Some consider their job to be to simply listen to what others have to say and then bring that information back to their client. Sleuthing for a company is an increasingly popular career choice. The SCIP says that its membership has more than doubled in the last six years. 14 And . companies spend a total of $1 billion a year on competitive intelligence programs. 15 This is in contrast to the $45 billion that Fortune 100 companies lost to thefts of proprietary information in 1999. This amount continues to increase. But since “successful corporate espionage doesn’t.
