Strategy-oriented competitive intelligence is CI provided in support of strategic-level, as distinguished from tactical, decision making. This means providing the higher levels of management with information on the competitive, economic, legal, and political environment in which your firm and its competitors now operate as well as the environment in which they will operate in the future. In practice, this may include information on products and/or services that differentiate one competitor from another or even an assessment of a criminal environment in which a firm may find itself involuntarily operating.