This paper aims to provide a practical methodology for using web mining to gather strategic business intelligence. It first describes some concepts relating to web mining and reports some exploratory findings on how web mining for strategic intelligence is actually used in South African organizations. The paper then suggests some practical steps for organizations wishing to establish their own ...

Leaders have an essential role in facilitating strategic change within organizations. As resistance to change is primarily an emotional reaction to change, the study of emotions and the emotional intelligence of the leader is of growing interest in modern organizations. From a strategic perspective, the process of how the emotional intelligence of a leader contributes to competitive advantage f...

Business Intelligence (BI) promises a range of technologies for using information to ensure compliance to strategic and tactical objectives, as well as government laws and regulations. These technologies can be used in conjunction with conceptual models of business objectives, processes and situations (aka business schemas) to drive strategic decision-making about opportunities and threats etc....

Emotional intelligence (EI) relates to one's ability to recognize and understand emotional information and then, to use it for planning and self-management. Given evidence of abnormalities of emotional processing in impulsively aggressive individuals, we hypothesized that EI would be reduced in subjects with Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED: n = 43) compared with healthy (n = 44) and psychi...

The chances of firms achieving, or being subjected to, strategic surprise have escalated with the growth of internetworking technologies and the opportunities these afford for various forms of information warfare (IW) and net terrorism. The more a business depends on sophisticated information systems, the greater its vulnerability to stealth attack. Defensive IW will soon become a necessary cos...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the institutional economics of co-operation and the political economy of trust. It is reviewed the transactions costs, the principal-agent theory, market power, increasing-returns theory and value creation, strategic management, competitive forces, resource-based theory, organizational knowledge and learning, strategic choice theory and the collective efficie...

This article provides some basic assistance to entrepreneurs involved in artificial intelligence, offering a synthesis of standard business-planning and capital-raising practices. Three main areas are discussed: (1) developing a corporate strategy, (2) developing a business plan that works, and (3) approaching sources of capital. THE AI MAGAZINE August, 1986 111 AI Magazine Volume 7 Number 3 (1...