Part of the challenge of strategy is the “educated guess” component—perhaps the most esoteric angle of the planning arts. It's also the most important. Mastering it comes from exposure to vast amounts of such varied information as the hard facts of competitor analysis, market studies, and...

Purpose – To show how teams can be used to do intelligence work – all phases of the work from data collection through to development and deployment of the final intelligence outputs. Design/methodology/ approach – The paper addresses how intelligence teams might be designed and managed. It...