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www.SAP.com Biography
Mr. Swanson currently works for SAP AG and most recently Oracle Corporation's CEO office as Director, Global Business Intelligence. His specialty is strategic and tactical intelligence collection and cultural intelligence Group Disposition Analysis^tm. He has served in both private Industrial/Economic Intelligence capacities and public sector contracting under Delphi International Research (www.delphiresearch.us). He is a part-time academic advisor and instructor to Covert Action, I&W, and Intelligence-related International Economics graduate/undergraduate programs.

Scott has given a number of presentations and published articles regarding Globalization, Human Asset Networking, Indications & Warning, Requirements' Definition, Threat Analysis, Intellectual/Physical Property Containment, counterintelligence exercises, and Maritime Port Security Vulnerability/Threat Assessments. Latest research includes LTTE "Sea Tiger" activities in the Malacca Strait and North African Social Culture. His most recent publications appeared in the Vanguard Journal of the Military Intelligence Corps and the Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin. Scott's educational background consists of a M.S. in Strategic Intelligence from the American Military University, a graduate certificate from Drexel University, and a B.A. in Foreign Language Culture and Communication (French, Arabic, and Spanish studies). He is currently working towards a PhD in Behavioral Social Psychology.

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Session BI11: Business Session Kick Off:
Leveraging Advanced Cultural Intelligence: Global Threat Aversion in the Public and Private Sector
February 18, 9:00 - 9:45 Intelligence Net Assessments™ to Improve Situational Understanding
Abstract:
Government intelligence requirements have historically blended with aspects of corporate affairs or political influence, which can then turn to a military intelligence requirement. With the increase of global urban conflicts, the trend will likely continue in the future. From the corporate side, those businesses directly linked to the government or military have become involved with intelligence requirements, leaving those companies without such involvement in the dark. Due to restrictions on both sides of the public and private sector, collaboration with regard to national intelligence tasking and sharing strategic information is not always a viable solution. Such separations then require the government intelligence functions to include broader acumen to their talent pools, and similarly corporations must enhance their fundamental intelligence capabilities.

To date, however, many U.S. companies remain very conservative and unwilling to embrace more comprehensive efforts in collection, analysis, and counterintelligence, typically limiting their focus on competitors or market segmentation. Similarly, many of the government agencies remain conservative and unwilling to embrace realistic efforts to hire valuable individuals from the private sector to facilitate the missing global environmental factors of intelligence and national policy. Intelligence specialists on both sides need to find common ground with a common solution to close the gap and create a starting point for collaboration.

Globalization of economies and rising terrorist threats require such collaboration to embrace the skills and expertise that understand more than competitive markets and battle calls. Topical issues related to foreign culture, religions of the world, economies, social-political structures or movements, emerging threats, crime syndicates, and terrorism all need to be considered individually and as a whole. One method, Cultural Intelligence net assessments using group disposition analysis, focuses on intelligence collection and analysis on environmental factors to assess individual perspectives, behavioral patterns, indicators of Intent and Will, and can be used by both public and private sector to mitigate such risks. Benefits of its use are found in peacekeeping, inter-cultural working relationships, negotiation, SoSA JIPB urban warfare preparation, coalition/partner building, civil affairs, psychological operations, etc.