Among the many definitions or characterizations of economic intelligence, the latter, we Mael Le Hir book title of a post on his blog Vedocci , seems interesting analyze because, if it may seem efficient, it is nonetheless somewhat ambiguous and may well lead to confusion.
This formula describes the intelligence as " the art of seeing without being seen " indeed has the disadvantage of happily apply to espionage, intelligence activity which Economic constantly seek to differentiate themselves.
We understand yet what it means to its author, who is also specified in the body of the ticket or " art that displays a company to provide maximum information for strategic purposes, while protecting up its data. In this latest version, more explicit ready indeed much less confusing. It is obviously not a spy, but information retrieval "strategic" one hand, and protection of its confidential information to the other. The precision is useful for not be open to criticism which would point not without reason that if the company has an urgent need to see or learn to act and undertake, however, it did not intend to hide any more than it needed. At most she need and duty to ensure the confidentiality of information it generates or manipulates it and which could benefit its competitors, which is very different.
But beyond what could pass for a mere excess of formality, the ambiguity of the formula is noteworthy because it raises a fundamental question about the relevance of the merger within the same discipline ; two activities as diverse and contradictory as are the research and protection of strategic information.
I already addressed this issue of the "paradox of strategic information" in an article already former, which the reader can refer. I gave the conclusions he had drawn in my opinion for intelligence " The secrecy is obviously the work of all " but " is also a trade recognized "and required that often requires professional intervention . " This specific business can not be confused with intelligence, which covers the entire spectrum of information processing (control of the exploitation of sources of information), and is fundamentally different practices. Although they are both serving the same strategic goal, confused denies the existence of one or the other. This amalgam is harmful for intelligence and always dangerous to confidentiality. "
Perhaps the intelligence to gain inspiration from these findings and provisions that might follow, that I summarized roughly as follows:
- reserve the term "intelligence" on public policy advocated by Bernard Carayon;
- promote the creation of an academic discipline on civil Intelligence (or function operation) with the objective to develop, on the basis of precise definitions of its various ingredients, research programs and related training designed to create a pool of professionals in the intelligence function to the sovereign functions of state security (intelligence security) for public-private partnership in terms of influence (intelligence influence), as well as for businesses (information - or information - business);
- finally encourage rehabilitation, these new bases , the intelligence function within companies, as part of an activity officially called "business intelligence" clearly separate the security function, which any government involvement would be formally excluded in order not to distort the most basic rules of competition and to avoid these dangerous liaisons and their derivatives regularly highlighted by the press.
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* Note: for those that the word "intelligence" put off, or who feel, perhaps rightly, that it is too connoted "security" or espionage I propose to designate the discipline by the expression "Exploitation of useful information" and function "information business".
* Note: for those that the word "intelligence" put off, or who feel, perhaps rightly, that it is too connoted "security" or espionage I propose to designate the discipline by the expression "Exploitation of useful information" and function "information business".
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