{"id":3110,"date":"2025-12-14T19:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adriq.wp.vortexdev.com\/?post_type=expert&#038;p=3110"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:56:55","slug":"richard-legendre","status":"publish","type":"expert","link":"https:\/\/adriq.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/network\/experts\/richard-legendre\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Legendre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Specialized services in technology\/competitive intelligence and industrial information brokerage. As an intelligence consultant, services can take the form of coaching for an organization&#8217;s intelligence unit to systematize the existing organic intelligence gathering processes within any company. Intervention can also be limited to one or more actions within a knowledge management process, also known as intelligence gathering or monitoring, such as defining intelligence targets, inventorying information sources useful to the company, and planning actions related to information gathering, sorting\/classification, analysis, and synthesis. As an information broker, the consultant conducts professional information searches on an ad hoc basis, providing access to a range of specialized private databases and information sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<section class=\"block-accordions-group aligndefault\">\n    <div class=\"accordion-container\">\n    \n<div id=\"expertise\" class=\"accordion ac\">\n  <div class=\"accordion__accordion\">\n    <button class=\"accordion__header-row accordion-toggle ac-header ac-trigger\">\n      <p class=\"accordion__header__title\">        Expertise      <\/p>      <span class=\"accordion__header__icon\" role=\"presentation\">\n        <span class=\"plus\"><\/span>\n      <\/span>\n    <\/button>\n    <div class=\"accordion__sub-rows wysiwyg ac-panel\">\n      \n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Strategic monitoring, priority areas, and business intelligence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Patents, trademarks, and licenses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Analysis and valuation of business data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Technological\/competitive monitoring<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Industrial information\/intellectual property (patents, trademarks (as information sources))<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Internet (how to search to find better) specialized information sources (directories, associations, periodicals, conference summaries, trade fairs, market research, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div id=\"examples-of-mandates\" class=\"accordion ac\">\n  <div class=\"accordion__accordion\">\n    <button class=\"accordion__header-row accordion-toggle ac-header ac-trigger\">\n      <p class=\"accordion__header__title\">        Examples of mandates      <\/p>      <span class=\"accordion__header__icon\" role=\"presentation\">\n        <span class=\"plus\"><\/span>\n      <\/span>\n    <\/button>\n    <div class=\"accordion__sub-rows wysiwyg ac-panel\">\n      \n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Support for a technology and competitive intelligence unit (coaching)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Basic training to improve online search and find solutions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monitoring of patent and trademark portfolios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ad hoc information research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exploration of opportunities to transform industrial waste into inputs for another manufacturing company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Technical specifications for electronic thermostats (energy savings)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Search for North American suppliers of a bucket destacking device<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inventory of suppliers and contractors specializing in mechanics, electricity, piping, and industrial heat exchangers for foreign investors considering the establishment of a factory in Quebec<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Search for Quebec subcontractors for gearboxes for an American manufacturer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seeking opportunities to repurpose company waste by transferring it to other companies in different sectors, where this waste can become a valuable resource.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":897,"template":"","expert-specialisation":[86,83,75],"class_list":["post-3110","expert","type-expert","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expert-specialisation-intellectual-property-compliance","expert-specialisation-strategic-supply-chain-management","expert-specialisation-vision-strategy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriq.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expert\/3110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriq.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expert"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriq.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/expert"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriq.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriq.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"expert-specialisation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriq.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expert-specialisation?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}