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Intelligence Discipline

Definition of strategic information

"Strategic Information is the information that company's management requires for setting objectives and achieving them successfully."

Martin Juarez-2008

Types of strategic information in an organization

There are three types of strategic information in any organization: of support to processes and to business or service continuity, of support to threat detection and management and finally of support to opportunities detection and management.

As a result there are different levels of strategic information management in big corporation.

Levels of Strategic Information Management

Intelligence as discipline

"Intelligence is a discipline destined to create, develop and introduce organizations, procedures, tools and systems for production and efficient management of strategic information in any organization."

Martín Juárez-2008

Intelligence is able to:

  • Motivate a decision, Guide or ensure a strategy.
  • Support planning and development of an operation.
  • Describe and supervise any real-world event.
  • Define and formulate warnings, references and indicators of performance.
  • Detect and pose a deficit or necessity.
  • Detect and manage a threat or an opportunity.
  • Check the application and efficiency of procedures, programs and directives.
  • Protect and audit the assets of the organization.
  • Ensure competitive, technological, economic and other advantages.
  • Control entities and principal actors in the organization’s domain of interest.
  • Delimit and describe a phenomenon.
  • Test a hypothesis.
  • Eliminate or put forth topics and assumptions.
  • Guide the elaboration of action plans.
  • Compare situations.
  • Establish and project oneself in new settings and markets.
  • Project and generate plausible future developments.
  • Argue legal issues.
  • Investigate different situations.
  • Etc.

What is Intelligence?

The INTELLIGENCE phenomenon has a bi-dimensional interpretation:

  • As a process, it represents mental activity systematically directed, via methodological and technological processes, toward the meaning of the phenomena occurring in a definite real-world domain.
  • As a product, it represents distilled and perishable information (in the form of reports), aimed at diminishing the uncertainties of the organization's management personnel.

What is the function of Intelligence?

Its main function is to counsel and support the company managers´ activity. Intelligence contributes and adds to each and every field differentiated from it.

Intelligence can:

  • Assists in monitoring organization's surroundings.
  • Detects and warns threats and opportunities.
  • Infers intentions, capacities and vulnerabilities of the key actors in the organization’s surroundings.
  • Reduces uncertainties in the decision-making process.
  • Guarantees corporate strategy.
  • Supports operations in the organization.
  • Projects possible future developments and directs them toward desirable scenarios.

The Intelligence discipline is transferable to an organization through definition and deployment of INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS