Isn’t it a problem that work of Business and Competitive Intelligence often makes too much use of analytical thinking and quantitative analysis?
By lacking complementary thinking (see question 13 above) and having a relatively one-sided analytical focus in these two branches of intelligence, it becomes problematic to make complex situations, requiring a more holistic perspective, intelligible. One is at the same time missing that understanding which can be developed by the insight about how the different methodological views also give different results. Apart from this there is another problem with its relatively one-sided focus on quantitative data. This focus tends to reflect what is similar among dissimilar phenomena too much, and there is then a risk that one is missing what is odd, different, unique which never needs to be too small to carry information about something much bigger. 15.
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