A majority (79.2%) of intelligence practitioners monitor social media sites to extract information relating to competitors, industry developments, consumer trends and more.
84.2% of respondents said the economic situation had not caused their intelligence team to be downsized. However, three quarters of respondents indicated that they would not be recruiting within their intelligence team in 2012.
Over a quarter (28%) admitted that their intelligence budget had been decreased in the last 2 years.
More than 1/3 of respondents have an intelligence budget of less than 50K Euros.($63K)
40.8% of respondents claimed the average salary for intelligence practitioners in their organization was between 35K and 45K Euros ($44K - $57K) Only a small proportion (11.8%) of those surveyed said the average income was more than 75K Euros.($94K)
Lack of human resources and lack of time are the difficulties most often encountered by intelligence teams.
Almost three quarters (70.4%) of respondents would describe the current performance of their intelligence unit as “satisfactory”.
89.6% of respondents recognized that monitoring competitors was a key concern relating to intelligence, while two thirds agreed that acquiring talent was not as important in their intelligence needs.
The average number of hours per week an intelligence team spends searching for information online is 15, however some intelligence teams find they spend up to 70 hours per week on this activity alone.
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