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The founding fathers |
The competitive intelligence process, today supervised by the Senior Director in charge of Competitive Intelligence, could not take on concrete form without the actions carried out over several years by the Founding Fathers if competitive intelligence. They have sought to set up the practice in the regions, to facilitate the adoption of this analysis framework by business leaders and to contribute the doctrinal elements needed to oversee this "science".
The forerunners :
Philippe CLERC, Director of competitive intelligence, innovation and ICT at ACFCI
Bernard ESAMBERT, former CEO of Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild
Bernard GERARD, former Prefect and former director of the Department of Territorial Surveillance
Robert GUILLAUMOT, Chairman of Alogic
Christian HARBULOT, Director of the Ecole de Guerre Economique
Jean-Louis LEVET, Associate Professor at the University of Paris XIII
Henri MARTRE, former Chairman of Aerospatiale and former delegate general for armament
Remy PAUTRAT, former Prefect and former Director of the DST
The instigators :
Claude GUEANT, Prefect, General secretary of the Elysee Palace ;
Pierre LACOSTE, Admiral, former General Director of External Security
Pierre MONGIN, Prefect, former Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister ;
André VIAU, Prefect of France’s Midi-Pyrénées Region
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