Information gathering is not an easy task in Africa. This fundamental observation is hardly debatable: the collection, processing, storage, and exploitation of …

Introduction Competitive intelligence (CI) refers to all actions aimed at collecting, analyzing, and disseminating strategic information to anticipate changes in the economic …

A Global Context of Intensifying Competition Gone are the days when one had to look back to Antiquity or the early modern …

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), launched in 2021, is one of the most ambitious economic integration efforts globally, uniting 54 …

Abstract This paper is premised on the assertion that systematically processed information—big data—is a source of power. When professionally analyzed, such data …