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
The necessity to safeguard commercial assets, information and reputation is increasingly at the forefront of our minds, driven hard by the media making much of poor corporate decision-making and planning. The world has changed, and it is ever more difficult to concentrate on the business of business; the mantra of just securing the bottom line [...]
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 good, some not so good and much that is, well… wrong. Hopefully most people would agree with the premise that good decisions are based on good information, and that the most relevant and accurate information will lead to [...]
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 [...]
The ability to make sensible decisions in business is central, with clear implications for a company’s reputation, profit, productivity and sustainability. Decisions require a clear objective and a thorough understanding so that the decision-maker can view the issue at hand in context and be able to identify available options. So armed, thoughts can then focus [...]
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 [...]
