Strategic intelligence is a systematic and ethical program for gathering, analyzing, and managing external information that enables your company to make informed business decisions.

战略情报是指系统和规范地收集，分析和管理外部信息，使公司能够作出明智的商业决策。

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Business Intelligence (BI) is the gathering and analysis of vast amounts of data in order to gain insights that drive strategic and tactical business decisions.

商业智能(Business Intelligence, BI)是对于大量数据的收集和分析，以便洞悉如何驱动战略性和策略性商业决策。

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Therefore, these trends and events form essential intelligence gathering for any business.

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Avoid getting distracted or buried in data by keeping a laser focus on gathering the customer intelligence that will help your business grow.

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Consequently, corporate intelligence-gathering is increasingly a business in itself, with consultancies springing up - both to help you to get the inside information you want, and to protect you against other firms' industrial spies.

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