Talk:Commercial intelligence

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Proposed merge of Competitive intelligence with Commercial intelligence

These articles seem to discuss an extremely similar subject matter. In fact they both mention the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals. TheDragonFire (talk) 08:28, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Merge completed Klbrain (talk) 15:36, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Proposed unmerge

I believe that the merge last year of Competitive intelligence and Commercial intelligence was completed with little discussion and was misguided. Competitive intelligence is a specific and relatively focussed field in which practitioners utilise legal and ethical methods to assess what their competitors are doing and planning, and taking appropriate steps to adapt to this intelligence. Commercial intelligence is a wider task in which practitioners assess the commercial environment in which they and their business or agency operate. See, for example, the brief note about commercial intelligence in a procurement and supply context at https://www.cips.org/intelligence-hub/procurement/big-data-in-procurement#item-block-4 and the UK Government's recruitment advertisement (2024) for a practitioner in the commercial intelligence field at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/understanding-needs-and-sourcing/commercial-intelligence-commercial-practitioner. Since governments do not operate in a competitive environment, the latter item is a good example of why we should not treat competitive intelligence and commercial intelligence as the same concepts. I do not suggest that TheDragonFire and Klbrain did not act in good faith in undertaking this merge, but my proposal would be to unmerge these two articles again. I note that Lmadureira completed an edit in September last year making a similar point. BobKilcoyne (talk) 15:20, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

More than 7 months on and with substantial edits in the interim, reversing a merge doesn't seem feasible. However, you can alway start a WP:SPLIT proposal. To say that governments aren't competitive is surprising - have you listened to 'today in parliament'? Klbrain (talk) 18:26, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

I seem to recall this was not particularly clear from the articles themselves, but I will absolutely yield to an informed opinion. If you are in a position to do so, one or both of the articles are in need of significant cleanup. TheDragonFire (talk) 09:42, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

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