Sense Making in the Australian Defence Organisation (ADO) Intelligence Community

Abstract

This paper discusses sense making, and its role in how intelligence analysts understand and interpret events. The inherent limitations in the way an analyst, based on organisational and personal perspectives, understands the world is described and points toward the need for meta-sense making techniques. Insights from complex systems theory and knowledge management can be used to understand how techniques from these areas can be applied in practice, and assist in mitigating some of the risks due to the cognitive limitations inherent in intelligence processes. The relation of an augmented capability for sensing and understanding to emerging whole-of-enterprise concepts such as Sense and Respond and UC2 is also sketeched.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA440000

Entities

People

  • Mark Burnett
  • Paul Prekop
  • Pete Wooding

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Command And Control
  • Community Of Practice
  • Complex Systems
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Analysis
  • Intelligence Analysts
  • Intelligence Community
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • Knowledge Management
  • Organizational Structure
  • Perception
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Self Organizing Systems
  • Thinking

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Systems Analysis and Design