CI CURRICULUM BUILDER
Design a rigorous Competitive Intelligence course — or a corporate CI training programme — in minutes, built on the empirically validated CI Body of Knowledge.
What it is
The CI Curriculum Builder is the operational output of the Council of CI Fellows – Education Committee's mission to establish universal educational standards for Competitive Intelligence. It turns the CI Body of Knowledge (BoK) into ready-to-teach curricula and corporate training programs — in seconds, with reproducible structure.
Describe your course in plain language — audience, duration, focus. A deterministic engine selects the right topics from the 143-concept BoK and applies the CI Fellows-prescribed Bloom's levels for your audience, guaranteeing reproducible coverage. An LLM then drafts the narrative around that fixed structure: same request, same curriculum, every time.
Registration takes two minutes. Educators, practitioners, universities, and companies welcome.Collective Excellence
Design teaching curricula aligned to standards — a Scholarly Syllabus built on Understanding by Design, with instructor and student-facing versions.Educators
Produce structured in-house training programs built on ADDIE, Kirkpatrick's Four Levels, and Mager performance objectives.L&D & Organisations
Researchers
A validated, citable base for CI education research and development.
A foundation for thought leadership, certification, and professional standards worldwide.The CI Profession
The science underneath
Built on the 5Ps model of Competitive Intelligence (Madureira et al., 2021).
Empirically validated by 61 experts across five continents(Madureira et al., 2023).
Every curriculum covers the five dimensions of CI:
PURPOSE →
PURVIEW →
PRACTICE→
PROCESS →
PRODUCT →
Foundational grounding: The 5Ps CI Model, the 143-concept CI Body of Knowledge, Bloom's Taxonomy, Understanding by Design (Wiggins & McTighe), Kirkpatrick's Four Levels, and Mager Performance Objectives — integrated in one tool.
How to use it properly
This is a structured starting point.
Sequencing, classroom activities, and assessment specifics require instructional adaptation to your context and learner cohort.
Guidance,
not a finished syllabus
The Builder provides guidance — it does not produce a turn-key syllabus.
Adapt the topics, sequencing, and hours to your course, your learners, and your time budget.
The generated duration is a recommendation: if it exceeds the time you have, keep the core topics and trim the rest.The teaching story
— the 5Ps arc
Every generated curriculum is sequenced as a story:
* start with the Why (Purpose — why CI exists and what it delivers),
* establish the Where (Purview — the competitive environment being watched),
* then move through Practice (how the CI function is organised),
* Process (the 8-stage CI cycle),
* and close with the Product (the intelligence outputs).
Whatever your course length, cover all five dimensions — even if one gets five minutes and another gets ten hours.The BoK Explorer
is your glossary
Every topic in a generated curriculum is drawn from the 143-concept CI Body of Knowledge.
Full definitions, hierarchy, and references live in the Cuuriculum Builder BoK Explorer (tab) — use it as the canonical glossary while you build your course.Bloom's Taxonomy — a 60-second primer
LEVEL → WHAT IT MEANS IN CI TERMS
1 - REMEMBER → Recall CI facts and basic concepts (define, list, identify)
2 - UNDERSTAND → Explain CI ideas and concepts (classify, describe, discuss)
3 - APPLY → Use CI knowledge in new situations (execute, implement, demonstrate)
4 - ANALYSE → Draw connections among CI evidence (differentiate, examine, test)
5 - EVALUATE → Justify an intelligence judgement or decision (appraise, critique, defend)
5 - CREATE → Produce new or original CI work (design, formulate, develop)
Bloom's levels are prescribed by the CI Fellows per audience type — the same concept is taught at a lower cognitive level for a certificate cohort than for a doctoral one. That is why the level shown for each topic changes with the audience you select.
Scope of this version
This version covers CI Science globally.
More specific methodologies and disciplines — such as Business War Games and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) — will be covered in the next iteration.Build your first CI curriculum today
Free for the Competitive Intelligence community.
Two output families — Scholarly Syllabus and Corporate Learning Programme — in Word and PDF.
The Council of CI Fellows – Education Committee
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Luis MADUREIRA
EDUCATION COMMITTEE CHAIR
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Amir FLEISCHMAN
PROJECT CHAMPION & CIF PRESIDENT
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Arjan SINGH
PROJECT MEMBER
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Eugene OUTLER
PROJECT MEMBER (AoP)
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John E. PRESCOTT
PROJECT MEMBER
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Nisha SEWDASS
PROJECT MEMBER
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Tom TAO
PAST CHAIR | PROJET MEMBER
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