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Intelligence Systems
What is an Intelligence system?
It is a complex organization of persons, methods, procedures and technologies which enable to execute and operate a cycle or a model of intelligence established to support one or various client organizations.
What does Intelligence systems do?
Intelligence systems monitors, analyses and emits conclusions about what is happening or might happen in a definite real-world domain of interest.
The final product of intelligence system is a set of planned or requested reports permitting those responsible to lead department, company, state, any organization in general, to reduce their uncertainties and giving support to their daily, short- term, medium-term and long-term decisions and actions.
Intelligence socio-technical systems
Intelligence cell, department, area or organization are socio-technical intelligence systems, made up of the coherently integrated systems on a basis of previously defined doctrine model and the deployment plan developed according to the organization's objectives.
What is not considered intelligence system?
Intelligence system can not be assimilated to the following:
- Documents management.
- Information search through the Internet (Google, Yahoo, etc).
- Data summarization and visualization (Business Intelligence).
- Experts´ opinions on the topics.
- Investigation agency.
- Software package.
- Computer system.
- Information portal.
Definition and implantation of intelligence systems goes far beyond vague methodological reasoning and endogamic technological developments which offer partial solutions without proposing a holistic model of efficient and global system functioning.
Example of an intelligence system operation
General description:
General Director is carrying on corporate negotiations with another entity (Company A)
and is planning a meeting with its chief executives in two weeks time.
General Director asks the intelligence cell for support using on-line facilities or a
personal meeting with an assigned analyst, outlines what he needs to know in a 5WHC
format:
• WHO: General Director
• WHAT: Intelligence support in view of the forthcoming negotiations X with the company A.
• WHERE: Through the active system of reports reception and later in a face-to-face meeting
for detailed explanation.
• WHEN: From that moment on till the day before the planned meeting.
• WHY: Learn organization’s structure and managers’ profiles; estimate intentions, capacities
and specific vulnerabilities,
immediately related to the objectives of the negotiation.
• HOW: In daily monitoring and surveillance reports, strategic intelligence report and
analytical dossier two days before
the planned meeting.
The analyst validates the 5WHC form, asks for the cell’s head validation and launches the
intelligence project in the system, classifies it and assigns proper methods and
tools.
1. In collaboration with the cell’s head, the analyst defines, validates and designs the
“Intelligence Package” to be elaborated and delivered to the client. This
includes:
- Electronic profile of the organization’s structure (A).
(Daily status reports and their daily delivery). - Electronic profiles of the chief executives in the organization
A involved in the negotiation process.
(Daily status reports and their daily delivery). - Warnings, monitoring and surveillance reports, information notes on the
requested electronic profiles.
(Daily status reports and their daily delivery). - An analytical dossier with hypotheses concerning the process of
negotiations.
(Dissemination and delivery four days before the agreed meeting date). - A strategic intelligence report on the evaluation of intentions, capacities,
possible operation lines, and specific vulnerabilities of the organization A
and its managers.
(Distribution and delivery two days before the agreed meeting date).
2. Development of the required information collection from multiple sources, and
evaluation of their reliability.
3. Detection of evidences contained in the obtained data; application of adequate
analysis techniques and tools, elaboration of conclusions and preparation of reports.
4. Reports dissemination according to the "Intelligence Package" designed
for the occasion; analysis of informative, decision – making and operational superiority.