Note: Darwin Magazine is now dead. Some articles are moving to CIO. I will try to update the links when I have time...

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"Many corporate executives have a faulty understanding of just how to go about doing the kind of intelligent intelligence gathering that will keep them one step ahead of the competition. While corporate CI [competitive intelligence] units need to know the arsenal of dirty tricks competitors might use against them, specialists say they should also understand that good competitive intelligence can often be accomplished without resorting to such shenanigans. If you know what you're doing, they say, the information you seek about your competitor's plans can usually be obtained by legitimate 'open source' means."