Volume 12 Article informations The adequation between the available resources and the real needs of a strategic scanning project Samar Ben Slimene Abstract This paper proposes to define the resources used in the implementation of a strategic scanning system in Tunisian industrial companies. It is based on an in-depth study of the resources allocated for the operation of the strategic scanning system through research based on an inductive approach that lasted several months. We have been able to identify an inadequacy between the available resources and the real needs, which can lead to the dysfunction and even to the abandonment of the anticipatory strategic scanning. Key words: Real needs, Resources, Strategic scanning.