Interest in starting an online-only academic CI journal? - Competitive Intelligence2024-03-28T19:37:19Zhttps://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/forum/topics/interest-in-starting-an?commentId=2036441%3AComment%3A23145&feed=yes&xn_auth=noFlipping through a magazine o…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2009-06-15:2036441:Comment:237362009-06-15T00:17:50.944ZJason J. Tonghttps://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/JasonJTong
Flipping through a magazine on someone's coffee table this weekend, I came across this article (don't you love those serendipitous CI finds?)<br />
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<a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/faculty-research/ramseyer.shavell-.html">http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/faculty-research/ramseyer.shavell-.html</a><br />
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It's about a new open access on-line peer-reviewed academic law journal being started at Harvard. Of course if you are Harvard, things are much easier, but even they needed…
Flipping through a magazine on someone's coffee table this weekend, I came across this article (don't you love those serendipitous CI finds?)<br />
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<a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/faculty-research/ramseyer.shavell-.html">http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/faculty-research/ramseyer.shavell-.html</a><br />
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It's about a new open access on-line peer-reviewed academic law journal being started at Harvard. Of course if you are Harvard, things are much easier, but even they needed funding from outside sources... Craig
You will remember that…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2009-06-12:2036441:Comment:236352009-06-12T09:25:18.909ZDouglas BERNHARDThttps://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/DouglasBERNHARDT
Craig<br />
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You will remember that SCIP once had an excellent, hard-copy journal: <i>Competitive Intelligence Review.</i> If one could replicate that, I would be happy to contribute in any way I can. Is there any merit in talking to Wiley about this? Also, I much prefer a physical product; whereas, for example, I can access any <i>HBR</i> or <i>McKinseyQuarterly</i> article online, I do like to keep my hard copies of the journals for browsing and research purposes.<br />
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Best regards<br />
Douglas Bernhardt
Craig<br />
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You will remember that SCIP once had an excellent, hard-copy journal: <i>Competitive Intelligence Review.</i> If one could replicate that, I would be happy to contribute in any way I can. Is there any merit in talking to Wiley about this? Also, I much prefer a physical product; whereas, for example, I can access any <i>HBR</i> or <i>McKinseyQuarterly</i> article online, I do like to keep my hard copies of the journals for browsing and research purposes.<br />
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Best regards<br />
Douglas Bernhardt Mark, You could have saved yo…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2009-06-12:2036441:Comment:236282009-06-12T08:37:59.910ZSheila Wrighthttps://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/SheilaWright
Mark, You could have saved yourself some time. Look at Table 4 in this article which is just about all you need to know which titles accept CI work.<br />
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Bibliography and Assessment of Key Competitive Intelligence Scholarship: Part 4 (2003-2006)<br />
by Craig S Fleisher, Sheila Wright and Rob Tindale<br />
Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management, Volume 4, No. 1, 2007, pp 32-92<br />
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This assumes of course that SCIP will still grant you access to it because all the articles seem to have disappeared.…
Mark, You could have saved yourself some time. Look at Table 4 in this article which is just about all you need to know which titles accept CI work.<br />
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Bibliography and Assessment of Key Competitive Intelligence Scholarship: Part 4 (2003-2006)<br />
by Craig S Fleisher, Sheila Wright and Rob Tindale<br />
Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management, Volume 4, No. 1, 2007, pp 32-92<br />
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This assumes of course that SCIP will still grant you access to it because all the articles seem to have disappeared. This is not what authors and their readers expect from a Journal publisher. Open Access Journals:
I was…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2009-06-11:2036441:Comment:236042009-06-11T19:16:47.287ZMark Johnsonhttps://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/MarkJohnson
Open Access Journals:<br />
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I was looking at open access journals and found the following:<br />
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Business Intelligence Journal,<br />
Volume 2 - Number 1 - January 2009 - Semiannual Publication<br />
Published by the IIU Press and Research Centre, A.C., Brussels EU Commission Building, Rond Point, Schuman 6, Box 5, 1040 Brussels, Belgium, for the Department of Business Management and Economics (BME) of the School of Doctoral Studies (European Union) at the Isles Internationale Université (IIU-EU), Brussels, Belgium…
Open Access Journals:<br />
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I was looking at open access journals and found the following:<br />
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Business Intelligence Journal,<br />
Volume 2 - Number 1 - January 2009 - Semiannual Publication<br />
Published by the IIU Press and Research Centre, A.C., Brussels EU Commission Building, Rond Point, Schuman 6, Box 5, 1040 Brussels, Belgium, for the Department of Business Management and Economics (BME) of the School of Doctoral Studies (European Union) at the Isles Internationale Université (IIU-EU), Brussels, Belgium in collaboration with the Business Intelligence Service of London, UK (Sayco UK).<br />
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Information Sciences for Decision Making<br />
ISSN: 1265499X<br />
Subject: Media and communication --- Computer Science<br />
Publisher: University of South Toulon - Var<br />
Country: France<br />
Language: French, English<br />
Keywords: information sciences, <i><u><b>competitive intelligence</b></u></i><br />
Start year: 1997<br />
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South African Journal of Information Management<br />
ISSN: 1560683X<br />
Subject: Education --- Business and Management --- Library and Information Science<br />
Publisher: University of Johannesburg<br />
Country: South Africa<br />
Language: English<br />
Keywords: information management theory, information management technologies, knowledge management, <b><i><u>competitive intelligence</u></i></b>, education, business<br />
Start year: 1999<br />
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In addition, I found a few open access journals dealing with military intelligence and/or homeland security intelligence issues. Brilliant! Thank you Sheila.…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2009-06-10:2036441:Comment:235672009-06-10T22:59:24.288ZArik Johnsonhttps://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/ArikJohnson
Brilliant! Thank you Sheila. I guess the question that I still have out there is Craig's #3 above; could SCIP "spin off" JCIM so that another body or group or consortium or something could fund its resurrection or is it a moot point now? Are CI academics better off with one of Craig's other options above - creating something new, doing nothing, publishing within the existing non-CI-specific journals or another option?<br />
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What's your take Sheila?
Brilliant! Thank you Sheila. I guess the question that I still have out there is Craig's #3 above; could SCIP "spin off" JCIM so that another body or group or consortium or something could fund its resurrection or is it a moot point now? Are CI academics better off with one of Craig's other options above - creating something new, doing nothing, publishing within the existing non-CI-specific journals or another option?<br />
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What's your take Sheila? I'm pleased to see a few more…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2009-06-10:2036441:Comment:235612009-06-10T21:22:24.776ZSheila Wrighthttps://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/SheilaWright
I'm pleased to see a few more voices in this debate. Just to answer Arik's question. Bobby Brody championed JCIM going Open Access during our tenure as Co-Editors and took charge of getting the myriad of procedures, including handling forms for the Library of Congress so that it could all happen. The proposal was discussed and agreed in a reporting phone call with me, Bobby, Alex Graham and Joe Goldberg (SCIP President at the time) and was minuted as a decision. As an expert in this area, Bobby…
I'm pleased to see a few more voices in this debate. Just to answer Arik's question. Bobby Brody championed JCIM going Open Access during our tenure as Co-Editors and took charge of getting the myriad of procedures, including handling forms for the Library of Congress so that it could all happen. The proposal was discussed and agreed in a reporting phone call with me, Bobby, Alex Graham and Joe Goldberg (SCIP President at the time) and was minuted as a decision. As an expert in this area, Bobby predicted that this was the way things would go and we had JCIM in there, right at the start. Here's a small challenge: for…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2009-06-10:2036441:Comment:235552009-06-10T17:15:48.943ZMichael Neugartenhttps://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/MichaelNeugarten
Here's a small challenge: for all those who seem to think that any process rooted in organizations can exist, flourish, and attract good people WITHOUT at least, having some related academic activity, I'd be curious to hear about such a sub-area. As far as I can tell, almost EVERY area of organization, management and business has its researchers, publications - papers, bboks, articles, and in some form or another, journals.<br />
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I think CI is pretty much alone in NOT being sufficiently written…
Here's a small challenge: for all those who seem to think that any process rooted in organizations can exist, flourish, and attract good people WITHOUT at least, having some related academic activity, I'd be curious to hear about such a sub-area. As far as I can tell, almost EVERY area of organization, management and business has its researchers, publications - papers, bboks, articles, and in some form or another, journals.<br />
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I think CI is pretty much alone in NOT being sufficiently written about, researched, published, talked about and so on, and having to "rely" on anecdotal work/stories, and misguided press reports - which all too often focus on those negative perceptions which continue to be associated with CI, and then draw the usual and tedious apologetics and denials, something which SCIP devoted (too) much energy too in the past. No one would ever suggest that one way of procuring a firm's necessary raw materials would be to steal them, yet many in CI are still busy 'explaining' that "CI is NOT industrial espionage".<br />
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CI needs to draw on practice, consultants, workshops, magazine and news items, AND academic work and research. The occasional MBA course (currently the most common academic framework in which onr can find CI courses in academia - in some western countries at least) is not and cannot be considered sufficient. The field also needs theses, research, student projects, the building up of a bank of reliable data, and a range of quantitative analytical activities, as well as the more qualitative synthesis of ideas from different disciplines, reflection, a seeking after breaking down interdisciplinarity borders, and a drawing in and cross-fertilization from any area that may be of use. Hi Arik: There are numerous w…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2009-06-10:2036441:Comment:235472009-06-10T15:55:11.456ZCraig S. Fleisherhttps://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/CraigSFleisher
Hi Arik: There are numerous ways forward, each of which has myriad advantages and disadvantages. If I wasn't up all night I'd like to take a stab at outlining all of them. For sake of continuity, let me get that ball rolling again by suggesting these would include:<br />
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1. Doing nothing. The CI community has made some progress (a lot? not as much as many of us had hoped?) over the last few decades both with and without the academic journal. I know from having done and reviewed numerous surveys at…
Hi Arik: There are numerous ways forward, each of which has myriad advantages and disadvantages. If I wasn't up all night I'd like to take a stab at outlining all of them. For sake of continuity, let me get that ball rolling again by suggesting these would include:<br />
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1. Doing nothing. The CI community has made some progress (a lot? not as much as many of us had hoped?) over the last few decades both with and without the academic journal. I know from having done and reviewed numerous surveys at SCIP in the past (going back to the late 80s when I first started doing these wit John Prescott) that a lot of people think the <i>CI Magazine</i>, <i>CI Online</i> or its brethren are "good enough" and can push the field forward. Plus, there are many fine scholarly, research-based efforts that come out at conferences on an annual basis (but how many people actually know of or have read these?), in full-length books (including those done by the CI Foundation -- that was one of the hopes we had for it when I first developed the concept over 5 years ago), and in non CI_focused academic journals (again, how many people read or aware of these -- you can see thousands of them that we have cataloged at my colleague Sheila Wright's CMITRI site at <a href="http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/business_and_law/business/cimitri/cis/index.jsp"></a>. Again, I ask how many people have bothered to look at what is already out there? This is just a (pretty thorough and expansive) bibliographic list, and most people have never read more than a handful of these pieces. I'm not saying practitioners need to have read some minimum number, but some of these articles form the foundation for understanding CI, its practice, ethics, development, limitations, connection with other fields, and so forth. When SCIP/CIF finally releases its Body of Knowledge project findings, will we ignore that as well?<br />
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2. Starting a brand new academic journal - it could be done in traditional print format or all-digitally. Keys in doing this is to gain legitimacy and respectability, provide broad access to author's works, connect CI in with adjoining and complementary fields, and identifying a cohort of individuals willing to sacrifice their resources (particularly time) to assist in all the roles needed for this effort, which include researching, writing and submitting articles, managing reviewers, supervising the review process, coordinating the "go to print/web" process, communicating with the relevant constituencies, and so on. Most journals have dozens of people to fill these roles, and at the best journals number these individuals in the hundreds. Look at the "thank you" pages at the end of the year in a top journal where they thank the 100+ reviewers alone, and this doesn't include all the other people involved in a journal process. I'm not seeing WE need that many, but my point is that the work must be shared amongst some minimum number of people in this (or any other willing) community.<br />
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3. Resurrecting the JCIM. A lot has already been written about this so I'll leave those thoughts to hold this space.<br />
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4. Devote some partial space in an already existing publication to dedicate to rigorosly developed CI papers. Many journals have gone, or started in this "strategic alliance" manner, until they were able to stand up on their own.<br />
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5. Other ideas??<br />
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I will re-iterate something I have said all along. I cannot think of any field that has achieved long-standing public acceptance and legitimacy in the absence of having 1) some critical mass of scholarly research performed regularly in and on it, as well as having 2) a similar "critical mass" of activity in the form of courses, degrees, programs, and subjects, etc.in the post-secondary community. CI has never achieved the needed mass in either of these. SCIP's statement on the statu…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2009-06-10:2036441:Comment:235372009-06-10T12:50:28.162ZArik Johnsonhttps://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/ArikJohnson
SCIP's statement on the status of JCIM is currently and officially "on hold" pending presumed sponsorship funding by ... well, somebody ... who can finance its resurrection. As I think Craig Fleisher pointed out earlier but which might be less known to most, JCIM is a product of the CIF (SCIP's non-profit foundation), currently presided over by SCIP VP Dr. Eduardo Florez-Bermudez. Simply put, it was shuttered a year ago when SCIP couldn't pay the bills to keep it running.<br />
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Now, I'm less…
SCIP's statement on the status of JCIM is currently and officially "on hold" pending presumed sponsorship funding by ... well, somebody ... who can finance its resurrection. As I think Craig Fleisher pointed out earlier but which might be less known to most, JCIM is a product of the CIF (SCIP's non-profit foundation), currently presided over by SCIP VP Dr. Eduardo Florez-Bermudez. Simply put, it was shuttered a year ago when SCIP couldn't pay the bills to keep it running.<br />
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Now, I'm less interested in the past than I am the future and I'm more familiar with the situation than I care to be, so with all critiques of the way this was handled aside, as a believer in not reinventing the wheel and that the shortest distance between two points tending to be a straight line and all, I would suggest that one route forward would be, simply, to resurrect JCIM.<br />
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However, with CIF as the steward of JCIM, is that a reasonable proposal? At this point, would SCIP be better off spinning out CIF itself as a separate entity that can be invested in by a community beyond the membership of SCIP, as I believe, it was originally intended?<br />
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If we crush the costs of production for JCIM marginal to zero (in terms of fixed overhead that is, and make all costs variable to actual readership somehow) then could this work? Almost by definition this will require a different container for JCIM to continue than CIF as it is currently overseen by SCIP, so I'd be very interested in how the board and staff at SCIP would see this as an organizational design option post-merger with FSI.<br />
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Any thoughts? I've been following this disc…tag:competitiveintelligence.ning.com,2009-06-10:2036441:Comment:235352009-06-10T11:59:27.872ZMark Johnsonhttps://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/profile/MarkJohnson
I've been following this discussion for quite some time now.<br />
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There are a core of folks who believe that CI is badly hampered without the existence of an Academic CI Journal.<br />
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There are a core of folks who may believe that while this is probably true, they may despair of the practicality of finding critical mass to write, review, edit, publish, and promote such a journal.<br />
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There also seem to be some who are a bit doubtful of the value or sustainability of the exercise, since for various reasons…
I've been following this discussion for quite some time now.<br />
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There are a core of folks who believe that CI is badly hampered without the existence of an Academic CI Journal.<br />
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There are a core of folks who may believe that while this is probably true, they may despair of the practicality of finding critical mass to write, review, edit, publish, and promote such a journal.<br />
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There also seem to be some who are a bit doubtful of the value or sustainability of the exercise, since for various reasons this type of journal has failed twice before.<br />
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The tone of discussions in the CI-Ning community are most like a sober cocktail party where many topics get digested but which is not particularly action oriented.<br />
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SCIP has dropped such a journal twice now. Fresh on the heels of near-bankruptcy and a merger, I submit SCIP is unlikely to be the sponsor of such a journal any time soon. The most passionate advocates are those who are already here. While it is possible that additional supporters may come forth, the key players are likely already here discussing the issues.<br />
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At what point do interested parties congeal into some sort of organizing committee?