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J. Service Science Management, 2009, 3: 230-235 doi:10.4236/jssm.2009.23028 Published Online September 2009 (www.SciRP.org/journal/jssm) Competitive Intelligence Monitoring in the Risk Prevention of SMEs Xianjin ZHA, Minghong CHEN Center for Studies of Information Resources, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. Email: xianjinzha@163.com th th nd Received June 17 , 2009; revised July 24 , 2009; accepted August 2 , 2009. ABSTRACT Competitive Intelligence plays an increasingly important role in the risk prevention of SMEs, however, there is an ob- vious phenomenon—the absence of competitive intelligence in the field of Chinese SMEs. In this paper, the author firstly pointed out how many kinds of risks the SMEs were facing, and then analyzed the demand for competitive intelli- gence in the risk prevention of SMEs. Based on that, the model of competitive intelligence monitoring in the risk pre- vention of SMEs were put forward at last. Keywords: small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), risk prevention, competitive intelligence 1. Introduction With the change of economic environment and fierce the same industry, SMEs are smaller economic units— competition between large enterprises, many small and fewer employees, less assets and smaller scale. And the medium enterprises (SMEs) survive difficultly, for they modified definitions of SMEs are not the same in the are facing increasingly diversified and complicated risks different countries, development stages and industries, in the activities of production, operation, management however, the quality and the quantity are still basic pa- and decision-making. Thus people begin to explore how rameters for the definition of SM