工具的非结构化学习视角，同时有目的地合并战略情报（SI）技能。通过将组织成熟度模型与未来的商业文献和情报研究方向相结合，这项概念性研究旨在强调真正的战略情报能力成熟度模型（SI CMM），能够有目的地应对将侦探性和预期性组织能力相统一的挑战。概念模型强调了针对七个成熟度的四种SI配置文件行为（智能提供者，警惕的学习者，机会俘获者和机会捍卫者–由作者先前开发）的准备程度。SI CMM框架概述了条件扫描功能（前五个SI就绪级别）和使能因素，以预测未来的市场趋势（后两个SI就绪级别）。战略情报准备框架的新颖方法为公司提供了宝贵的组织学习工具，可通过机会提供者资料来弥补技能差距。主要特征在于协调和共享SI常识，以增强对前瞻性竞争压力的防范能力。