Michelle,
You make a good point that I should have pointed out in my piece with regard to what I meant by trained CI Pro-I meant those that had been trained by folks who were previously in the IC. I can see what you mean though, that those who migh…
I have seen this conversation continually proliferate on this board since joining, and it causes me great consternation and alarm to say the least; that there appears to be this need to define and differentiate CI, and that there is this impetus to…
Nimalan,
I am actually quite deep in this arena having just worked for a start-up that is trying to commercialize SW for government intelligence applications -ie, hostile intent detection, outlier detection, pattern and emerging pattern recognitio…
Hello Mark,
My perspective, and the same of nearly all of my fellow Strategic intelligence cohorts I consort with frequently:
1) For the most part, it appears the emphasis at most big US Commercial firms right now is very short term and tactical;…
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Compete Against Yourself and Your Own Strategies
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By Lance Winslow
Before retirement, many people said I was paranoid and that I acted like Don Quixote busy chasing windmills. The reality is I always assumed that…