Intelligence Deliverables: Dedicated Experts - Knowledge of the Operating Environment - Targeted Research - What has happened, is happening and will happen - Understanding of the Threats, Risks and Opportunities - Courses of Action identified
The exploitation of intelligence to support business: Hard Resilience - Operational Planning and Decision-making - Soft Resilience - Strategic Planning and Decision-making
The four stages of the Intelligence Cycle: Direction - Collection - Analysis and Assessment - Dissemination
We are going to start, if that is okay with you, with the premise that we are talking about someone else, and not ourselves. We are reasonable and objective people, but let us examine some of those other poor souls out there who don’t see things as clearly as we do. Image courtesy [...]
You may have noticed that there is an awful lot of information out there. Some of it pertinent to what we are doing, some of it correct, but much that is neither of those two things. But how does a business sift through all the available information to come to a real understanding as to [...]
How can it be that we see the world so differently? Even when we are on the same team, working for the same people and aiming for the same objectives, we can witness the very same event, but come away with a different interpretation of what just happened. This is described by Sir John Lubbock [...]
It is a fact that most intelligence work is not that glamorous, and intelligence analysts will only occasionally get to deliver dynamic assessments to the management board, pull people out of far-flung places in the nick of time or forestall the next crisis. This may come as something of a shock to those intending to [...]
Intelligence is one of those peculiar terms with different connotations depending on your particular experience or standpoint. Most definitely intelligence in certain circles has sinister undertones, perhaps accompanied by the view that it should be restricted to military and government work only. Whilst information, as an expression, is often used interchangeably with intelligence and can [...]
Can anything be more fascinating than knowing how and why we think in the way we do. There have been many illuminating books and articles on this subject by some brilliant people. The human mind is amazing, but it does have limitations (hey tell me about it) and sometimes does some surprising things. What interests [...]
Doctrine is never the most exciting of subjects, but spare me a few moments and let me justify your time. I know there are many with the view that intelligence work is more about the art of common sense than a science of deduction. There are indeed people in the intelligence business who do not [...]
