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We are AIIP: I’m a Competitive Intelligence Consultant

In your bio, you describe yourself as a Competitive Intelligence Consultant. Briefly, what is competitive intelligence (CI), and what does a CI consultant do?

CI involves gathering and analyzing information about a company’s industry, business environment, competitors, and products, with the goal of having the findings direct its future strategy. A CI consultant supports clients with CI research and advisory services. I answer questions about a company’s external environment and likely future actions; typical examples include:

We Are AIIP: I’m a KOS Navigation Guide

By Eric Ziecker

You describe yourself as a Knowledge Organization System (KOS) navigation guide. Briefly, what does a KOS navigation guide do?

A KOS navigator applies information structure and classification to the data in a database so that clients spend less time looking for information and more time using it.

From Big Business to Solopreneur: A Success Story

By Kelly Berry

Starting Off

Like all good infopreneur stories, Janene Liston’s starts in the middle: after a successful career working for top international companies, she was burned out and decided to step back from the corporate world to heal and reassess. This was her opportunity to figure out what she really wanted to do. Like other solopreneurs, she found standing at the edge of her own new business to be scary and exciting.

Online training: what I learned through lockdown

By Elizabeth Hutchinson

In my school librarian background, professional development was neither valued nor recognized, so it may be surprising that my career is now based on providing training for the very type of professional I used to be. If your place of employment doesn’t recognize or value your professional development, and your opportunity for upward mobility is minimal, why would you ever bother?

We Are AIIP: I’m a Nonprofit Prospect Researcher

By Roger Magnus

In your bio, you describe yourself as a Nonprofit Prospect Researcher. Briefly, what does a prospect researcher do?

Prospect researchers assist nonprofits by providing targeted intelligence on donors and foundations. These efforts ultimately should help a nonprofit increase its funding.

We Are AIIP: I’m a DEI Metadata Consultant

By Sharon Mizota

In your bio, you describe yourself as a DEI metadata consultant. What is it that DEI metadata consultants do?

We Are AIIP: I’m a Private Investigator

By Victoria Balzarini

Following is the first in our We Are AIIP series, which offers a glimpse into the different kinds of work our members do.

Asking the Right Questions to Get to the Right Question

By Denise Carter

Key to delivering a quality project for a client is making sure that I am answering the right question. That isn’t always as straightforward as it seems. Experience has taught me that the initial question the client asks is often not the one they really need answering.