Season’s Greetings & Happy New Year from Aurora WDC
In this time of global economic uncertainty, intelligence has never been more important to businesses everywhere. As we pause to reflect on the year behind us, we look forward with enthusiasm to the year ahead.
On behalf of everyone at Aurora WDC, we’d like to thank our clients, partners, associates and friends around the world for your continued trust, faith and engagement in 2009.
We hope that you can enjoy this holiday season spending some down-time with loved ones and send you our best wishes for health, happiness and a prosperous 2010 ahead.
Cheers!
Arik Johnson
Founder & Chairman
Aurora WDC
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Presentation Slides for SCIP / PDMA Joint Meeting (20090917) in Milwaukee – Intelligence 2.0: A Worldview For Anticipating Industry Change
I’m in Milwaukee this evening to give a talk on principles of Intelligence 2.0 for understanding innovation dynamics and anticipating industry change. I thought everybody would like to see the slide deck in advance or in case you can’t join us in person – feel free to share with anybody. Enjoy and please let me know if you have any questions; in case you can join us after all, please see details at the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals website to get registered. I’m looking forward to the other presenter as well – Kevin Burgess will speak on Vision, Development Process and Strategy at Fly Boy Carnival – sounds like fun.
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The Electric Company is a Genuinely Funky Show
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First Windows 7 Commercial from Microsoft – My Little Pony Meets PowerPoint
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Intellipedia, Discoverability & the Gov 2.0 Movement Toward Living Intelligence
I stumbled across this YouTube video from a link on Twitter and found it a pretty cogent argument selling the benefits of Intellipedia as driving quality of the work product as more important than the standard collaboration hype that so often seems to be the tone of most media coverage of the national intelligence sharing project. One of the more interesting observations by the video’s author, Chris Rasmussen, a social-software knowledge manager at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, is that any Enterprise 2.0 project must replace a legacy process or risk failure. Here are his notes on the video:
Intellipedia is now in its fourth year and the dominate view of its role can aptly be described as “good for collaboration but not the product.” Each intelligence agency still vets and generates “their” products and Intellipedia is largely viewed as an adjunct of generic information compared to the official process. The living intelligence model aims to reduce parallel product creation by moving the review process into the same place where the collaboration takes place. This would create a central and transparent vetting system that replaces legacy processes. This is a key lesson for all Enterprise 2.0 endeavors–it must replace something. Living intelligence has also been referred to as purple intelligence.
Rasmussen also links to an article earlier this summer in Federal Computer Review where he discusses the purple intel concept and which asks “Is ‘discoverability’ the answer to the information breakdowns that have hampered homeland security efforts?”:
[Rasmussen] … prefers to call himself a purple intelligence and mashup evangelist, pointing to the fact that purple is the color that results from mixing multiple points of the spectrum.
Purple is an apt symbol for combining the expertise of organizations working to help prevent future attacks, he said.
Rasmussen has seen purple power in action through countless little success stories accomplished via Intellipedia, the information-sharing wiki that serves intelligence agencies, the military and the State Department. “All the time, people are connecting with others [who] they didn’t know worked on the same issue six feet down the hall,” he said.
Connecting the dots, more formally known as information discoverability, is gaining increasing attention from homeland security officials and experts in their ongoing attempt to corral anti-terrorism information that resides across federal, state and local jurisdictions.
In January, the departing director of national intelligence issued Intelligence Community Directive 501, which gave intelligence personnel a “responsibility to discover” information believed to be relevant to their work, along with a corresponding “responsibility to request” information they have discovered.
The directive defined discovery as the act of obtaining knowledge of the existence, but not necessarily the content, of information collected or analysis produced by any intelligence community element.
Two months later, the bipartisan Markle Foundation published a report that reaffirmed “discoverability” as the first step in any effective information-sharing system.
“Solving discoverability simplifies solving information sharing,” said Jeff Jonas, an IBM distinguished engineer and a member of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.
But despite these high-profile mandates, challenges call into question the feasibility of discovery tools and techniques for solving data-sharing problems that span agencies, jurisdictions and cultural boundaries. Some say the technology isn’t even the hard part.
The real issue for Intelligence 2.0 then is not whether intelligence teams can collaborate more effectively but whether the methods can make a difference in the quality of the work product?
What do you think?
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Michael Moore New Movie Trailer for “Capitalism: A Love Story”
Michael Moore’s new movie ironically might generate more vitriol by conservatives against Obama than by progressives against Bush, as intended, but I guess we’ll find out on or about October 2.
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Japanese Band SOUR Webcam Music Video
I know I’m late to the party in seeing this, but it’s cool.
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Secrets of Simplicity – Presentation by @gilescolborne on Design and User Experience
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He’s Barack Obama & He’s Come to Save the Day – JibJab’s Funny New Music Video
Since China, Russia, India, Europe and Japan no longer seem to have much appetite for U.S. government debt and “Quantitative Easing” being forced on the Federal Reserve by the Treasury to pay for the out-of-control budget deficit without the political hazards of raising interest rates, I found this new video from JibJab pretty timely… and hilarious!
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The Onion News Network Video of What It’s Like to Take Your Toddler to Work … if You’re a Congressman
Congressman’s Son Won’t Shut The Hell Up During Hearing
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