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Competitive Intelligence (CI), as defined by the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), is a systematic and ethical program for gathering, analyzing, and managing external information that can affect an organization’s plans, decisions, and operations. Students learn to apply the CI process and CI-related methodologies, techniques, and tools to better analyze an organization’s current and future competitive position. Students apply analytical and socio-technical techniques to improve organizational decision making as related to CI, and gain an understanding of the issues related to the collection, analysis, and management of external information. (2 credits)