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Looking Back: A Year Where Intelligence Mattered
It's a New Year with new resolutions, new hopes and new challenges. Before jumping too quickly forward, as we often have a tendency to do, it is important to take a look back and see what mattered in 2005 and how it can help us meet future challenges.
Our tendency is to generally focus on the events that happened instead of understand why they happened or why we were ill-equipped to handle the nature of certain challenges. The same is true within most corporations, where the focus is on what we did, not how we did it or how we can improve. Intelligence and information mattered most in 2005, probably more so than they did in any other year.
Consider some of the key events of 2005: Hurricane Katrina, the Avian Flu, Iraq and the London bombings. The importance of intelligence and information played a large role in these events. Could pain and suffering have been mitigated in Hurricane Katrina if intelligence had been better coordinated? Would our fears regarding an avian flu outbreak be less if the world's health systems were better connected to central information repository? Have casualties in Iraq been less severe because our military intelligence is so sophisticated? And could the London bombings have been averted if more sophisticated surveillance and matching systems were in place?
Information is proliferating at a torrid pace; however, it is not about the …
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. - Albert Einstein |