INTELLIGENCE IN SOCIETY: SPARKS OF A SYSTEMIC APPROACH
INTELLIGENCE IN SOCIETY: SPARKS OF A SYSTEMIC APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the potential role of intelligence structures in social change, aiming to support the economy of effort as a prerequisite for maximizing societal efficiency. Western democracies, with their openness to dialogue, provides the supporting arguments. The theme and its objective, respond to specific concerns of the policy-making forums, serving active social forces. The evolution of society is addressed through economics, considering market mechanisms in the pursuit of exchanges, with socio-human energy expenditures and harvesting. The approach is multi methodological, based on an economic interpretation of the theory of social systems, supported by heuristics and casuistic. The enterprise is based on the analytical reflection of socio-human behaviour, consisting of capital-forming assets. The intelligence activities are central to the system. Surveillance and information collection activities are oriented towards the concentrations of social capital and power. The progression(information analysis, intelligence cooperation) of the evolution of society (identity change) arises from the responsibility of intelligence towards society and diverse opportunities (the power of knowledge, policy-driven evolution). The results are varied and differentiated: from concepts (counter-reaction), a systems theory adapted to the real world, methodological elements to orient information analysis, and substantiated suggestions useful for the development of public policies, to foreshadowed identity options. Building better at home remains a matter of major concern due to traditions that favour reforms, to the detriment of an adaptation system.

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