The potentials of the use of instruments for the assessing of the business environment in the companies of the railways sector

Abstract

While assessing the business environment in the sector of transport, large corporations often meet the issue of the application of particular instruments for the assessing of the business environment to the companies of the transport sector. Aiming at adapting the methods of competitive intelligence the business faces the problems of applying to specialists who are competent in the sphere of use of these methods as well as the particular instruments for the assessing of information in the companies of the transport sector. Due to the fact that business usually treats scientific investigative or scientific applied methods only as theoretical, further use of modern instruments for the assessing of the business environment becomes difficult. However, it is necessary to note that scientists from the USA are considered to be the most progressive in the field of using methods of competitive intelligence as are Russian scientists, who have published a significant body of work connected with this issue. Since the experience of former employees of American secret services is considered to be the origin of the methods of competitive intelligence, American business became its pioneer user.