THEORY AND PRACTICE IN INTELLIGENCE: KNOWLEDGE DRIVERS
THEORY AND PRACTICE IN INTELLIGENCE: KNOWLEDGE DRIVERS

Summary/Abstract: Cooperation with academia is seen by intelligence theorists and practitionersalike as a way to support change management, improve analytic capabilities and bettercope with emerging challenges. Intelligence scholars often focus on ’big phenomena’such as social change, the shifting nature of threats or ethics in intelligence, whilepractitioners are concerned (in public statements, at least) with more mundane issuessuch as human resource management, workflow streamlining and establishing goodrapport with beneficiaries.Not even apparently clear-cut terms such as “strategic” bear the same meaningwithin the two groups: theorists seek to correlate social and organizational change,while practitioners are more interested in detecting risks and threats in their nascentstages so as to better prepare for “worst case” scenarios.Managing the knowledge production process is, unfortunately, a topic whichdoesn’t rank high with the intelligence community

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