USE OF RECONNAISSANCE METHODS SEEKING ADVANTAGES IN COMPETITIVE CONTEST

Abstract

According to the experts in reconnaissance opinion after the Soviet Union had been destroyed great many specialists working in special detachments (collecting and analyzing information, operational servants, analysts, IT specialists, technicians and others) were fired in post soviet republics because of reduction of staff, services dissolution, also were tired (20 years’ working experience is enough) and on the other grounds. Large business corporations soon spotted the possibilities to use such specialists’ experience and knowledge so the services of vindication, security and others as well as separate consulting companies were founded. Some scientists maintain that large world corporations successfully use virtues provided by competitive reconnaissance in order to achieve competitive advantages. The company, which decided to invest into collecting and analyzing information about rivals’ activity and plans, is usually interested in the benefit it could get. Therefore in the most scientists’ opinion the possible benefit of business information’s safety includes the company’s funds economy, profit gain, respectability, support in competitive contest, possibility to expand the market (Stephen, 2004).