Siedlce, Poland

Competitive Intelligence
(field of studies: National Security)

Master's
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⇑Competitive Intelligence at UwS

Field of studies: National Security
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: security services
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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University website: www.uws.edu.pl/en/

⇑Test: Is Competitive Intelligence the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A rival company suddenly lowers prices. How would you work out what they’re planning?

2. How do you feel about sorting through large amounts of scattered information to find what really matters?

3. You discover that a source could be obtained in a legally or ethically doubtful way. What do you do?

4. How do you feel about analytical frameworks such as SWOT, Porter’s five forces or scenario planning?

5. Management needs a one-page briefing on a competitor’s new product by tomorrow. How do you react?

6. Which task would you choose?

7. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll analyse cases with students from many countries. How do you see that?

8. How do you feel about protecting your own organisation’s information from competitors?

9. Which future role sounds most like you?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Competitive Intelligence?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in many different ways to include the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving. It can be more generally described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
Intelligence
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a château does to its owner.
Nicolas Chamfort, Reflections, D. Parmée, trans. (London: 2003) #68
Intelligence
For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."
Thomas Carlyle, Varnhagen Von Ense's Memoirs, London and Westminster Review (1838).
Intelligence
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson, Speech to the National Press Club (20 March 1914).
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