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Professional Certificate · Bachelor's level · CPP-09
Setting Up a Monitoring and Intelligence System
For: Communication officers, documentation officers, research and monitoring officers, and executive assistants in public and private organisations.
Learning outcomes
- Develop a monitoring strategy suited to one's professional environment.
- Design a monitoring system: scope, sources, frequency, deliverables.
- Conduct competitive intelligence, or sector, regulatory or reputation monitoring.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Monitoring as a permanent system that produces decisions; competitive intelligence and sector, regulatory and reputation monitoring. |
| Week 2 | Designing a system: scope, frequency, deliverables. |
| Week 3 | Searching for and selecting sources; organising collection according to the chosen scope. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: monitoring system for a fictitious organisation or, with its written consent, for the learner's organisation. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): monitoring system for a fictitious organisation or, with its written consent, for the learner's organisation; online knowledge-check quiz (30%). No private individual is implicated in reputation monitoring.
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Capitalising on Monitoring Output
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-09C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Filing plan and naming rules.
- Document life cycle of monitoring information.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Regular practice of online information searching; professional experience assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Bachelor's degree in Communication Project Management, within a period set by the certificate regulations.