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 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 [...]
There are three key aspects to successful intelligence operations...being able to ascertain what it is you need to know, having a plan to bring together that information and finally turning the information into actionable intelligence. All of these three activities come at a cost and this article seeks to examine these costs to suggest a [...]
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 [...]
What is it we believe and why? A pretty big question without a pint of good ale to hand maybe, but nevertheless relevant given all of the information of which we are in receipt every day. Of course, that we have such flows of information today is amazing, and something we could not have imagined [...]
A great deal of effort is expended looking into the past at unexpected events, under-performance, operational failures and so on. This is just our natural human instinct to seek understanding of what has happened, particularly if it was a damaging incident. Many of you will recognise that you are stuck in a system focussed on [...]
Few would be willing to admit to that of their own company perhaps, but we are often happy to recognise this condition in our competitors or other companies. I wonder though if we are being completely honest about our own operations and decision-making. Image by courtesy of http://onewaystock.com/ For instance, it is [...]
