Knowledge Management in the Intelligence Enterprise
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2002
374 pages
978-1-58053-486-4 (ISBN)
Description
If you are responsible for the management of an intelligence enterprise operation and its timely and accurate delivery of reliable intelligence to key decision-makers, this book is must reading. It is the first easy-to-understand, system-level book that specifically applies knowledge management principles, practices and technologies to the intelligence domain. The book describes the essential principles of intelligence, from collection, processing and analysis, to dissemination for both national intelligence and business applications.
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Content
- Knowledge Management in the Intelligence Enterprise
- Contents vii
- Preface xiii
- 1 Knowledge Management and Intelligence 1
- 1.1 Knowledge in a Changing World 4
- 1.2 Categories of Intelligence 10
- 1.3 The Intelligence Disciplines and Applications 12
- 1.4 The Intelligence Enterprise 17
- 1.5 The State of the Art and the State of the Intelligence Tradedcraft 20
- 1.6 The Organization of This Book 23
- Endnotes 24
- Selected Bibliography 26
- 2 The Intelligence Enterprise 29
- 2.1 The Stakeholders of Nation-State Intelligence 29
- 2.2 Intelligence Processes and Products 33
- 2.3 Intelligence Collection Sources and Methods 35
- 2.4 Collection and Process Planning 40
- 2.5 KM in the Intelligence Process 42
- 2.6 Intelligence Process Assessments and Reengineering 44
- 2.7 The Future of Intelligence 48
- Endnotes 51
- 3 Knowledge Management Processes 55
- 3.1 Knowledge and Its Mangement 56
- 3.2 Tacit and Explicit Knowledge 62
- 3.3 An Intelligence Use Case Spiral 74
- 3.4 Taxonomy of KM 80
- 3.5 Intelligence As Capital 85
- 3.6 Intelligence Business Strategy and Models 93
- 3.7 Intelligence Enterprise Architecture and Applications 96
- 3.8 Summary 102
- Endnotes 104
- 4 The Knowledge-Based Intelligence Organization 107
- 4.1 Virtues and Disciplines of the Knowledge-Based Organization 109
- 4.2 Organizational Learning 121
- 4.3 Organizational Collaboration 129
- 4.4 Organizational Problem Solving 142
- 4.5 Tradecraft: The Best Practices of Intelligence 151
- 4.6 Summary 153
- Endnotes 153
- 5 Principles of Intelligence Analysis and Synthesis 159
- 5.1 The Basis of Analysis and Synthesis 160
- 5.2 The Reasoning Processes 167
- 5.3 The Intergrated Reasoning Process 175
- 5.4 Analysis and Synthesis As a Modeling Process 180
- 5.5 Intelligence Targets in Three Domains 186
- 5.6 Summary 190
- Endnotes 191
- 6 The Practice of Intelligence Analysis and Synthesis 195
- 6.1 Intelligence Consumer Expectations 196
- 6.2 Analysis-Synthesis in the Intelligence Workflow 198
- 6.3 Applying Automation 203
- 6.4 The Role of the Human Analyst 205
- 6.5 Addressing Congitive Shortcomings 207
- 6.6 Marshaling Evidence and Structuring Argumentation 209
- 6.7 Evaluation Competing Hypotheses 223
- 6.8 Countering Denial and Deception 229
- 6.9 Summary 235
- Endnotes 235
- 7 Knowledge Internalization and Externalization 241
- 7.1 Externalization and Internalization in the Intelligence Workflow 241
- 7.2 Storage, Query, and Retrieval Services 245
- 7.3 Cognitive (Analytic Tool) Services 249
- 7.4 Intelligence Production, Dissemination, and Portals 256
- 7.5 Human-Machine Information Transactions and Interfaces 264
- 7.6 Summary 267
- Endnotes 268
- 8 Explicit Knowledge Capture and Combination 271
- 8.1 Explicit Capture, Representation, and Automated Reasoning 272
- 8.2 Automated Combination 275
- 8.3 Intelligence Modeling and Simulation 289
- 8.4 Summary 294
- Endnotes 294
- 9 The Intelligence Enterprise Architecture 299
- 9.1 Intelligence Enterprise Operations 300
- 9.2 Describing the Enterprise Architecture 302
- 9.3 Architecture Design Case Study: A Small CI Enterprise 306
- 9.4 Summary 322
- Endnotes 324
- 10 Knowledge Management Technologies 327
- 10.1 Role of IT in KM 327
- 10.2 KM Research for National Security Applications 331
- 10.3 A KM Technology Roadmap 332
- 10.4 Key KM Technologies 335
- 10.5 Summary 340
- Endnotes 340
- About the Author 343
- Index 345
