Help us map the market for business and competitor intelligence

Author: Julia Hordle
TFPL Intelligent Resources, Director - Corporate Intelligence Recruitment

Joining up with TFPL doesn’t mean the old “Intelligent Resources” team has lost its zeal for developing the market for skills in Intelligence disciplines. Far from it, the TFPL offering has diversified since we joined up last year. This has broadened the choice of roles in the TFPL recruitment portfolio for people with strong commercial and information/research/analytical skills.

Ivan (Radulovic) and I have been contributing  to the UK-CIF board and panel since a group of passionate practitioners decided to breathe bit more life into the CI forum in the UK, and not be quite so reliant on the US administration of SCIP. In particular, we are interested in mapping the communities of people in the UK with an interest in Intelligence.

In our Corporate Intelligence recruitment team, we already know that there is vibrant demand for people with the right mix of skills and experience for collection and communication of commercial intelligence, and more specifically, demand for people with the ability to see significance and steer strategic thinking. Practitioners exist within “pure” Consulting and Strategy roles, exist in Sales and Business pursuit, in Procurement/sourcing and in investment and advisory businesses. What is your interest? I’d love to know…

HOW YOU COULD PARTICIPATE:

NEXT EVENT:   The UK Competitive Intelligence Forum will be hosting its forthcoming networking event on 10th June around the theme of career planning. (please look out for event details nearer the time)

Market research for UK CIF:   HOW WELL DO WE KNOW OURSELVES?

To enrich the event in June we are undertaking some classic market research to obtain a foundation of understanding with respect to:

• How practitioners entered the discipline
• Their existing trials and tribulations, perception, value measurement, focus
• How practitioners will evolve

It will help us all to know the emerging market for skills in the UK better than we do at present – we are hoping to provide a hub of information and interest for the UK community.

Please help us all by completing the survey - It will only take 10 minutes and every recipient will receive a summary of the results, from UK CIF. 

Take the Survey 'Intelligent Intelligence Career Planning'

As of today, 28/04/2010, we have already had an encouraging response, but your input will help make sure what we get is an accurate and balanced overall picture. Please do join in.

For my sins, I’m also involved in planning the event on June 10^th and would be delighted to hear from anyone who would have an interest in speaking or joining a panel for debate, or providing some sponsorship to UK CIF. Please get in touch as soon as you can. I’m looking forward to hearing from you!