1. Define your classification axes

"I'm keeping watch like Monsieur Jourdain. Without knowing it.

Heresy.

Monitoring must be a systematized, organized process. Its aim is to move away from erratic, disorganized, one-off information feedback to a system that aims to optimize the coverage of information of interest and available to the company. In fact, the documentary organization of your monitoring system must be consistent with your needs, your monitoring themes and the structuring of the information available.

Your monitoring plan must have one objective: to enable you to easily find available information, and to organize your content as well as your monitored sources. There isn't just one possible classification plan, but rather a set of rules that will enable you to build it according to your imperatives and your world.

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