ASIS&T 2013: From competitive intelligence as a state of mind to information transculture

The current study proceeds from a transdisciplinary, ecological and systemic angle as it undertakes to interrogate the information skills of users who are uninitiated and untrained to a competitive intelligence model (and specifically, to the French model, which proposes a more generic and all‐encompassing approach than other models). In addition to outlining a framework for assessing these informactors' performance within the context of the informational act, this paper proposes new definitions for the terms “strategic information” and “information intelligence”, as a ways to further investigate the pioneering concept of “information transculture” – a concept which stems from the confluence of various generic approaches to information literacy and which is set forth here for the first time.