The management of competitive intelligence in large and medium-size companies can be done in very different ways depending on its culture and sector.
To be able to reap the maximum benefits and obtain the participation of all the organization in the program of the CI, it must be assumed that the company that proposes the development of the CI activities follows the program.
The development of the program will be made through an augmented growth and divided into different phases which will give origin to a CI unit.
In this sense, most of the Indian companies, like most of the Western companies, have concentrated programs of CI in activities specialized and pertinent to a single functional area like commercial, technological or economic⁄financial.
