Never before have organizations been able to gather more data about their competitive environment, yet the analytical and interpretive challenges of deriving useful information and subsequently integrating this into managerial decisions are trailing behind rapidly evolving digital technologies. To bridge the gap, line managers must enhance their technological awareness and appreciation, and help to bridge organizational chasm with the technical community of CI professionals. The selected themes of this year’s ECIS conference are set to reflect issues involved in the rapidly evolving technologies with the organizational challenges in linking competitive intelligence to managerial decision making:

Papers should fall within any of the following topics:                    

1. Data Analytics - Harvesting Insights from Large Data Pools

2. Strategic Analytics as a Value Creator into Products

3. Organization of Competitive Intelligence

4. The Economics of Intelligence

5. Double Loop Learning with Online Websites and Apps

6. The Impact of Human Bias in Competitive Intelligence

7. Using Competitive Intelligence for Innovation

8. Competitive Intelligence and Market Communication

9. PhD students’ research projects (Various Themes)