Competitive Intelligence is one of the emerging disciplines that are having an increasingly important concern in the field of strategic management. It is a relatively new concept, that has like mission the search of the “good information of the external surroundings of the organization”,good information in the external environment of the organization, incorporating the processes and internal information, converts it into an intelligent product

Competitive Intelligence is part of a process in which the tools of technological monitoring and management of the knowledge are combined so that both activities allow to create a Optimum System of decision making in the surroundings of the organization of strategic nature for long periods or tactical for immediate actions. These decisions can affect the different departments from the organization.

Competitive Intelligence is the access in time to the knowledge of excellent information in the different phases from the decision making. It is a systematic program to collect and to analyze on the competitive activities of the other companies of the surroundings and the tendencies of the businesses generally, for to be able to do of the own company the best one in his market.