The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Co-author with David R. Schwinn and John Kesler, all three authors authors are associated with Ingenius, a Michigan-based consulting organization focusing on an integral community building approach to increasing civic intelligence. www.ingeniusonline.com
Civic intelligence and the security of the homeland
Michael Sandman is Senior Vice President of Fuld & Company. He has over twenty years of experience as a senior operations manager in companies. He joined Fuld & Company in 1991, where he is the managing partner. He also continues to do consulting for our clients. He has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University Business School's advanced management program for senior executives, the University of Wisconsin's Management Institute and at the Boston University School of Management. Mr. Sandman developed CI 101 and CI 202, the courses sponsored by the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), and he teaches those courses for SCIP. He has served on the peer review board of the Competitor Intelligence Review, and he wrote the chapter on computers and software for competitor intelligence applications published in Perfectly Legal Competitor Intelligence (Bernhardt, Pitman Publishing/Financial Times, London 1993). He is the author of the chapter on business intelligence analysis for Millennium Intelligence, edited by Professor Jerry Miller and published in 2000. He was elected to be a Fellow of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.
Co-author with Carol J. Schwinn and John Kesler, all three authors authors are associated with Ingenius, a Michigan-based consulting organization focusing on an integral community building approach to increasing civic intelligence. www.ingeniusonline.com
Civic intelligence and the security of the homeland
Trained in computer science and software engineering, Douglas Schuler has been working on the borderlines of society and technology for over 20 years. He believes that positive social change is possible and that technology could play a role in promoting it. To that end he has given presentations on similar themes in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America. He has written and co-edited several books, including New Community Networks: Wired for Change (Addison-Wesley, 1996; also http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ncn/) and, most recently Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (MIT Press, 2008), a civic intelligence undertaking with 85 contributors. He is a founder of the Seattle Community Network, an early, free public-access computer network and the Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC) symposium series sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility that was launched in 1987. Formerly an AI Researcher at Boeing Computer Services, Doug has been teaching at The Evergreen State College, a non-traditional liberal arts college in Washington State, since 1996. He is also president of the Public Sphere Project (http://www.publicsphereproject.org/) a non-profit organization dedicated to the democratization and effective use of information and communication systems.
Civic Intelligence & the Public Sphere
Nova Spivack is the CEO and founder of Radar Networks, a San-Francisco company that is pioneering applications of the Semantic Web for distributed collaboration and knowledge management with a new service called Twine.com. Mr. Spivack is a recognized authority on the Semantic Web and future of the Web, which is sometimes called “Web 3.0.” A more detailed bio can be found at his company website: http://www.radarnetworks.com/about/management.html#nova.
Harnessing the collective intelligence of the World-Wide Web
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Seena Sharp is a pioneer in Competitive Intelligence, founding one of the first CI firms in the US, Sharp Market Intelligence.
They provide market due diligence to large and small companies globally who are seeking growth opportunities. They detail industries and companies, unknown customers, substitute and indirect competitors, opportunities, market drivers, barriers, and external competitive threats.
John Wiley asked her to write the definitive book on CI for executives, Competitive Intelligence Advantage: How to Minimize Risks, Avoid Surprises, and Grow Your Business in a Changing World, published October 2009.
Her articles appear in a wide range of business publications; she is a popular global speaker, she received the Fellows Award from SCIP, and earned her master's degree in mathematics from New York University. Hercompany also publishes SharpInsights, brief alerts on market changes, archived at www.sharpmarket.com
A rising star in the Science Fiction (SF) world and a New York Times notable author, Karl Schroeder divides his time between writing fiction and consulting—chiefly in the area of Foresight Studies and technology. http://www.kschroeder.com
