Babette Bensoussan is an author and

competitive intelligence Competitive intelligence (CI) is the process and forward-looking practices used in producing knowledge about the competitive environment to improve organizational performance. It involves the systematic collection and analysis of information from ...

specialist, who has written several books on competitive intelligence and analysis. She runs a

consulting firm A consulting firm or simply consultancy is a professional service firm that provides expertise and specialised labour for a fee, through the use of consultants. Consulting firms may have one employee or thousands; they may consult in a broad rang ...

based in Sydney, Australia, The MindShifts Group Pty. Ltd. Babette now lives with her husband on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.

Career

Bensoussan was a founder and vice-president for the

Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), formerly the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, is a global non-profit best practice sharing community for experts from industry, academia, government, and non-profits ...

(SCIP) in Australia, a member of the'' Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management'' and ''Competitive Intelligence Review'' editorial boards. She has taught

undergraduate Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-le ...

, MBA and executive courses on competitive analysis and intelligence at the Sydney Graduate School of Management and Bond University. Her work has also focused on

business model A business model describes how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value,''Business Model Generation'', Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Alan Smith, and 470 practitioners from 45 countries, self-published, 2010 in economic, soci ...

analysis, competitive positioning analysis, four corners analysis, and shadowing.

Works

* 2008 ''Analysis without Paralysis'', with

Craig Fleisher Craig S. Fleisher is a scholar, advisor and author who has written or edited several books on public affairs, business, and competitive intelligence and analysis. Before becoming Dean of the Business School at the College of Coastal Georgia, he w ...

(FT Press) * 2007 ''Business and Competitive Analysis: Effective Application of New and Classic Methods'', with Craig Fleisher (FT Press) * 2007 ''Staying Ahead of the Competition: How Firms Really Manage Their Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge—Evidence from a Decade of Rapid Change'', with C. Hall (World Scientific) * 2003 ''Strategic and Competitive Analysis: Methods and Techniques for Analyzing Business Competition'', with Craig Fleisher (Prentice Hall)

Awards

*1996 SCIP Fellows Award *2006 MGSM Alumni Award *2006 SCIP Meritorious Award

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bensoussan, Babette Bond University faculty Australian non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian people of Moroccan-Jewish descent Jewish Australian writers 20th-century Moroccan Jews University of Technology Sydney alumni