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Competitors, Intelligence, and Big Data
G. Scott Erickson and Helen N. Rothberg
INTRODUCTION
e advent of the big data era has brought a lot of dierent denitions and
perspectives. Big data, cloud computing, business intelligence, and other
concepts seeping into regular usage can mean dierent things to dierent
people. is is especially true to those of us who have been working in
related areas such as knowledge management and competitive intelligence
for a number of years. And then there is the challenge of determining
what the changes mean to practices related to knowledge development
and knowledge protection.
Our milieu is the intersect ...