Reflections on Information Pathologies & Organizational Intelligence — Why Predictive Analytics on Industrial Era Data is Fraud, Waste, & Abuse

Coherent, the Force is…. Restrictive Control and Information Pathologies in Organizations Wolfgang Scholl* Humboldt-University, Berlin Although the relation of power to knowledge is an often discussed theme, a psychological and sociological scrutiny of the issue is lacking. A new conceptual and theoretical approach to this issue is presented here that distingushes between restrictive and promotive …

Stephen E. Arnold: From Bad Search to Predictive Analytics Snake Oil

From Search to Prediction  The economic vise is closing on some search and content processing vendors. There are some significant repositioning’s underway. We are working on three at this time, and, believe me, the vendors are doing more than changing the color of the logo. As we work on our projects, we have been aware …

Answers on OSINT for India 47: Two Examples and The Bottom Line

Sir, In many of your videos and papers/docs, you mention the following examples- That once you had asked a retired bank chief to give you a summary of the banking situation for 250 USD while the intel community couldn’t gather what you did even after spending thousand’s. Kindly tell about it. Once a US president, …

Answers on OSINT for India 46: OSINT Training Done Right? None

Sir, an official recently asked about institutions capable of training in OSINT in India. All those that i know about teach about internet surfing. Do you know any institutions in India that can impart true OSINT training or any officials who had been trained by you or your company? SHORT ANSWER: No one, anywhere, does …