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What principle predominates the Interligare project?

The complex systems designer, Interligare president and founder, José Martín Juárez’s main objective involves transforming human organizations into socio-technical intelligent organizations.

What does the Interligare Group do?

The Interligare group has three main activities:

  1. It researches and designs Scientific Intelligence systems.
  2. It produces and transfers “Ingenios” (intelligent components) and Scientific Intelligence systems (computational, educational, methodological, and socio-technical) to its technological and knowledge partners though products, services and advanced platforms.
  3. It designs and manages strategic projects to transform organizations into intelligent organizations.

How is the Interligare Group defined and organized?

The Interligare Group is a private, scientific-technical complex system research, design and engineering organization, with a family business approach (trusted people) and a clear vocation for independence and a sense of ethics in its business relationships. It is organized into various companies and laboratories where the distinct tasks of innovation and exploitation of the resulting assets are carried out.

What is Scientific Intelligence?

Is a new scientific-technical discipline, founded and defined by Interligare, which has the objective of studying of Intelligence as a single, universal phenomena and its systematic application to people and organizations.

What is an Ingenio?

An Ingenio, or Intelligent Component, is a fundamental systemic design concept which JMJ defines, in the Scientific Intelligence framework, as a utility that allows the improvement of cognitive, rational capacities of the system in which it is integrated and the organization that deploys it. The fundamental core of the Interligare Group’s innovative activity is the research, design, engineering and continuous development of Ingenios as well as their assembly in systems and transference to other useful applications.

What elements make up a Scientific Intelligence System?

A Scientific Intelligence system is based on scientific-technical reference models, such as Ingenios-RM (1st Gen.) which, under a cognitive-rational model, is defined by five big super systems:

  1. Understanding Systems: These systems are orientated towards knowing precisely what is happening, to infer what the parties of interest to the organization are thinking, to establish their patterns of behaviour and estimate how they will evolve and respond when faced with the organization’s present and future objectives. These systems are traditionally and erroneously, and not very scientifically, known as Surveillance and Intelligence Systems.
  2. Reasoning Systems: These systems are orientated towards planning, designing and performing search and reasoning sequences though tools and analytical-synthetic techniques that allow complex problems to be handled, to learn from mistakes, to constantly improve cognitive-rational abilities and to generate new visions of the world by developing new, creative reasoning processes.
  3. Knowledge Systems: These systems are responsible for capturing and managing an organization’s knowledge stored in systems and personnel, they are also responsible for exploiting, evolving and assuring the repository of knowledge available in the organization.
  4. Strategic Systems: These systems allow the design, planning, training and management of operational actions which are set in motion to transform the real world situation of interest to the organization once a decision has been made according to the implicated understanding, reasoning and knowledge processes.
  5. Communication Systems: They are responsible for facilitating the exchange of information and knowledge, and the diffusion of the same in productive time, optimizing the rules and procedures according to the affinity processes found between senders and receivers.

What characteristics principally define an Intelligent Organization?

An intelligent organization is highly efficient, flexible, evolutionary, self-healing, self-preserving and has the capacity to be aware of itself. (JMJ-2010)

  1. These organizations continually improve their process, products or services.
  2. They have precise knowledge and understanding of the environment surrounding them and can estimate the immediate future from a strong evidential base.
  3. They rapidly adapt to crises or environmental changes, whether these are regulatory, economic, technological, etc.
  4. They use, exploit and manage the cognitive resources (capacities) of internal and external personnel and systems with great efficiency.
  5. They continually monitor the efficiency of all the organization’s processes and capacities thereby allowing the process of innovation to be clearly driven.
  6. They immediately and coherently respond, planning strategies in keeping with their interest in a non-aggressive, non-disruptive way with other organizations in their environment, but they are ready to decisively respond to any threat identified or opportunity detected.

What is Scientific Intelligence’s field of application?

Any organization is susceptible to being able to increase their structure and efficiency though the specific or extensive application of Scientific Intelligence to their personnel, procedures, methods and systems which organize their activity. Thus, it can be applied to a single person or professional, to a specific collective (long-term unemployed, stock exchanging analysts, police investigators, public officers or directives), to a family, a company of any size in any sector, an administrative body (mayor’s office, army, ministry, etc), to a province or region, to a state or supranational organization.

How can Scientific Intelligence help to alleviate the situation of global crisis we are suffering?

It seems evident that the crisis we are suffering is not only economic, but rather more systemic. However, the inefficiency has been demonstrated of current organizations to opportunely detect the evidence which indicates a change of cycle and, later, the inability to correctly manage the effects of the crisis from any sphere of responsibility. To this effect, Scientific Intelligence allows the integral transformation of organizations, as expressed in the previous question, creating post-crisis organizations and new models of actuation, in agreement with scientific and humanistic developments for this new millennium.

What is Interligare’s attitude with respect to this new discipline?

We maintain two clearly different attitudes, on one hand, from an academic and research point of view, our attitude is one of responsibility, humbleness and with a spirit of dissemination as we consider ourselves to be its founders and promoters, and with a clear mission to incorporate scientific and academic institutions into the challenge of jointly constructing the scientific-technical building. On the other hand, as an Innovation Company, we consider ourselves globally to be the most advanced research, design and engineering company in this matter and, of course, the reference in the deployment, together with other partners, of transforming projects worldwide.

What has Interligare’s trajectory been since its foundation?

Interligare was founded in November 2004 and established its headquarters in its “founder’s guest room” after four years of exploratory research into traditional Intelligence systems and organizations, which we call scientific and methodological Understanding Systems, by a group of international experts headed by José Martín Juárez.

The objective of this research was to improve the quality and precision of traditional Intelligence processes and products leading to what we know as Evidence Based Investigative Intelligence which represents the first serious effort to endow scientific-technical rigour to situational knowledge processes and the production of strategic information to support decision making.

In June 2006 we managed to define a basic offer that allowed us to finance our “start-up” process and, three months later, we obtained our first project: the design and deployment of a TIC Intelligence System in the National Antiterrorist Coordination Centre.

In 2007 we initiated the prelaunch of the first basic version (5.1) of our nowIS Understanding Systems to a group of “early adopters” (pioneer users), who allowed us to study how different types of organizations use and respond to a reduced version of this kind of system, with the aim of initiating, from this data and other international references, our innovation program and start-up process which finished in 2009, with more than ten systems and services deployed in distinct institutions, with different degrees of success with respect to functionality, robustness and user satisfaction, an innovation program consolidated in objectives and figures, a model company of the future which allows us to foresee an important development in the coming years and, above all, with the singular business act of having given birth a new scientific-technical discipline from the researcher, developer effort made by JMJ and his team.

What is the Interligare Group’s current position and what are the plans for the next few years?

Interligare is a reliable innovation partner in a new discipline which is of great benefit to any human organization and, through its process of innovation, has the objective of continuously producing Ingenios and advanced systems which will allow us, together with our technical and knowledge partners, to deploy strategic projects and distribute applications and devices for the global community of knowledge workers.

Our plans range from progressively reinforcing our financial structure and reserves, making our innovation system more efficient, and performing a structured business development which allows us to maintain alliances with other institutions throughout the world.

With respect to our human resources policy, we do not have a policy for expansion but rather to increase the quality of the scientific-technical personnel through select international level signings, the creation of a reserve of future professionals and a complete external network of scientific and technological research and development groups.

What are the Interligare Group’s products and services?

We have produced and we are producing an enormous arsenal of innovation assets which we will, with patience and strategic opportunities, little by little, transfer to our partners and to the general market between 2010 and 2012.

What difficulties has the innovator process experienced?

We have had, and we continue to have, considerable difficulties, overall in our own country, where the scientific and technological innovation culture is conspicuously absent, in addition there are private quasi-monopolies of public origin which, instead of helping leading companies which produce the country’s individual talent, endeavour to protect their position with despicable tactics and gangster activities. Nevertheless, all these attempts are in vain and reinforce our and our team’s conviction that we are on the right track. We are creators and people of science; we endeavour to hold ourselves above the general mediocrity with respect to the behaviour of the national technological industry by simple mental hygiene.

How can I obtain further information about your position, capacities and benefit of your knowledge and systems?

Our WEB page has a download area where more than 40 documents can be found in the form of presentations, leaflets and White Papers, in both Spanish and English, which clearly reflect our potential.

Who are your principal competitors?

As an R&D Group, and as founders of our own discipline which allows us to contribute an advanced, solid and singular approach to any problem, we are unaware of any competitors, therefore our mission is to spread our resultant assets to all and in numerous ways, and to share knowledge with the aim of advancing in this field.

What is your position with respect to traditional Intelligence and its derivatives such as Competitive or Technological Intelligence, etc.?

Many of Interligare’s professionals come from traditional Intelligence and, therefore, we know the incoherence of terms and doctrinal confusion that exists in this knowledge area very well. Similarly, and as a result of the latter, we often see little qualified profiles fronting projects and with business cards that indicate their knowledge in the matter.

Firstly, the term “Intelligence” was coined by people alien to the scientific world at the end of the 1940s to differentiate captured and exploited information from that which, prior to being exploited, is submitted to a more or less structured evaluation process. In this respect, the use of the word “Intelligence” lacks rigour and represents nothing, therefore we refer to it, within our Scientific Intelligence reference model, as Understanding Systems and have, with notable precision and coherence, formalized its operational, methodological and computerized conception creating nowIS (Normalized Wide Spectrum Intelligence Systems) and progressively developing Ingenios, which allow the distinct pieces of which it consists to become more and more standardized.

Finally, from a scientific perspective, we consider that denominations such as Competitive or Financial Intelligence cannot exist. For us, the right thing is to pinpoint much more, defining the specific sphere of activity of this totally transversally applicable discipline, i.e. it would be right to speak of an Intelligence or Understanding System to a presidential cabinet, an innovation department, an army unit, a provincial deputation, a design and financial product management team, a medical unit in an NGO in an area of conflict, etc.

As we say, in the design of strategic systems based on a robust doctrinal model, the objectives do not change, and the tasks that lead to them only do so though scientific and technological changes, not though the environment of the application to which they are submitted.

Do you have a methodology to tackle a project to integrally transform any organization, of any size, in any environment, into an intelligent organization?

Yes, we have developed a methodology which allows us to tackle an innovation project with sectorial partners to study the application of Scientific Intelligence in your organization and to identify the transformation projects and their progressive deployment in the organization.

Knowing that all organizations could benefit from Scientific Intelligence, which would you say are especially sensitive or a priority for the Interligare Group?

Due to the social impact, all those institutions that are interested in people living better. For the capacity to transform and the profitability of the investment, those organization that sell information and knowledge given that they can pass from a process of elaboration to a standardized, industrial production process and sale of digital assets, notably improving their productivity and obtaining an enormous return on investment in the short and medium term.

What are the Interligare Group’s growth objectives?

Despite the time of our presence in the market and the results of the start-up, we are at the level of successful projects and well known at world level. Due to the majority of the share capital being in the hands of its founders, we do not have any pressure for growth, with the exception of improving the quality and value of our resulting assets and the scientific-technical precision of our R&D projects, always within a controlled process of progressive profitability and financial solidity.