Transforming the Intelligence Community: Improving the Collection and Management of Information

This report offers a unique perspective on transforming the nation’s intelligence community. Instead of the traditional top-down approach to reforming the work of the intelligence community to improve national security, this report offers a “bottoms-up” approach. The report recommends the creation of a new culture among front-line analysts that builds upon the lessons learned from the field of knowledge management. The report recommends combining the implicit knowledge of individual analysts with the explicit knowledge developed within their organizations. The report describes how the principles of knowledge management can be applied within the intelligence community to transform it to increase its effectiveness in the nation’s war on terrorism. Organizational Transformation