IT have indeed merged: new empirical data”, Vol 7, No 1 (2017) “Business intelligence, big data and theory” and Vol 6, No 3 (2016) “What role does technology play for intelligence studies at the start of the 21st century?”. Special issues have looked at the problem of IT failures in relation to business intelligence: “How companies succeed and fail to succeed with the implementation of intelligence systems”, Vol 7, No 3 (2017) and “How companies work and fail to work with business intelligence, Vol 7, No 2 (2017). During the past years companies have indeed learned from their failures. Maybe this phase was inevitable as a part of growing up. We see the same development on e-commerce sites: they mostly work well now, but didn’t just a few years ago. A certain difference between countries still exists, but the industry is getting there. Closely related to failures of implementation are user perspectives on business intelligence systems, which have resulted in numerous research articles. A well-cited article by Adamala and Cidrin (2011) led to the development of several models and theories as presented, for example, in Vol 6, No 2 (2016) entitled “User perspectives on business intelligence”. The focus in JISIB is always technology. It is more a question of which aspect of technology we focus on. In this issue, it is social media or social media intelligence. The paper by Gioti and Ponis entitled “Social business intelligence: Review and research directions” is a literature review exploring the new direction of social business intelligence (SBI), where social media meets BI. The last paper is entitled “Business intelligence for social media interaction in the travel industry in Indonesia”. The authors, Yulianto, Girsang and Rumagit propose a way to develop a data warehouse to analyze data from social media, such as likes, comments and sentiment, applied to the travel industry in Indonesia. Another aspect of the journal maintains the tradition of intelligence studies in general. Intelligence studies must always be broad to be relevant and not to miss important pieces. Specialization is a necessity and a curse at the same time. Vol 6, No 1 (2016) in entitled “The width and scope of intelligence studies in business”. A part of this width and critique has involved self-reflection. Thus earlier articles in JISIB often discussed methods. Case studies (by country or industry) were always a favorite. In Vol 4, No 3 (2014) JISIB continued this tradition of publishing case studies. In Vol 3, No 2 (2013), the whole issue is dedicated to one country; Brazil. Analyzing patents analysis has also been a frequent and reoccurring topic. In this issue both of these directions are represented. The third article is entitled “Investigating the competitive intelligence practices of Peruvian fresh grapes exporters,” written by Bisson, Mercedes, and Tong. The authors suggest a number of changes for Peruvian grapes exporters to become more competitive based on a CI approach. The fourth paper by Shaikh and Singhal entitled “An analysis of ip management strategies of ict companies based on patent filings” tries to identify the strategies of five US and Indian IT companies by analyzing their patents. The first paper by Nuortimo is entitled “Measuring public acceptance with opinion mining: The case of the energy industry with long-term coal R&D investment projects” and is part of his dissertation in science communication at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oulu. The paper shows how opinion mining can be used effectively, and was one of a series presented at the ICI Conference in Bad Nauheim this year. Many of the earlier papers in JISIB came directly from academic or practitioners’ conferences. In Vol 2, No 1 (2012) it said: “The journal works in symbioses with a number of conferences. It relies heavily on the contributions of scientific papers presented at these conferences, in particular for these first issues. Among these we would in particular like to mention the more scholarly conferences, like VSST, ECIS, ICTICTI and SIIE. In the near future we also hope to receive contributions Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business Vol. 8, No 2 (2018) p. 4-5 Open Access: Freely available at: https://ojs.hh.se/ from INOSA and ECKM. We also receive support from members in the more professional conferences related to Intelligence Studies like ICI and SCIP” (p. 4). And Vol 3, No 3 (2013): “The journal continues to draw mainly on articles presented at academic conferences on topics related to competitive intelligence. In 2013 SCIP organized a first conference in South Africa, under the leadership of ASA du Toit, the journal’s editor for Africa.”. And in Vol 2, No 3 (2012): “Most contributions continue to come from the best papers from a number of conferences related to Intelligence Studies. Two out of five articles come from ECKM 2012, which was held 6-7 September in Cartagena, Spain.” And in Vol 2, No 2 (2012) echoed a similar sentiment. Today the number of conferences has been reduced for different reasons, which it takes too long to get into here and now. The last group of articles worth mentioning is opinion pieces. These are non-empirical articles. Today they are less frequent, but at the beginning they served another role, as pointed out in Vol 4, No 1 (2014): “In this issue of JISIB we have admitted a large number of opinion pieces. Opinion pieces are important to allow for a broader perspective of the field in terms of policies, adaptions of CI in foreign countries and general interest in the form of debates. It also shows the normative qualities that are present in any social science discipline”. At the very beginning it was also made clear that the goal was always to be relevant for practitioners. Thus in Vol 1, No 1 (2011) we read: “The final aim of the journal is to be of use to practitioners. We are not interested in theory for the sake of theory, and we do not want to publish solutions to small problems which will have no real impact in the intelligence field.”. With your help we try to keep with that goal. As always, we would above all like to thank the authors for their contributions to this issue of JISIB. Thanks to Dr. Allison Perrigo for reviewing English grammar and helping with layout design for all articles and to the Swedish Research Council for continuous financial support. A special congratulation goes to Rainer Michaeli for having taken the ICI conference to its 10th anniversary. Well done, and thank you for the ongoing cooperation.

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IT确实已经合并：新的经验数据”，第7卷，第1期（2017年），“商业智能，大数据和理论”，第6卷，第3期（2016年），“技术在开始时对情报研究起什么作用21世纪？”。特殊问题研究了与商业智能相关的IT失败问题：“公司如何通过实施智能系统而成功和失败”，第7卷，第3期（2017年）和“公司如何与之合作，以及与之合作失败”。商业智能，第7卷，第2期（2017）。在过去的几年中，公司确实从失败中吸取了教训。作为成长的一部分，也许这一阶段是不可避免的。我们在电子商务网站上看到了相同的发展：它们现在大多运行良好，但不是几年前。各国之间仍然存在一定的差异，但该行业正在发展。与实现失败密切相关的是用户对商业智能系统的看法，这导致了许多研究文章。Adamala和Cidrin（2011）的一篇引文广受好评的文章促成了几种模型和理论的发展，例如，在第6卷第2期（2016）中，标题为“用户对商业智能的看法”。JISIB的重点始终是技术。这更多地是我们关注技术的哪个方面的问题。在本期中，它是社交媒体或社交媒体情报。Gioti和Ponis撰写的论文“社会商业智能：回顾和研究方向”是一篇文献综述，探讨了社会媒体与BI相遇的社会商业智能（SBI）的新方向。最后一篇论文的标题为“印度尼西亚旅游业中社交媒体交互的商业智能”。作者Yulianto，Girsang和Rumagit提出了一种开发数据仓库的方法，以分析来自社交媒体的数据，例如喜欢，评论和情绪，这些数据已应用于印度尼西亚旅游业。该杂志的另一方面保持了情报研究的传统。智力研究必须始终是广泛的，以具有相关性，并且不要错过重要的部分。同时专业化是必要和诅咒。第6卷第1期（2016年），标题为“商业智能研究的广度和范围”。这种宽度和批评的一部分涉及自我反省。因此，JISIB的早期文章经常讨论方法。案例研究（按国家或行业）始终是最受欢迎的。在第4卷中 JISIB第3号（2014年）延续了案例研究的出版传统。在第3卷第2期（2013年）中，整个问题只针对一个国家；巴西。分析专利分析也是一个经常发生的话题。在本期中，这两个方向均被表示。第三篇文章的标题为“调查秘鲁新鲜葡萄出口商的竞争情报做法”，由比森，梅赛德斯和唐撰写。作者们提出了许多改变，使秘鲁的葡萄出口商能够基于CI方法提高竞争力。Shaikh和Singhal撰写的第四篇论文名为“基于专利申请的ICT公司IP管理策略分析”，试图通过分析五家美国和印度IT公司的专利来确定其策略。Nuortimo的第一篇论文的标题是“通过舆论挖掘来衡量公众的接受度：以长期煤炭R＆D投资项目为例的能源行业”，并且是他在奥卢大学人文学院科学传播专业论文的一部分。这篇论文展示了意见挖掘如何被有效利用，并且是今年在巴特瑙海姆举行的ICI会议上提出的系列文章之一。JISIB的许多早期论文直接来自学术或从业者会议。在第2卷，第1期（2012年）中说：“该期刊与许多会议共生。它在很大程度上依赖于这些会议上发表的科学论文的贡献，特别是对于这些第一个问题。在这些活动中，我们尤其要提及更具学术意义的会议，例如VSST，ECIS，ICTICTI和SIIE。在不久的将来，我们还希望收到对《商业研究情报杂志》的贡献。8，2018年第2期 4-5开放获取：可从INOSA和ECKM免费访问：https://ojs.hh.se/。在与情报研究有关的更专业的会议（例如ICI和SCIP）中，我们也得到了成员的支持”（第4页）。第3卷第3期（2013年）：“该期刊继续主要借鉴学术会议上有关竞争情报相关主题的文章。2013年，SCIP在该杂志的非洲编辑ASA du Toit的领导下在南非举办了第一次会议。” 在第2卷第3期（2012年）中：“大多数贡献仍然来自许多与情报研究有关的会议的最佳论文。五分之二的文章来自ECKM 2012，于9月6日至7日在西班牙卡塔赫纳举行。” 在第2卷中，第2期（2012年）也表达了类似的观点。今天，由于各种原因，会议的数量已减少，进入现在和现在花费的时间太长。最后一组值得一提的文章是舆论片。这些是非经验性的文章。今天，它们不再那么频繁了，但是正如第4卷第1期（2014年）所指出的，它们起初起着另一个作用：“在JISIB这一期中，我们接受了大量意见。意见书对于在政策，外国对CI的适应以及以辩论形式引起的普遍关注方面具有广阔的视野非常重要。它还显示了任何社会科学学科中存在的规范性素质。” 在开始时也明确指出，目标始终与从业者相关。因此，在第一卷第一期（2011年）中，我们读到：“该期刊的最终目的是为从业人员使用。为了理论的缘故，我们对理论不感兴趣，我们也不想发布解决小问题的解决方案，这些小问题不会对情报领域产生任何实际影响。” 在您的帮助下，我们将努力实现这一目标。与往常一样，我们首先要感谢作者为这一期JISIB所做的贡献。感谢Allison Perrigo博士复习英语语法并为所有文章提供版式设计帮助，并感谢瑞典研究委员会的持续财政支持。特别感谢Rainer Michaeli将ICI会议举办了十周年。做得好，