In today’s world, creativity is a collaborative effort and innovation is a team effort. The need to scale adaptability and cohesiveness of small teams up to the enterprise level to address complex challenges requires the cultivation of actionable knowledge. This new approach requires changing the traditional concept of the leader. The role of the leader becomes changing the broader environment instead of command and control micromanaging. The goal is a state of emergent, adaptive organizational intelligence – making shared consciousness the cornerstone of transformation.

The LEADS INSTITUTE maximizes effectiveness through a blended approach of Strategic Analysis focused on evaluating Political, Economic, Social and Technological (PEST) factors in which the investigation of collaborative capacities yields insights about Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT).

Added is Operations Research (OR) analysis in relationship to specific projects and incorporation of big data analytics where appropriate in order to enable those within a given security community to act on information that is produced through their individual and collective experiences, in which the “need to share” becomes a priority in the management of information.

 

The LEADS INSTITUTE also offers each client a strong analytics and visualization component to help users rapidly make sense of the vast knowledge available. With the increasing amount of knowledge available and the volume of data available, having information/data at one’s fingertips can lead to information overload. Having the ability to make sense of it through data analytics and visualization is key to making knowledge actionable. Analytics and visualization can also help break down information silos and bring about holistic and systems approach necessary to imagine the creative solutions to tomorrow’s challenges. It is fundamental to anticipating, detecting, and understanding the problems.

The LEADS INSTITUTE “Powered by Digital Mind” helps each client develop a resource center where key knowledge can be easily accessed. We believe that considering the rapid speed at which knowledge accumulates, an actionable resource center should be designed with the goal of making the right content available to the right person at the right time. Here, knowledge curation through artificial intelligence, automated multi-lingual capabilities, and universal knowledge grounded in localized experience are key desirable technical features.