Introduction / J. Mark Munoz -- Understanding business intelligence -- Executive perspectives on global business intelligence : implications on corporate management / J. Mark Munoz -- Beyond adjustment : cultural boundary spanning / Franziska Engelhard and Dirk Holtbrugge -- Clustering methods in business intelligence / Subhajit Chakrabarty -- Cyber security and the importance of business intelligence / Tricia-Ann Smith DaSilva -- Managing business intelligence -- Data visualization in business intelligence / Jack G. Zheng -- Embedding foresight in business intelligence / Marti Arran Masters and Valtteri Kaartemo -- Inventing consciousness : beyond business intelligence / Al Naqvi -- Corruption intelligence and analysis / Duane Windsor -- Enterprise performance management and best practices in business planning and advanced analytics / Jason Balogh and Sholape Kolawole -- Strategies for global business intelligence success -- Agility in business intelligence / Richard RJ P. Podeschi II -- International market intelligence / Andrew C Gross, Rajshekhar (Raj) G. Javalgi and Nicholas Mathew -- How semiotics analysis generates intelligence in formulating cross-cultural advertising strategies / Satyendra Singh -- Networks as a catalyst of technological intelligence : cases of chinese small and medium sized enterprises / Zongqiang Ren and Wiboon Kittilaksanawong -- Creating value from business intelligence systems investments / Mohamed Z Elbashir -- Advanced analytics: moving the needle of business performance / Jason Balogh -- Conclusion / J. Mark Munoz -- Index