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Lindy Smart, M.S.

Executive Director, Intelligence Studies

Contact Information

OFFICE: CAE 306
PHONE: 814-824-3024

Education

  • M.S. Applied Intelligence, 管家婆心水论坛 University 聽
  • B.A. English, 管家婆心水论坛 University
  • A.S. Criminal al Justice. 管家婆心水论坛 North East聽

Starting her career at Target, Lindy built the eCommerce Fraud investigations program and served as a SME on emerging omnichannel and mobile fraud schemes. After standing up that function, Lindy moved to a newly created role to develop Strategic Risk under Enterprise Risk Management, working closely with Risk Leadership and developing content for the Board of Directors. Lindy then joined Aurora WDC, leading the Intelligence Systems team and developing key indicators for clients; This allowed her to gain a broader understanding of the application of competitive intelligence across multiple industries. Lindy re-joined Target to develop the Competitive Intelligence function in Corporate Strategy, working across the enterprise to support other insights functions and supports Target鈥檚 C-Suite with competitive wargames, deliverables, and facilitated discussions.聽

About Ms. Smart
    • Strategic Intelligence 聽
    • Thesis Seminar聽
    • Convergence of indicators across fields of intelligence聽
    • Corporate intelligence聽
    • Structure methods
    • Competitive Intelligence Fellows
    • Strategic Consortium of Intelligence Professionals
    • 鈥淭riangulating data to detect omnichannel gift card fraud,鈥 NCFTA, 2014.
    • 鈥淩etail disruption,鈥 SCIP, 2017. 聽
    • 鈥淎pplication of trend analysis workshop,鈥 Aurora WDC RECONVERGE, 2019. 聽
    • 鈥淟everaging CI Tactics to Develop a Strategic Intelligence Program,鈥 SCIP, 2020. 聽
    • 鈥淩ole of data analytics in intelligence,鈥 Alfred State University, 2021. 聽
    • 鈥淏uilding a Hierarchy of Deliverables,鈥 Chapter in 鈥淎 Practical Guide to Competitive Intelligence, 2022. 聽
    • 鈥淐I鈥檚 Fork in the Road,鈥 SCIP, 2023.聽
    • Inducted into CI Fellows, 2021聽