Posts Tagged ‘share’

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Knowing and knowing

Intelligence…as in Intelligence Agencies (capital letters all around) seems to be a bit of an oxymoron. You know – this is the spy stuff – once the realm of 007 and sheer brawn – now the center of global scary high tech and sheer brain power – so they think.

  • Functioning teams share well. Dysfunctional teams don't. New teams need to learn how and who to share with. Siloed departments often develop protocols for sharing which inhibit sharing. Siloed government agencies ... forget about it. On the subject of drawing insights from data: most raw data is useless unless converted into legible information such as a comparative ...
  • my question exactly!!!! We need more human intervention.
  • The so-called failure of imagination wasn't a failure of imagination. It was a focus on acquisition of data, rather than interpretation of the data they were gathering. It's easy to say "We need more information." It's much harder to say "OK, based on the information we have, what can we determine? What does all this mean?" Admittedly, the balance between needing more ...