Herring – Public Intelligence Blog

2011/11/252011/12/03

Reference: Jan Herring How Much Is Your Competitive Intelligence Worth? [Full Text Online for Google Translate] Referencia: Jan Herring ¿Cuánto vale tu Inteligencia Competitiva? [Texto completo en línea de Google Translate]

Herring Cover — Click on Image to Enlarge

Phi Beta Iota: This article, written in 2007, remains the standard in the field for both brevity and authoritativeness.

Business Intelligence is data mining, not intelligence. Competitive Intelligence focuses on competitors and does not do 360 degree holistic analytics.

The modern term for a full service program is Commercial Intelligence, which uses only open sources and ethical methods. It should not be confused with secret government intelligence or with illegal industrial espionage.

Mr. Herring is also the creator of the now globally-recognized “Herring Triangle” graphic of four levels of commercial intelligence and their relative costs.

Herring Triangulo en Espanol

Herring Triangle as Published in New Craft of Intelligence

Full Text Below the Line for Google Translate

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2010/08/302010/08/30

Reference: USDI Open Source Intelligence Instruction

DoD

USDI OSINT Instr Small Footprint — Full 12 Pages Online

Phi Beta Iota: Also known as dodi 3115.12, august 24, 2010. While the document displays some tiny hints that someone somewhere is thinking, it is largely bureaucratic pap that sanctifies the existing dysfunctional status quo, to include an SES as a branch chief rather than as the head of a new Department, DO, co-equal to DH and DI and DX. The only glimmer of progress is in requiring a consolidated defense program, but even this will be mangled and prolonged. This is a bean-counter instruction, not a real-world instruction intent on providing OSINT support to policy, acquisition, and operations.

Graphic: Herring Triangle of Four Levels Need & Cost

2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings

2009: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy

Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]

2010/01/242011/06/28

Graphic: Herring Triangle of Four Levels Need & Cost

Advanced Cyber/IO, Balance, Collection, Innovation, Multinational Plus, Strategy-Holistic Coherence

Jan Herring, the first National Intelligence Officer for Science & Technology (NIO/S&T) is the father of Open Source Intelligence in the USA. Now retired, his baton has been picked up by Robert Steele, who took the campaign multinational. The history continuing resistance to what was originally Jan Herring's lead is covered briefly in 2008 IJIC 21/3 The Open Source Program: Missing in Action.

2009/07/042013/03/05

Review: The Art and Science of Business Intelligence Analysis

4 Star, Intelligence (Commercial), Strategy

Too Expensive But Two Top People Cannot Be Ignored, July 5, 2008

Benjamin Gilad and Jan Herring

Although this book is dated and too expensive, Ben Gilad and Jan Herring are as good as it gets in the field. I recommend this book for corporate competitive intelligence collections–individuals should consider attending the Academy of Competitive Intelligence and look for less expensive works, such as I list below.
Early Warning: Using Competitive Intelligence to Anticipate Market Shifts, Control Risk, and Create Powerful Strategies
The New Competitor Intelligence: The Complete Resource for Finding, Analyzing, and Using Information about Your Competitors
The Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence: How to See Through and Stay Ahead of Business Disruptions, Distortions, Rumors, and Smoke Screens
Strategic and Competitive Analysis
Super Searchers Do Business: The Online Secrets of Top Business Researchers (Super Searchers, V. 1)
The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political–Citizen's Action Handbook for Fighting Terrorism, Genocide, Disease, Toxic Bombs, & Corruption

Not listed on Amazon, but available via the web from the UK, is Ben Gilad's book Blindspots, which I continue to regard as the single best work for a CEO willing to consider the possibility that their information is inevitably filtered, biases, incomplete, and late.

2008/09/302010/12/29

Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Ben Gilad

Alpha E-H, Commercial Intelligence

Dr. Ben Gilad, considered a leading developer of competitive intelligence (CI) theory and practice in the US, is a former Associate Professor of Strategy at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Management. Gilad’s first CI books, The Business Intelligence System (1988, AMACOM, co-authored) and Business Blindspots (1994, US: Probus/Irwin; 1998, UK: Infonortics), paved the way for the CI evolution in US corporations, many of which emulated the basic principles of Gilad’s CI process model. He is the co-editor of the definitive analysis book, The Art and Science of Business Intelligence Analysis (1996, JAI Press), reprinted and updated with Jan Herring in 2008.

In 2004 Gilad published his breakthrough book, Early Warning (AMACOM, 2004), which defines for the first time a new role and scope for CI practitioners based on his innovative work with two strategic early warning systems in two leading global corporations. For this new risk management perspective of CI, CI Magazine labeled him “our CI guru”. The Society of Competitive Professionals honored him with its highest Meritorious award in 1996.

2008/09/282010/12/29

Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Jan Herring

Alpha E-H, Commercial Intelligence

Jan Herring is President of Herring & Associates LLC, a management consultancy, specializing in intelligence matters, and a fouinding principal at the Academy of Competitive Intelligence, the gold standard for commercial intelligence training at all levels, entry, mid-career, and capstone.

He is unique in the world of commercial intelligence for having been the first modern pioneer and champion in the U.S. Intelligence Community for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). As the very first person ever to hold the office of National Intelligence Officer for Science & Technology (NIO S&T), he attempted in the early 1980's to repair the severe deficiency in access to open sources in all languages. His work laid the foundation for work by others that will eventually result in a national Open Source Agency fully independent of but support of the secret world.

2006/07/182009/08/14

Reader Training Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)

Methods & Process

1997	US	Reader	Admin	Cover, Appreciation, Foreword, Contents
1997	US	Reader	Basch	Secrets of the SuperSearchers: A Personal and Practical Perspective
1997	FR	Reader	Baumard	Learned Nations: Competitive Advantages Through Knowledge Strategies
1997	FR	Reader	Bonthous	Culture: The Missing Intelligence Variable
1997	UK	Reader	Collier	Toward the Global Information Industry and a New Information Paradigm
1997	US	Reader	Donahue	National Funding Directions for Open Source Intelligence
1997	US	Reader	Fedanzo	A Genetic View of National Intelligence
1997	US	Reader	Fedanzo	Implementing OSINT Through a Distributed Contribution Model
1997	US	Reader	Herring	The Role of Intelligence in Formulating Strategy
1997	US	Reader	Hlava	Selected Professional or Trade Associations in Information
1997	US	Reader	Karraker (WIRED)	Highways of the Mind
1997	US	Reader	Kees	Advanced Information Processing & Analysis
1997	SE	Reader	Leijonhelm	Economic Intelligence Cooperation Between Government and Industry
1997	US	Reader	Markowitz	Community Open Source Strategic Plan (COSPO)
1997	US	Reader	McGill	Private Sector Role in Collecting, Processing, & Disseminating Intelligence
1997	US	Reader	MITRE	Open Source Research Processing Initiative
1997	US	Reader	Peters	After the Revolution
1997	US	Reader	Rheingold	Tools for Thinking–Thinking New Thoughts
1997	US	Reader	Schmidt	A History of Failure, A Future of Opportunity: Reinventions and Deja Vu
1997	US	Reader	Shepard	Intelligence Analysis in the Year 2002: A Concept of Operations
1997	US	Reader	Sibbit	Commercial Remote Sensing: Open Source Imagery Intelligence
1997	US	Reader	Steele	ACCESS: Theory and Practice of Intelligence in the Age of Information
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Commercial Imagery (OSS Notices Extract)
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Draft Legislation: The National Information Strategy Act of 1994
1997	US	Reader	Steele	E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, and Intelligence
1997	US	Reader	Steele	HAC Surveys Open Source Intelligence (OSS Notices Extract)
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Information Concepts & Doctrine for the Future
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Intelligence Building Blocks (OSS Notices Extract)
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Lip Service, Great Pretenders, & OSINT (OSS Notices Extract)
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Mapping, Charting, & Geodesy Deficiencies (OSS Notices Extract)
1997	US	Reader	Steele	National Intelligence: The Community Tomorrow? (SASA at NSA)
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Open Source Intelligence: What Is It? Why Is It Important to the Military?
1997	US	Reader	Steele	OSINT: Graphical Overviews
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Private Enterprise Intelligence: Its Potential Contribution to Nat’l Security
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Reinventing Intelligence: The Advantages of Open Source Intelligence
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Talking Points for the Public Interest Summit
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Testimony to Commission on Eliminating Excessive Secrecy in Govt
1997	US	Reader	Steele	Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware
1997	US	Reader	Studeman	Teaching the Giant to Dance: Contradictions & Opportunities within the IC
1997	US	Reader	Toffler	Global Security & Global Competitiveness (OSS '03 Keynote)
1995	US	Reader	Markowitz	COSPO: Community Open Source Program Office Strategic Plan
1995	US	Reader	Peters	After the Revolution
1995	US	Reader	Steele	House Appropriations Committee Surveys Open Source Intelligence
1995	US	Reader	Steele	Intelligence Building Blocks
1995	US	Reader	Steele	Lip Service, Great Pretenders, and Open Source Intelligence
1995	US	Reader	Steele	Mapping, Charting, & Geodesy Deficiencies
1995	US	Reader	Steele	National Intelligence: The Community Tomorrow? (At NSA, 1995)
1995	US	Reader	Steele	OSINT: What Is It? Why Is It Important to the Military?
1994	US	Reader	Basch	Secrets of the Super-Searchers
1994	UK	Reader	Collier	Toward a Global Information Industry and New Information Paradigm
1994	US	Reader	Englebart	Toward High Performance Organizations
1994	US	Reader	Steele	Draft Legislation: National Security Act of 1994
1994	US	Reader	Steele	Private Enterprise Intelligence: Its Potential Contribution to Nat’l Sec
1994	US	Reader	Steele	Talking Point for the Public Interest Summit
1993	US	Reader	McGill	Private Sector Role in Collecting, Processing, Disseming Intelligence
1993	FR	Reader	Schmidt	A History of Failure, A Future of Opportunity: Reinvention & Deja Vu
1993	US	Reader	Steele	Reinventing Intelligence: The Advantages of OSINT