Specialised Masters (MS) in Competitive Intelligence & Knowledge Management
SKEMA Business School (ESC Lille & CERAM), Sophia Antipolis, France (Equis Accredited).
Scientific Director: Dr. Franck Bulinge
Sponsor of the Promotion: Mr. Alain Juillet (Govt. Envoy for French Competitive Intelligence)
Graduation Year Date: 2007

Subjects (in alphabetical order):

• Advanced Data Mining using Basic Tools (Word; Excel; Access)
• Analysis:
  • Cognitive Biases
  • Competitive Analytics
  • Heuristic Analysis
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Qualitative Analysis
  • Source Evaluation
  • Strategic Analysis
  • Tactical Analysis
  • Textual Content & Semantics
  • Trend Analysis
• Business Intelligence
• Case Studies
• Change Management
• Competitive Intelligence Business Law
• Crisis Recovery
• Economics
• Field Crisis Management
• Geopolitics
• Intelligence gathering & Elicitation
• Internet Search Methodology
• Influence Management
• Information Overload Management
• Information Research Planning
• Information Theory
• Information Systems & Decision Taking
• Information Warfare
• Knowledge Management
  • Complexity Management
  • Processes
  • Psychology
  • Tools
• Lobbying
• Management under High Level of Uncertainty
• Mapping
  • Heuristic
  • Human Networks
  • Information Correlation
  • Organisational
  • Planning
  • Strategic
  • Structures
• Marketing
• Negotiating with China
• Patent Intelligence / Analysis
• Process Evaluation and Streamlining
• Project Management (including Gantt & Pert charts etc.)
• Psychology
  • Behaviour Psychology
  • Group Psychology
  • Neuro-linguistic Programming
  • Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
  • Source Profiling / MBTI etc.
• Risk Assessment, Analysis and Management
• Rumour Management (Offense and Defense)
• Strategic Networking
• Strategy (SWOT, PESTEL, Porter, Strategic Groups, Positioning, Forecasting etc.)
• Supply Chain Management
• War Room
• Web Metrics

Placement at AIRBUS SAS (April 2007 - end September 2007)
Strategy Customer Services HQ - Toulouse-Blagnac, France

I, along with another colleague, worked with the Head of Strategy for Customer Services on several highly confidential projects.

Tasks included Merger & Acquisition Analysis; Strategic Analysis; Summarising Intelligence; Analysis of Internal processes; Defining 20 year Technology Strategic Plan for Customer Services.
Final reports included several Process & Structural Maps, as well as several roadmaps for the future.

It is also at Airbus that I learned about Lean Manufacturing Processes and had a glimpse of Six Sigma Black Belt Processes, although I had no time to take the Master Black Belt Course.

In parallel, I wrote a Thesis entitled: "Analytical Process in a Large International Group". This cannot be published as it is marked Confidential.

The current economic climate in Aviation being what it is, Airbus's cost-reducing Power8 plan had to be followed and no permanent position was either politically nor economically possible for me. However, I hope that the company will be able to fully exploit the tools and suggestions I have attempted to bring forth in their future decisional processes. I wish the company every success in the future.