Corporate Security Intelligence and Strategic Decision Making

Chapter 12

Implementing the Function

The Intelligence Estimate

Chapter Objectives

1. To discuss the need for a coherent process to address the implementation—or auditing—of an intelligence function.
2. To present a sample process to implement intelligence in the corporate security environment, known as the Intelligence Estimate.
3. To discuss how to use the Intelligence Estimate to best effect.

Introduction

Section 2 explained the theory and best practices around the implementation of intelligence in the corporate security environment. As the discussion in Section 2 showed, there are many points to consider in order to make the function as effective as possible. Getting started is therefore quite a challenge, and this has presented a serious barrier ...