Corporate Security Intelligence and Strategic Decision Making

Chapter 6

Management and Direction

It is impossible to provide a forecast of future contingencies, especially because on our expeditions we are obliged to go across great waters and vast solitudes by dangerous ways…on account of which they frequently depend on God’s will and disposition, and of course the weather.

The Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, 1394

Chapter Objectives

1. To explain how intelligence requirements are derived, articulated, energized, and actively managed.
2. To underscore the importance of managing an intelligence process in as efficient a manner as possible.
3. To discuss the concept of knowledge management within a corporate intelligence environment.

Introduction

The previous chapters have discussed the principles and theory ...