Vernon Prior's "Language of Business Intelligence" Glossary

With Vernon's friendly permission the Swiss Competitive Intelligence Association provides its members and the public with the "Language of Business Intelligence" Glossary.

Download of the "Language of Business Intelligence" Glossary.

With more than forty years’ experience in intelligence operations and knowledge management, Vernon Prior (working as Prior Knowledge) is a leading practitioner in the field. He has presented competitive intelligence and knowledge management seminars and workshops in many countries, including Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates.

Vernon currently conducts seminars and workshops for several leading training companies. He has worked with Bond, Deakin, Monash, and RMIT Universities; the Singapore, Malaysian and Australian Institutes of Management; the College of International Business; the Institute for International Research; the International Quality and Productivity Centre; the CEO Institute; International Enterprise Singapore; the Australian Trade Commission; the Sarawak Economic Development Corporation; the ASEAN-EC Management Centre (Brunei); the Singapore Ministry of Defence; Etisalat Academy (Dubai); the Queensland Department of State Development & Innovation; and with many major companies (who prefer not to be identified) on competitive intelligence and knowledge management programmes.

A prolific author, his book, Smart company: finding and managing business intelligence (now out of print), describes how to manage intelligence for competitive advantage. He has had more than 200 articles published internationally, in newspapers, journals, magazines, and on the Internet. Vernon’s comprehensive glossary of terms used in intelligence and knowledge management is widely recognized as an authoritative work in this field and is routinely consulted and cited by fellow specialists. It is available online at the website of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) at www.scip.org under Resources: Language of BI, on the Knowledge Board website at www.knowledgeboard.com under Knowledge Bank: Library, as well as (more conveniently) at: www.markintell.com and www.quantum3.co.za. Two generally useful articles, Introduction to Competitive Intelligence and DIY Detection: Competitive Intelligence for SMEs, can be found at www.freepint.com/issues/050106.htm and at www.freepint.com/issues/090807.htm, respectively.

Vernon has a post-graduate Diploma in Librarianship and Information Science (DipLib), is a Fellow of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, and Founder of the Society of Knowledge and Competitive Intelligence Professionals Australia (SCIPAust). Vernon is also a very grateful member of the Caterpillar Club.