Department of Business Management

Prof Nisha Sewdass

College of Economic and Management Sciences
School of Management Sciences
Department: Business Management
Professor
Tel: 012 429 2795
E-mail: sewdan@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • B.Bibl Library & information Science (Unisa)
  • Hons B.Bibl Library & Information Science (Unisa
  • MBA General Management (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK)
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Competitive Intelligence (University of Pretoria)
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Sense and Decision making (University of Pretoria)
  • MInf Information Science (Unisa)
  • DPhil Competitive Intelligence (University of Pretoria)

NRF Rating

C2

Currently teaching

  • M&D supervision Strategic and competitive Intelligence
  • M&D supervision Strategy-as-Practice
  • HRBUS 83 – Honours Research Project in Business Management - Moderator

Fields of academic interests

  • The ethical use of AI in Competitive Intelligence and research.
  • Strategy & Competitive Intelligence for the service sector
  • Social media and collective intelligence
  • Global competitiveness & environmental scanning.
  • Intelligence analysis, predictive analytics.

Field of Specialisation

  • Strategic and Competitive Intelligence
  • Innovation and Competitive Intelligence
  • Insight, foresight, future studies
  • Economic Intelligence and development in Africa
  • Social Media Intelligence

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • Strategic Consortium of Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) –Member, Past Member of the Board of Directors, Global Advisory Committee Member.
  • Inducted into International Intelligence Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows 2018
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the Economic Intelligence Academy in France (Economic Intelligence Academy of France)
  • Member of the Forum of African Associations of Economic Intelligence (FAAEI)- Morocco
  • Chairperson for the Strategic Consortium of Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) Intelligence Center of Excellence (ICoE) in South -East Africa.

Projects

  • Department of Science and Technology, National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI) Unisa representative - Foresight project.
  • Unisa Research Integrity Ambassador – Ethics advisor and training.