“Crucial Decision Parameters For The Establishment Of Strategic Human Intelligence System For Sustainable Competitive Advantage In The Corporate World

Abstract

The use of strategic intelligence has become critical, and the skills for its management and application are of great relevance in terms of defining management strategies and decisions, and complementary to the use of technology tools. Establishment of Strategic Human Intelligence Agency and exploiting it for the information superiority in the operations of business and corporate affairs is the latest pursuit of those seeking competitive advantages. In strategic essence, human intelligence is used for expeditions in corporate arenas though its existence remains seamless and concealed to the core team and the agency is always stringently controlled.  Exploring Strategic Human Intelligence systematics seems to be a holy grail as the intelligence gatherings are fundamentally cognitive and highly valued in all domains of business. It is recognized as the crucial resource that contributes to overall leverage for any organization. Thus, making it a factor of strategic importance and its management is therefore far too important to be left to chance. Intelligence agency management is the explicit and systematic management of intelligence and associated processes i.e. establishing, gathering, extracting, organizing, distributing, applying, securing, and exploiting it. The concept of competitive intelligence, economic intelligence, business intelligence etc are all based on the core fundamentals of intelligence science and factually the corner stone in today’s knowledge-based economies. This research initiative attempts to perform the viability analysis of Strategic Human Intelligence for competitive advantage in the corporate world. This research effort also tries to identify the decision parameters for ascertaining the need of establishing Strategic Human Intelligence agency within and outside corporate organizations for superiority in all strategic intends and preempts.