Duration / Time
180 Hours / Post-Employment
ECTS
29 ECTS
Scientific Coordination
Dr. Paulo Macedo
Executive Coordination
Dr. António Jorge
Introduction
The intention of this course, the appropriate parameters arising from the Bologna Declaration, guide students in order to develop and achieve a level of competence consistent with the requirements of learning and training and independent, as well as the professionalization integral, relating the important tasks afetas to today’s society and its needs.
The information society and the knowledge that we live inundate us every day with an immense amount of information that, if not minimally analyzed, can lead us into errors of judgment, delay or prevent decision-making processes in a timely or eventually lead us to make decisions less correct for a given situation. What is true for the individual is also true, a fortiori, to the business world where decision making, less informed or out of season, can be extremely hazardous consequences to the organization’s success. Given that information, analyzed and treated, is one of the factors most relevant to the decision-making process, it was considered appropriate, similar to what some foreign higher education institutions carry out, accomplish this graduate, with objective of providing the knowledge necessary for formation of analysts who can work in the production of intelligence within the economic and competitive intelligence on private and / or public.
Objectives
It is intended with this Master, train professionals capable of working in production units of business intelligence and / or other organizations.
Competencies
At the end of this course participants will gain knowledge that will enable them to:
- Planning and managing projects obtaining information;
- Knowing the principles of acquisition and analysis methodologies;
- Learn how to protect the information;
- Having a broad knowledge of the current situation of the global competitive intelligence.
Recipients
Staff, Senior Technical Staff for Public Administration (national, regional, municipal), Entrepreneurs, Executives, Boards of Companies, Licensees and other interested parties who wish to obtain expertise in these areas.
| Units | Teachers | ECTS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Semester | ||||
| Fundamentals of intelligence | Victor Prata | 6 | ||
| Planning and project management for the production of intelligence | Paulo Almeida | 3 | ||
| Obtaining intelligence | Fernando Ramos | 3 | ||
| Principles of acquisition, processing and analysis of information | Sérgio Vieira da Silva | 3 | ||
| 2nd Semester | ||||
| Methodologies of Analysis | José Carochinho | 3 | ||
| Decision-making processes | António Freitas | 3 | ||
| Communication and information protection | Francisco Nobrea | 3 | ||
| Competitive Intelligence | Álvaro Oliveira | 3 | ||
| Seminars | ||||
| Seminars – Business Intelligence in the world – Africa | to designate | 0,5 | ||
| Seminars – Business Intelligence in the world – Asia | to designate | 0,5 | ||
| Seminars – Business Intelligence in the world – Europe | to designate | 0,5 | ||
| Seminars – Business Intelligence in the world – North America | to designate | 0,5 | ||
| Seminars – Business Intelligence in the world – South America | to designate | |||
