Utilizing the Military-Business Synergy

We use the Lockwood Analytical Method for Prediction (LAMP) very heavily for intelligence analysis. The LAMP method was developed by Col. Jonathan Lockwood in the early 1990s while he was a Fellow in the Director of Central Intelligence (i.e., “CIA Director”) Analyst Program. Dr. Lockwood was a military intelligence officer and retired from the US Army Reserves as a Colonel.

Our application of a military conception to non-military use is not the first time that businesses and economic organizations would be learning from the military. For example, the concepts of Strategic and Tactical Planning, which are used by businesses and organizations today, were developed by the military. It was also the military, precisely, the U.S. Army, that worked with the Bell Labs engineering company and major American universities in the 1940s, to perfect the statistical sampling techniques that are widely used in business and organizational operations today. Again, Scenario Planning and War Gaming exercises, which first emerged following the Second World War, as methods for military planning are widely applied in businesses and organizations today. The examples are numerous. Businesses and organizations have thus, applied those military concepts in analyzing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as political, economic, social, and technological factors that can influence their competitive environments.

It will be a mistake to think that the competitive intelligence process is the same thing as strategic planning or analysis. No. In fact, it is a much more advanced intelligence technique upon which strategic, operational or tactical planners can rely, so they can perform their jobs more effectively. Furthermore, our overall intelligence gathering and analytic systems stress strict adherence to ethics and professionalism. It thrives on specialized investigative research and mathematical coding and analysis, which can then be expanded with computers. It does not involve spying as it derives its data from open sources. Many companies, organizations, and even nations and their leaders have no idea of how much trail of information and clues they leave, even their simple words, for the trained intelligence professional to catch and for the sharp brain to dissect, sift and reconstruct. This way, intelligence experts are able to easily develop their complete profiles as well as decode their next logical moves. This is especially so as we have made tremendous advances in neuro-cognitics, analytics and integrated them with our dynamic data mining abilities and computer simulation.

A major uniqueness of the LAMP system derives from fact that it is the only analytic process, so far, that combines various critical aspects of the traditional analytical techniques and also stresses and deeply evaluates perceptions of actors who have direct influence on the issue being analyzed. It enables analysts to go deep into their “brains” and at the same time, to mathematically calculate the possibility of their expected actions to transform into other actions that will lead to completely different events. It works on the principle that the future is the sum total of all interactions of "free will," both on an individual, corporate and national scales. It is a very precise scientific process that leaves no room for ambiguity. Yet, we must emphasize that it is never going to be easy to predict the future, no matter the tool somebody uses. As such, All Hands' analysts do not claim to bestow the gift of prophesy upon anybody. However, the LAMP technique has clearly proven to be beneficial and more accurate in exploring contrasting potential developments in political and military arenas. Now, we have taken the technique to the business world.

So, this has been another advancement of a sophisticated military conception to civilian use.
 

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