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1996 Clerc (FR) The French Model for Economic and Financial Intelligence

Commercial Intelligence, Historic Contributions
Philippe A. Clerc
Philippe A. Clerc

Philippe Clerc has been active in World Information Forum and related activities at the international level, and in France within the emergent economic and financial intelligence environment.  Below is his presentation to OSS '96.

It merits mention that the French learned a hard lesson in 1993–their steel industry realized that their competitive intelligence effort against all other steel industries had failed because they did not consider steel substitutes–the plastics industry emerged overnight and supplanted steel in the automobile industry and elsewhere.  It was while learning this in Paris in 1994 that we realized it was vital to “cast a wide net” and not narrow-cast open source information acquisition.

1996 Clerc French Model

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1996 Strassmann (US) U.S. Knowledge Assets: Choice Traget for Information Crime

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Government, Historic Contributions, Law Enforcement
Paul Strassmann
Paul Strassmann

Whenever we get depressed about the inability of large organizations to “hear” we just remind ourselves that no one listens to Brent Scowcroft or Paul Strassmann either despite their stature as intellectual giants.

Strassmann is an enterprise unto himself after decades of being a CIO for Xerox, DoD, and then a reprise at NASA for Sean O'Keefe.  His books are among the most vital for executives seeking to actually understand the business value of computing.  Below is his presentation to OSS '96.

Knowledge Targets
Knowledge Targets
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1996 Information Peacekeeping: Innovative Policy Options

Briefings & Lectures, Communities of Practice, Peace Intelligence
Information Peacekeeping
Information Peacekeeping

This was a very original piece of work and a major step forward in the thinking on this topic.  It would lead to a publication for the U.S. Institute of Peace in 1997.  It is appropriate at this juncture to credit Dr. Professor Doug Dearth, long-time course coordinator for the National Senior Intelligence Officers Course at the Joint Military Intelligence Training College, and Col Al Campen, USAF (Ret), the father of DoD C4I as a concept, and long-time publisher for the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).  Alone among thousands, these two officers recognized the value of this thinking, and pressed for finished work in the form of articles and chapters, and then books.  Their three books on CYBERWAR were a gift to national policy-makers that has never been properly acknowledged.

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1996 Zuckerman (US) Economic Intelligence and the National Interest

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Government, Historic Contributions
Mortimer Zuckerman
Mortimer Zuckerman

Something of a renaissance man, Mort Zuckerman is active across real estate, the media (US News & World Report), the talk shows, and the Smithsonian cultural circuit.  Below is his hard-hitting commentary as presented at OSS '96. Read this carefully.  See especially the use of the word “manic.” The US Government is not trained, equipped, or organized to be intelligent.  The consumers of intelligence do not represent the public as much as they do the recipients of the public's largesse, and do not know how to do intelligence in the public interest.  The secret intelligence community refuses to create a strategic analytic model, and continues to be driven by budget, technical, and bureaucratic consideration–inputs–rather than desired outcomes.

1996 Zuckerman Economic Intelligence

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Reference (1996): The Brown Commission and the Future of Intelligence

Cultural Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, IO Impotency
Carmen Medina What to Do When Traditional Models Fail

The Brown Commission and the Future of Intelligence

A Roundtable Discussion

On 1 March 1996, the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community (the Brown Commission) issued its report to the President and to Congress. On 26 March, Studies in Intelligence board members Brian Latell, Robert Herd, John Wiant, and Bill Nolte met at the Commission's offices in the New Executive Office Building with Ann Z. Caracristi, a member of the Commission; Staff Director L. Britt Snider; and staff members Douglas Horner, Brendan Melley, Kevin Scheid, and William Kvetkas. What follows is an edited transcript of the discussion with them, reviewed in advance by the participants.

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