Open AccessASIS&T 2013: From competitive intelligence as a state of mind to information transculture
Author(s) -
Mallowan Monica,
Marcon Christian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.14505001053
Subject(s) - competitive intelligence , context (archaeology) , set (abstract data type) , knowledge management , computer science , state (computer science) , information literacy , cognitive science , sociology , data science , epistemology , psychology , world wide web , paleontology , philosophy , algorithm , biology , programming language
The current study proceeds from a transdisciplinary, ecological and systemic angle as it undertakes to interrogate the information skills of users who are uninitiated and untrained to a competitive intelligence model (and specifically, to the French model, which proposes a more generic and all‐encompassing approach than other models). In addition to outlining a framework for assessing these informactors' performance within the context of the informational act, this paper proposes new definitions for the terms “strategic information” and “information intelligence”, as a ways to further investigate the pioneering concept of “information transculture” – a concept which stems from the confluence of various generic approaches to information literacy and which is set forth here for the first time.