to the “skills, technologies, applications, and practices used to support decision making” (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence). On the basis of a survey of 1,400 CEOs, the Gartner Group projected BI revenue to reach $3 billion in 2009.1 Through BI initiatives, businesses are gaining insights from the growing volumes of transaction, product, inventory, customer, competitor, and...

Business Intelligence (BI) has emerged as one of software solutions that have maximum allocated investments by many organizations for the year 2005. Among various forms and application-based business intelligence, market intelligence (MI) is viewed as a crucial factor for a company to succeed both operationally and strategically in today’s’ competitive environment. Capturing market intelligence...

INTRODUCTION At the modern age, to acquire knowledge and experience, the individuals with their own specific culture have to enter contexts with cultural diversity, adapt to different cultures and have social interactions to be able to have effective inter-cultural relationships.To have such intercultural associations and satisfy individual needs in the society, cultural intelligence and social...

This study is part of a programmatic research effort into the determinants of self-assessed abilities. It examined cross-cultural differences in beliefs about intelligence and self- and other-estimated intelligence in two countries at extreme ends of the European continent. In all, 172 British and 272 Turkish students completed a three-part questionnaire where they estimated their parents', par...

now days, competitive power, according to the company’s survival. competitiveintelligence as a strategic management tool and one of the fastest growing areas of thebusiness world is one. the purpose of the present studies, competitive intelligence andinvestigate its impact on managers are thinking strategically. first of intelligenceterminology the competitive aspects of the market, competitors...

L2 learners’ multiple intelligences (MI) profile plays a central role in theirperformance on different aspects of language learning, one of which is the use oflanguage learning strategies (LLSs). Gaining insights into the relationship betweenMI and LLSs makes L2 teachers better understand their learners’ strengths andweaknesses in the use of such strategies and lets them guide the learners bett...

As the amount of data increases, organizations need to consider how to use their information assets successfully, an organizational capability that we call information intelligence. Starting from a particular area of information management, that of using market research data, and based on our interviews with market research as well as business intelligence executives, in this paper we discuss w...

Different studies have demonstrated that culture has a basic role in intelligence tests performance. Nevertheless, the specific neuropsychological abilities used by different cultures to perform an intelligence test have never been explored. In this study, we examine the differences between Spaniards and Moroccans in the neuropsychological abilities utilized to perform the Beta III as a non-ver...

Studies of twins, family members, and adopted children point to significant genetic determinants of intelligence test scores. These and other studies also indicate that environment significantly influences intelligence test scores. Psychologists debate evolutionary and cultural explanations of gender differences in aptitudes and abilities. Environmental differences are perhaps entirely responsi...

This study examines the structure of self-estimates of intelligence (SEI) across 12 nations (Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Iran, Israel, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, UK and US). Participants rated themselves on general and specific abilities from three popular models of intelligence: Gardner's multiple intelligences, Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, and Goleman's em...