New service by the strategicanalysis blog

The strategicanalysis blog will start providing to its readers, texts in Greek & English dealing with the issue of “Illegal immigration, postmodern intellectual thinking against the interests of the nation state and corruption”.
One of the main issues of the contemporary society is the threat posed by pseudo-intellectuals that call towards the abolition of the notion [...]

FRANCE : The 10 commandments of Competitive Intelligence

1. Define information needs. An competitive intelligence process should start with a precise analysis of the information needs of the decision-makers, coworkers and employees within a company. On the basis of this work, it is up to the management to decide what the priorities are and consequently to set orientations for information research.
2. Gather open [...]

Bibliography on organizational change

1)Bukowitz, Wendi R. and Ruth L. Williams. New metrics for hidden assets. Journal of Strategic Performance Measurement 1, no.1 (February-March 1997): 12-18.
A new measurement tool, the knowledge management assessment tool (KMAT), looks at the inputs to the knowledge management process and examines how companies perceive their own performance. This article examines process measurement using the [...]

Knowledge Transfer

By Yogesh Malhotra
“The best information environments will
take advantage of the ability of IT to
overcome geography but will also
acknowledge that the highest bandwidth
network of all is found between the water
fountain and the coffee machine.”
The Three Components of Knowledge Management:
• Knowledge generation.
Includes all activities, which brings to light knowledge
that is “new” to the individual, to the group, [...]

Knowledge Assets in the Global Economy: Assessment of National Intellectual Capital

By Yogesh Malhotra
Journal of Global Information Management
July-Sep, 2000, 8(3), 5-15.
Abstract
This article has the following objectives: developing the need for assessing knowledge capital at the national economic level; review of a national case study of how intellectual capital assessment was done in case of one nation state; suggesting implications of use of such assessment methods and [...]

Improving Intelligence Analysis

Center for the Study of Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
1999
How can intelligence analysis be improved? That is the challenge. A variety of traditional approaches are used in pursuing this goal: collecting more and better information for analysts to work with, changing the management of the analytical process, increasing the number of analysts, providing language and area studies [...]

Leading change: insights from Jungian interpretations of The Book of Job

Charles Smith
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, USA,
 
and
Michael Elmes
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Abstract This paper explores insights from the psychology of C.G. Jung as it relates to leadership
and the management of change in organizations. It draws especially upon Jung’s archetypal
interpretation of the biblical story of Job, and the relevance of this story to the modern [...]

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Jason Vest
(National Security Correspondent for Government Executive)
Copyright: Foreign Policy Journal on line
Note: A Critical Analysis of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol. 18, No. 2. Summer 2005.
People have long been fascinated with the shadowy milieu of espionage, what former British intelligence officer and novelist John Le Carre christened the “secret world.” Although its [...]

Propaganda

Propaganda Techniques
Edward Filene helped establish the Institute of Propaganda Analysis in 1937 to educate the American public about the nature of propaganda and how to recognize propaganda techniques. Filene and his colleagues identified the seven most common “tricks of the trade” used by successful propagandists (Marlin 102-106: Propaganda Critic: Introduction). These seven techniques are called:
Name [...]

TELLING CHANGES: FROM NARRATIVE FAMILY THERAPY TO ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE & DEVELOPMENT

AVID BARRY
Management & Employment Relations
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
+(64 9) 373-7599, ext. 7153
email: d.barry@auckland.ac.nz
first published in Journal of Organizational Change Management
(1997, V10, #1: 32-48)
ABSTRACT
This paper explores how developments in the groundbreaking field of narrative family therapy might be applied to organizational change efforts.  After an introductory discussion of some of narrative therapy’s [...]