000097321 001__ 97321 000097321 005__ 20210902121834.0 000097321 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.37380/jisib.v10i3.636 000097321 0248_ $$2sideral$$a121331 000097321 037__ $$aART-2020-121331 000097321 041__ $$aeng 000097321 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-6221-2824$$aEsteban Navarro, Miguel Ángel$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000097321 245__ $$aA project management approach to competitive intelligence 000097321 260__ $$c2020 000097321 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000097321 5203_ $$aThe research problem that this study seeks to solve is to examine the relationship between competitive intelligence (CI) and project management (PM). These disciplines coincide in their threefold approach to action, collection of results, and ability to react in response to environmental signs. However, the academic and professional literature has not explored the possible synergies between CI and PM, with the exception of the seminal proposals by Prescott in 1988 and 1999. The aim of this opinion article is to propose a new methodological approach for the production and transfer of CI in accordance with the international standards of PM. The methodology consists of an inductive reasoning process from specific observations and evidence gathered in our professional experience as CI practitioners over twenty years, contrasted with the findings of the scientific literature, the PMBOK® Guide of the Project Management Institute, and with the CI model proposed by the most relevant Spanish technical standards in R&D&I management and strategic intelligence management. The paper discusses the vision of intelligence production and dissemination in a project with five phases or groups of processes: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closure. Also, the responsibilities of the human intelligence team are exposed. This proposal could be an alternative to the departmental-based intelligence cycle model more aligned with the organizational culture and the usual operational practices and business processes of companies, founded on the design and deployment of projects with a specific beginning and end that is carried out to create a product, service or unique result. It is concluded also that there is a need for undertaking experimental implementation and case studies of this proposal in companies and their assessment by future academic studies. 000097321 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 000097321 592__ $$a0.331$$b2020 000097321 593__ $$aManagement Science and Operations Research$$c2020$$dQ2 000097321 593__ $$aBusiness, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)$$c2020$$dQ2 000097321 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000097321 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-7816-0050$$aGarcía Madurga, Miguel Angel$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000097321 7102_ $$14012$$2650$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas$$cÁrea Organización de Empresas 000097321 7102_ $$15013$$2105$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bUnidad Predepartam. Period.Co.$$cÁrea Comunic.Audiovis.Publici. 000097321 773__ $$g10, 3 (2020), 8-23$$tJournal of Intelligence Studies in Business$$x2001-015X 000097321 85641 $$uhttps://ojs.hh.se/index.php/JISIB/article/view/586$$zTexto completo de la revista 000097321 8564_ $$s389129$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/97321/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000097321 8564_ $$s324116$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/97321/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000097321 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:97321$$particulos$$pdriver 000097321 951__ $$a2021-09-02-10:19:21 000097321 980__ $$aARTICLE