We never expected that – a corporative study of failures in national and business intelligence by Avner Barnea
Keywords:
israeli intelligence, The Johari Window ModelAbstract
For JISIB Barnea has previously written about
competitive intelligence in Israel (2016), about
Israeli start-ups in cyber security (2018), and
about how AI will change intelligence and
decision-making (2020).
The book, We never expected that – A
corporative study of failures in national and
business intelligence, is not on Israeli
intelligence per se. Still, the best documented
of the four cases presented come from the First
Intifada in 1993 when Barnea was well
situated to observe what was going on behind
the scenes. For 27 years, until 1997, he was the
Senior Official for Intelligence in the Prime
Minister’s office. Since then, he has been a
competitive intelligence consultant, a teacher
and student of intelligence studies and sine
2016 a research fellow at the National Security
Studies Center, NSSC.
The book, which is a translation of a book in
Hebrew, which again builds on the author’s
PhD thesis, proposes an analysis of a series of
intelligence failures. To study failures is a good
way to learn. It is a good methodology, maybe
the best. To present a book with both
government and state failures is also a good
idea from the perspective that there are bound
to be fruitful parallels. So far so good.
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