Competitive intelligence teaching to support the pursuit of professional success of library and information science students

Abstract

The increasing complexity of our informational reality demands information professionals with diverse competences, several of which coincide with those required for the exercise of Competitive Intelligence (CI). Since such competences are based on competence attributes (Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes-KSA), the development of these attributes provides the basis for many of the competences needed by the modern information professional. Thus, the present work analyzes the results of a teaching process in CI based on active methodologies, regarding the students' learning in different competence attributes and their importance for the professional success idealized by the students. As for the methodology, this research is exploratory and its method is Action Research. The results indicate: 1) the good performance of the teaching process regarding the learning of competence attributes; 2) that the attributes worked have, in the opinion of the students themselves, great importance for the achievement of the professional success they aim for. In conclusion, it is believed that there are in the teaching process described many components that can be replicated in other Bachelors of Library and Information Science to generate similar levels of learning gain and leverage the professional success of our graduates.