In order to obtain competitive advantage, it is imperative to strengthen the capability of forecasting and risk and crisis management by effectively organizing and analizing gathered information, data and intelligence. The lack of such fundamental issues in intelligence war was the major reason why Japanese Imperial Navy was miserably defeated by the US navy at the Pacific Ocean Midway battle in world war the second and further more Japanese economy suffered from the collapse of bubbled economy in 90s and the present world financial and economic crisis occurred by US subprime crisis. Under such circumstances, it will be possible that Japan will lose the 2nd position in GDP being overtaken by China in 2010. Intelligence and knowledge will play an important and major role in the 21st century. Japan should do her utmost best to strengthen the capability of forecasting and risk and crisis management through maximum utilization of business and competitive intelligence. It is therefore requested that Japan should further accelerate and promote the research and education of business and competitive intelligence to cope with USA and Europe.

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Scenario Planning, regarded as the most advanced in CI analysis, is the technique introduced by trial and error. The traditional analysis was based on the following two approaches: “know the enemy (your rival company)" and “predict the future". This had come to fail especially since 1990's with the sudden entry of unpredicted rival companies from different industries. Thus the approaches, “know yourself (your company)" and “prepare for the future", have come to be emphasized instead. The combination of these two has led to the present-day Scenario Planning. It starts with the analysis of vulnerabilities of your company, followed by the creation of scenarios. The keys to the success of Scenario Planning are to create only scenarios affecting your serious interests, to discover and emphasize predetermined elements, and to clarify the driving force behind each scenario.

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Financial Intelligence is defined as the intelligence for national security required, collected and analyzed by financial-oriented institutions using financial methods to provide in financial format to policy-makers. It started in 1990's mainly from law enforcement activities to combat with anti-money laundering. 9-11 terror in 2001 made it prepared to outreach toward new battle-field in financially fighting asymmetrical warfare with unconventional threat. With emerging perception of North Korea and Iran as vital national security threats against her, the United States started to vigorously apply financial intelligence to those countries from 2005. The US intelligence community currently puts primary priority to financial markets and services as its activities domains for intelligence since outbreak of global financial crisis in fall 2007.

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The tax competitive intelligence sponsors important information for the management decision making of the company. A purpose of this study is to model the decision-making method that used tax competitive intelligence. A method of the approach is to analyze the activity of the company heuristically. The tax competitive intelligence is a study to build the new horizon.

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The innovation system is in a big revolutionary period now, because of global competition. The new approach of the Open innovation as antithesis of traditional linear R&D model is on the rise. This research is focused on new approach of the Open innovation, using case studies from the high-tech Semiconductor industry which describes the importance and the role of CTI especially on value creation utilizing external technology and knowledge in the Open innovation. At the end, it presents the competitive advantage necessary for the construction of a technological strategy of the enterprise.

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