An Adaptive Intelligence Community
Excellent read on the needed reform within the intelligence community. Snippet:
What’s needed today is an analysis-centric, rather than collection-centric, model that would elevate the importance of unclassified information and discourage compartmentalization. It would encourage analysts to hunt and gather data, rather than living on a restricted diet of the secret — or, for that matter, open-source — data pellets that the current collection system feeds them. Intelligence should provide context and allow imaginative hypothesizing.
It’s in this, the most pressing of problems in knowledge work, that the right application of strategic technology can yield the highest returns. And the best part is: it can be done cheaply from the bottom up within these organizations. (Hint: platforms.)
This kind of groundswell shift will affect the organization, and its culture over the long run rather than just short-run superficial restructuring (which is indeed tiring and ultimately an exercise in futility). Also, the right change agent, armed with this kind of technology (or buying power), can exponentially grow the second order results of her own impact.
-Shlok
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