CASE STUDIES16 April 2026· 10 min
Competitive Intelligence Best Practices for Executives in 2024
67% of executives say they lack timely competitive insights to make confident strategic decisions. Discover the frameworks, tools, and processes that separate world-class CI programs from guesswork.
SOURCES
[1]Crayon Competitive Intelligence Report 2023 — State of Competitive Intelligence
[2]SCIP (Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals) — CI Best Practices Survey 2023
[3]McKinsey & Company — 'The Strategic Intelligence Advantage', McKinsey Quarterly, 2022
[4]Forrester Research — 'The ROI of Competitive Intelligence Programs', 2023
[5]U.S. Department of Justice — Economic Espionage Act Enforcement Statistics, 2023
[6]EU Trade Secrets Directive 2016/943 — European Commission
[7]HubSpot Annual Report & Growth Strategy Disclosures, 2023
[8]Andy Grove — 'Only the Paranoid Survive', Currency/Doubleday, 1996
[9]Cisco Annual Competitive Intelligence Review, referenced in Harvard Business Review, 2022