Competitive Intelligence

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Educational Programmes

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 3, 4 module

Instructor

Calof, Jonathan L.

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is delivered to master students of The National Research University Higher School of Economics. The course length is 114 academic hours in total of which 32 hours are class room hours for lectures and seminars and 82 hours are devoted to self-study. The course introduces concepts and approaches to competitive intelligence/market insight as well as anticipatory systems. The course provides a solid foundation of theoretical and practical competitive intelligence strategies and processes as a way to enable both strategic and tactical decisions including innovation, Research and Development new market selection, and more. Several examples of decisions assisted by competitive intelligence for private sector, government, and non-government organizations are provided that demonstrate how open source information can be harnessed to better understand the external environment.