The dynamic interplay of capability strengths and weaknesses: investigating the bases of temporary competitive advantage (2010), страница 5

Экономического вклада, что малые фирмы делают все большее признание. Следовательно надежные стратегические ориентиры для малых фирм должны быть чрезвычайно ценным не только для самих фирм, но и для более широкого экономического сообщества. Конкурентный анализ модели (CAM) представляет собой новый подход к стратегическим бенчмаркинга малых фирм. В настоящее время эта модель состоит из 893 фирм, на которых проходят 320 отдельных элементов данных. Эти данные элементы используются для обеспечения отдельных отчетов фирмы так, что участие фирмы могут тестов производительности их с точки зрения мер, таких как: темпы роста, внутренние показатели деятельности, внешние показатели деятельности и стратегические приоритеты. Тестах представлены в двух основных способов: секторальные сравнения так, что фирма может тестов его производительность с другими такого же размера в том же подотрасль и перекрестных сопоставлений так, что фирма может тестов его производительность с другими такого же размера независимо от отрасли, в которой они работают. Данная статья описывает работу CAM и иллюстрирует свои операции через типичный доклад CAM.

статья 2 изPDF. A Negative View of Competitive Analysis

In 1949, Sherman Kent wrote one of the most influential books on the role and purpose of intelligence, Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy. Kent argued that intelligence analysts must not get too close to policymakers because the result would be skewed intelligence analysis. This traditionalist theory of the intelligence-policy relationship has been replaced by a more modernist view that not only does intelligence exist to serve policy, but that the relationship between the two requires closeness and continuous interaction. Originated by Willmoore Kendall, the modernist approach demands that intelligence be closely linked to existing policy matters and provide policymakers with the information they need to make informed decisions.

If intelligence exists to serve policy, then intelligence products provided to decisionmakers must contain hard-hitting, focused analysis relevant to current policy issues. The goal of intelligence agencies should be to produce reports, documents, and briefs which meet the six principles outlined by Captain William Brei — accuracy, objectivity, usability, relevance, readiness, and timeliness.1 Decisionmakers usually have little knowledge of the entire intelligence cycle, especially those functions which occur behind the scenes — collection, exploitation, processing, and interpretation/evaluation of the raw information. Their singular  exposure to intelligence derives from their receipt of finished intelligence, mostly Kevin P. Stack works on a national intelligence contract as a senior consultant for Booz Allen and Hamilton. He is also currently working on a Master of Science degree in Strategic Intelligence (MSSI) in the Post Graduate Intelligence Program at the Joint Military Intelligence College (JMIC). During Desert Shield/Storm, he served as a battalion intelligence officer.

A NEGATIVE VIEW OF COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS in the form of an analytic product. Therefore, analysis of raw information has the most impact on the decisionmaker and producing high-quality analytical product should be the highest priority for intelligence agencies. In the current U.S. intelligence community structure, four agencies produce the majority of analytical products available to strategic-level decisionmakers: the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), and the National Security Agency (NSA). Each agency maintains a robust staff of analysts who produce numerous short-term and long-term analytical products which are disseminated to senior-level decisionmakers daily. If the number one priority is to provide the best possible analysis on a wide range of topics to policymakers, then the question becomes whether or not the current structure allows intelligence agencies to produce quality analytical products indigenously.

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