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Research Topic Description, including Problem Statement:
'Intelligence is only as good as the use made of it' *1. Intelligence and decision-maker partnerships are a type of cross-functional collaboration. The characteristics of cross-functional collaboration (CFC) that create benefits for organizations are why this collaboration is difficult for leaders to cultivate and manage. Organizations typically recognize the benefits of cross-functional (also known as 'intra-organizational', and 'cross-team') collaboration between members of diverse functions, which can result in innovation, creativity, problem-solving and several other employee development opportunities *2. However, the diversity necessary to create CFC often involves separate reporting lines, divergent experiences and perceptions, and teams with different cultures and priorities. Although CFC should result in performance gains, leadership intervention is necessary for this collaboration to realize its full potential *3. Sub-optimal collaboration between decision-makers and intelligence groups can nullify even the most insightful intelligence and negatively impacts organizational capability and culture, reducing the potential effectiveness of national security and law enforcement operations. Organizations expect intelligence functions to influence decision-making—without authority. Studies consistently observe poor relationships between intelligence and decision-making groups in law enforcement institutions such as negative attitudes, resistance to collaboration, dissatisfaction, conflict and low levels of trust *4. Further, practitioners and scholars find that these cultural barriers cause these institutions to 'struggle to innovate successfully', develop 'suboptimal strategists', and enable cultural vulnerabilities that 'lead to suboptimal strategic outcomes' *5. Previous research in public and private sectors provides substantial theoretical and practical implications that assist leaders to address CFC problems.6 However, these theories remain largely unexamined in national security and law enforcement environments highlighting several unanswered questions and valuable research opportunities.
Example Approaches:
Research proposals could approach this issue from a variety of disciplines, or as a cross-disciplinary effort. The problem aligns with social and behavioral science and psychology and management fields of study. An obvious approach would be from an organizational psychology perspective. Given the limited research on this topic there would be benefit in quantitative (survey instruments), qualitative (interviews or focus groups) or both of these in a mixed-methods approach within NIC agencies. This could include measuring concepts using previously tested tools for measurement. Further, interviews and focus groups could elicit richer explanations of the unique NIC institutional inter- and intra-functional and agency drivers and barriers to collaboration, situational awareness, intelligence integration.
Relevance to the Intelligence Community:
Effective collaboration is a significant enabler of strategic thinking practice and culture. In Defense, national security and law enforcement environments where strategic challenges are wicked and uncertainty is constant—effective collaboration between intelligence and decision-making functions is a priority to facilitate 'strategic innovation'.7 This research has the potential to improve: intelligence integration and collaboration technologies; political, strategic, economic and ’drivers of conflict’ research and analysis; ‘red-teaming’, ‘war-gaming’, scenarios and course of action analysis; enhancing cognition, comprehension, NIC recruitment, training, talent and career management, learning and decision-making.
References:
Key Words: Intelligence and decision-maker collaboration; intelligence integration; strategic thinking; strategy development; innovation and creativity; intelligence-driven decision-making; course of action analysis; leadership and culture; hierarchical institutions; national security; law enforcement.
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