Foundations of Secure and Governed Enterprise Intelligence

Enterprise Intelligence (EI)—intelligence generated and used within an organization—encompasses the governance of networked data, information, knowledge, insights, intellectual capital, metadata, user perceptions, and opinions. Fundamentally, it is about the management of an organization’s data resources—not just the management of facts, but their thoughtful use, evaluation, ingestion, filtering, assessment, curation, and analysis for both present and future purposes. Analysis capability consists of providing the right filter at the right time to the right community but is only part of the overall management process. Governance involves establishing policies and processes with accountabilities to ensure protected, secure, and abused information across the network. An Enterprise Intelligence function (potentially with some outsourced components) manages all data and information resources within Domain Authority specifications to satisfy business objectives. A future scenario: business demand an increase in intelligence community membership but with a simultaneous reduction in cost, hence the concept of Enterprise Intelligence arises in return.