The MD QRO Global comments on the role of knowledge in future planning when setting up commercial operations in difficult environments. Download the article New Operating Environments and the Role of Information in Future Planning or visit the Fresh Business Thinking Website. Do you want to understand better the business dynamics in your sector? Are [...]
The MD of QRO Global comments on the importance of future planning in the context of mining operations in uncertain environments. Download the article here Future Planning in Uncertain Environments - Mining World August 2014 Do you want to understand better the business dynamics in your sector? Are you looking for options to drive forward [...]
The MD of QRO Global, Martyn Denton comments on what commercial intelligence can deliver in a global mining context. Download the article here Commercial Intelligence? - Mining World Do you want to understand better the business dynamics in your sector? Are you looking for options to drive forward your business in a challenging environment? To [...]
Let us clarify the relationship between classification, accuracy of information, reliability of source and the distribution of intelligence. There is often confusion over these four aspects of our work as many people are tempted to link them together. For example, I often hear the view that top secret information is, due to its high classification, [...]
A great deal of intelligence effort is expended looking into the past at unexpected events, security breaches, under-performance, operational failures and so on. This is a perfectly natural human instinct as we seek to understand what has happened, particularly if it is an adverse incident. We are often driven by a target-focussed system that demands [...]
Let me make the case for intelligence-led operations. I believe that direction, priorities, outcomes, resources and security need to be determined and coordinated by command decisions driven by quantified and assessed intelligence. Running around looking busy is an often used form of misguided reassurance that something useful is being done. How many press conferences do [...]
The intelligence cycle is a great piece of doctrine and one which has kept us, in the intelligence business, on the straight and narrow for so long. It has served us well and I'm sure will continue to do so into the future. There are elements of it though that need examination past the obvious. [...]
Is there a case within the Intelligence Cycle for a validation phase? I hear it argued that the Intelligence Cycle lacks depth due to its simplistic structure and its four basic stages of Direction, Collection, Processing and Dissemination. Others maintain that its simplicity is its strength as long as its employment is controlled and managed [...]
