The intelligence analyst as epistemologist
Haven’t blogged much about my other class (KM/LIS 5553: Competitive Intelligence), but now that it is finished and grades are in, I have to say that this too was an excellent group of thinkers and doers. As mentioned in an earlier post, everybody brought a lot to the party, in terms of contributing information and news relevant to their “briefing topics,” both national and international. Pretty high standard of final projects recommending competitive intelligence strategies for their target firms, including several that could definitely be considered “professional grade.” All this despite the fact that at least half the class were probably enrolled only because their preferred course had been unexpectedly cancelled!
Fair warning for anyone considering taking this class in future: it isn’t all just fun and guessing games trying to find clues about the strategy of some rival firm for McDonald’s or Merck Vaccines: the final included questions on how people actually used concepts from Matthew Herbert’s “The intelligence analyst as epistemologist” during the implementation of that final project… and they did!
