دفاتر البحوث العلمية
Volume 14, Numéro 1, Pages 134-156
2026-06-01

Strategic Intelligence, Environmental Challenges, And The Enhancement Of Decision-making Within Algerian Small And Medium-sized Enterprises (smes)

Authors : Cherif Khaled .

Abstract

The study’s findings reveal that strategic intelligence significantly enhances decision-making within service-providing firms at both the technological and competitive levels. Technological intelligence emerges as a genuine production factor, enabling technological and commercial advancement through the anticipation of new or substitute products, the exploitation of patent data, and strategic technological positioning, thereby conferring either early commercial or advanced technological advantages. Moreover, the slow pace of radical innovation among large firms creates opportunities for firms in developing countries to secure favorable positions along the trajectory of technological change. At the competitive level, competitive intelligence facilitates the anticipation of rivals’ actions and the assessment of competitive intensity; however, the proliferation of scenarios increases decision complexity, underscoring the need for interactive decision support systems (SIAD), datamining techniques, and data warehouses to analyze and prioritize the most probable scenarios. Ultimately, the effectiveness of these mechanisms depends on an organizational culture that recognizes the value of information and promotes its sharing, thereby consolidating an “information culture” as a prerequisite for translating strategic intelligence into effective and actionable decisions.

Keywords

Information ; relationship ; information ; decision-making ; environment ; strategic intelligence ; technology and competition