Competitive intelligence

Facilitator profile:

A leading practitioner with more than 30 years? experience in intelligence operations and knowledge management, he currently conducts regular seminars with the Singapore Institute of Management and with several leading training providers throughout Asia and the Middle East. He has worked with Bond, Deakin, Monash, and RMIT Universities; the College of International Business; the Institute for International Research; the International Quality and Productivity Centre; the CEO Institute; International Enterprise Singapore; the Australian Trade Commission; the Sarawak Economic Development Corporation; the ASEAN-EC Management Centre (Brunei); the Singapore Ministry of Defence; Etisalat Academy (Dubai); the Queensland Department of State Development & Innovation; and with many major companies (who prefer not to be identified).

His book, Smart company: finding and managing business intelligence, describes how to manage intelligence for competitive advantage. His comprehensive glossary of approximately 500 terms used in intelligence and knowledge management, The Language of Business Intelligence, is available online under the auspices of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) at www.scip.org under CI Resources: Language of BI. The glossary is also available on the European Knowledge Board website.

He has a post-graduate Diploma in Librarianship and Information Science (DipLib), is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, manufactures and commerce (FRSA), a Fellow of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (FSCIP), a member of the Knowledge Board, a member of the SCIP International Editorial Board, and Founder of the Society of Knowledge and Competitive Intelligence Professionals Australia (SCIPAust). He is the recipient of a SCIP Fellow?s Award. He is also a member of the Caterpillar Club.

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The most important distinguishing feature of successful companies is the extent to which they respond to the external environment. They find out what is going on, decide what it means, and do something about it. This helps them to find business opportunities and new markets, anticipate and minimise risk, make rational decisions, innovate, improve their strategic planning, and take action before their competitors.

He enables you to establish and manage an effective competitive intelligence operation in your own organisation. He will provide you with practical tools and techniques that will allow you to:

? determine your information needs;
? set up an intelligence network;
? gather information from a wide variety of sources using legal and ethical techniques;
? safeguard your company?s secrets (three-day);
? analyse information and convert it into intelligence;
? improve your planning;
? create business opportunities;
? innovate (three-day)
? develop the most effective knowledge-management and information-retrieval tool;
? enhance your communications skills;
? produce briefings and reports that will stimulate executive response;
? set up and manage an effective competitive intelligence operation. 

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Practical tools and techniques needed to create, transfer, and manage knowledge throughout an organisation, with the emphasis on people and communication.

Topics covered include, how to:
? identify information needs;
? build a Community of Practice;
? take advantage of external information;
? safeguard company secrets;
? conduct basic analysis and create opportunities;
? manage innovation and change;
? establish a company intranet;
? compile a basic taxonomy for vocabulary control;
? improve company communication;
? encourage a learning and information-sharing culture;
? develop the most effective tool for sharing and managing knowledge;
? set up and manage an effective knowledge management operation. 

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