Question: differentiate competitor intelligence competitive intelligence and business intelligence

title: Competitive intelligence
text: CI literature is best exemplified by the bibliographies that were published in the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals ' academic journal The Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management . Although elements of organizational intelligence collection have been a part of business for many years , the history of competitive intelligence arguably began in the U.S. in the 1970s , although the literature on the field pre-dates this time by at least several decades . In 1980 , Michael Porter published the study Competitive - Strategy : Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors which is widely viewed as the foundation of modern competitive intelligence . This has since been extended most notably by the pair of Craig Fleisher and Babette Bensoussan , who through several popular books on competitive analysis have added 48 commonly applied competitive intelligence analysis techniques to the practitioner 's tool box . In 1985 , Leonard Fuld published his best selling book dedicated to competitor intelligence . However , the institutionalization of CI as a formal activity among American corporations can be traced to 1988 , when Ben and Tamar Gilad published the first organizational model of a formal corporate CI function , which was then adopted widely by US companies . The first professional certification program ( CIP ) was created in 1996 with the establishment of The Fuld - Gilad - Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence in Cambridge , Massachusetts .