What are the Real Risks of Knowing and Not Knowing - Leading Knowledge on Cyber

摘要

This paper represents the unclassified deliberations of the authors based upon research, assessment, analysis and application in the areas of Knowledge Management and Command and Control. This paper is written against the backdrop of the strategic failure of many Western Institutions, as witnessed on 9/11, in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Great Recession. At the same time there has been a wish to control, censure and manipulate more, notably within Cyber and seemingly correlating to an increase in damaging leaks that have further undermined the credibility, authority and standing of the political, those do with s r te (security, safety, trusts and assurances) and the economic. The great freedoms bestowed on us by our forebears are under threat more, it seems, from a collective failure to re-design the knowledge enterprise economies that will secure our futures than any existential threat, per se. At the same time, the perceived and actual failure of Western Institutions has given strength to those tyrannies, extremists and regimes whose advantage is antithetical to the wellbeing of Liberal Democracy and the peoples they serve to represent. We have been here before, as testified by John Winthrop and Presidents Kennedy and Reagan when they spoke, respectively, of a city upon a hill , constructed and inhabited by peoples aware of their great trust and their great responsibilities and of a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, Godblessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports humming with commerce and creativity . As our Armies return battered from more than a decade fighting, it is necessary to move from the fought to thought as we design and build afresh. We examine information, data and knowledge and take forward concepts for Information Capture and Knowledge Exchange (ICKE) in Cyber. We consider leadership and management of the emerging Knowledge Enterprise Economies and how we may make the best use of our resources and peoples, military, civil and veterans. This paper examines some of the challenges we face as we commence this step change to a new future.