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Specifically, SCIP provides education and networking opportunities for business professionals working in the rapidly growing field of competitive intelligence (the legal and ethical collection and analysis of information regarding the capabilities, vulnerabilities, and intentions of business competitors). Many SCIP members have backgrounds in market research, strategic analysis, or science and technology.

Established in 1986, today SCIP has over 50 chapters around the world, with individual members in more than 50 nations. In addition, SCIP has alliance partnerships with independent affiliate organizations in many countries. SCIP now boasts more than 3,500 members worldwide.

SCIP was formed to assist members in enhancing their firms' competitiveness through a greater - yet unequivocally ethical - understanding of competitor behaviors and future strategies as well as the market dynamics in which they do business. SCIP assists its members by enhancing skills to:

  • Best identify and assess the strengths and weaknesses of competitors through the most recent advances in data gathering and analytical techniques.

  • Provide tools and techniques needed to turn a sea of data into Actionable Intelligence that will protect the company with a competitive edge.

  • Identify current, emerging, and potential competitors and project strategies that these competitors might pursue.

  • Communicate analytical implications concerning competitiveness for action.

  • Sharpen businesses' competitiveness through greater "intelligence."


SCIP supports insightful decision-making at the CEO level based on strategic information that may have originated from executives, market research managers, knowledge managers, strategic planners, integrators, protectors, analysts, or corporate librarians responsible for marketing, strategic planning, knowledge management, R&D, mergers & acquisitions, or corporate development.