Desenvolvimento e aplicação de um método para o mapeamento de competências em inteligência competitiva.

Abstract

With the aim of contributing for the increase of the efficiency and effectiveness of the units of Competitive Intelligence (IC) in the ambit of the people's administration, the present research has as general objective to develop a systematic procedure to map knowledge, abilities and attitudes for IC professionals, based on the model of Administration of People for Competencies (APC). The research method that was adopted was the research-action and the application was carried out within the Center for Information Technology in Materials (NIT/Materiais) of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), specialized in accomplishing IC projects. The obtained results were: the identification of a group of referential competencies for IC professionals; the creation of a glossary of attributes of IC competencies (Knowledge, Abilities and Attitudes); the development of the tool Levantamento de Atributos, for the collection of information seeking the definition of the organizational competencies; and the formalization of the profile of competencies for the IC professionals of the studied organization. Starting from the obtained results and of the discussion raised around the thematic of the competencies in IC, it was possible to conclude that the APC model can contribute to the creation and development of more efficient and effective IC teams, in a process of continuous improvement.