Competitive Intelligence is a systematic and ethical program for gathering, analyzing, and managing external information that can affect your company's plans, decisions, and operations. 
Put another way, CI is the process of enhancing marketplace competitiveness through a greater -- yet unequivocally ethical -- understanding of a firm's competitors and the competitive environment. 
Specifically, it is the legal collection and analysis of information regarding the capabilities, vulnerabilities, and intentions of business competitors, conducted by using information databases and other "open sources" and through ethical inquiry. CI enables senior managers in companies of all sizes to make informed decisions about everything from marketing, R&D, and investing tactics to long-term business strategies. Effective CI is a continuous process involving the legal and ethical collection of information, analysis that doesn't avoid unwelcome conclusions, and controlled dissemination of actionable intelligence to decision makers. 

Competitive Intelligence is the collection and analysis of intelligence information, and also the intelligence production, which are competitive strategy, research reports, system, system output and using. Both before and after it is actually a step in the implementation process associated with each other. There are 8 steps to Launch and complete a Competitive Intelligence mission.

(1) The research of the enterprise: including the establishment of competitive system and analysis of data, determine the competitiveness of the key decisions leading products, screening major competitors.

(2) Research competitors: including the use of a variety of legal means to access, collect all kinds of information or publications, databases, participate in the exhibition (sales) will, conferences, exchanges and so on, in time to understand and fully grasp the dynamics of information on competitors.

(3) Research the competitive environment: including domestic and foreign markets, technical development level, national, regional, sectoral policies and relevant laws and regulations, understand the business development opportunities and threats.

(4) Quantitative comparative analysis: including the companies and competitors in various indicators of qualitative comparison and quantitative comparison of the statistics related to the data, draw conclusions, screening, processing, computing, sorting and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, comprehensive analysis of and so on.

(5) Plan competitive strategy: included in the comparative analysis based on the development of the enterprise's development strategy, product and price positioning, marketing strategy, management improvement programs, structural adjustment suggestions, and complete the corresponding research report and its annex.

(6) Establishment of the organizational system: including the establishment of appropriate in-house competitive intelligence system, the system is to ensure that enterprises can independently carry out continuing in the future competitive intelligence, business strategy to become an integral part of the management system. It can be built in the planning, research and development, marketing department should have information sector to take part. It is best to lead by the principal leaders of enterprises. 

(7) Establishment of computer system: including at the enterprise information management system (MIS) based on competitive intelligence or independent establishment of computer network systems for information collection, transmission, processing and delivery to make the competitive intelligence information, modern, truly tracking and warning. 

(8) Establishment of improvements system: including the creation of intelligence files to solicit user feedback, organizational experts, acceptance, suggest improvements for the development and implementation of improvement measures, so as to ensure the quality of the results and play a better role.

1, Enterprises are difficult to detect the problems by themselves, through technical monitoring and unannounced visits, we will look for the enterprise competitive intelligence opened loopholes in the management and staff misconduct. 

2, Mastering market information, Global-Hunt will take our own methods which have been fully practiced, not only looking for data, but rather to tackle the problem through field investigations, to work on specific targets in order to achieve the purpose perfectly and gather the most realistic first-hand information. 

3, to maintain the market competitiveness, we will provide you with a long-term goal of a particular market or the implementation of effective monitoring, so that you can grasp the fastest and most accurate information you need to know. 

4, particular intelligence gathering, we will be based on the special needs of enterprises, development of targeted intelligence-gathering program and technology platform designed to skilful investigative techniques and leading technology platform for the enterprise competitive intelligence communications.