Author: Austin Higgins
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Economic Warfare: The Future of Conflict
The Invisible War You wake up on a normal workday. The sun is shining. Your family is still asleep. Everything feels normal. Then, the news hits. The local currency is falling. Shipping channels are blocked, and shortages will begin in two or three days. National lending has been suspended. What you hear on television, online…
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From Data to Actionable Intelligence
Why Intelligence Fails without Discipline Introduction Most modern organizations and institutes have an abundance of data. They receive inputs from sensors, dashboards, reports, APIs, data lakes and manual feeds across nearly every domain imaginable from corporate strategy to national security. While data availability has increased, decision quality has not improved at the same pace. For…
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Risk Ordered Prioritization
Prioritization exercises often fail because they are treated as idea ranking exercises. Teams bring forward initiatives, advocate for their own work and attempt to stack rank opportunities. Debate follows. Leadership arbitrates. Delivery teams wait. The problem is not a lack of ideas. It is a lack of risk ordering. The goal of prioritization is not…