How Military Intelligence Experience is Converted to Commercial Career Success

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How Military Intelligence
Experience is Converted to
Commercial Career Success
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12:00 Noon Eastern /// Wednesday 7 January 2015
~ featuring ~
Tony Rivera Derek Johnson

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Tony Rivera
Tony Rivera is a Retired Marine intelligence officer with over 24 years of
progressive experience collecting, analyzing, managing, and solving
organizational intelligence issues in complex global environments. As an
intelligence officer, Tony served at all levels within the Marine Corps and
Joint DoD environment. Tony has a Master’s Degree in Intelligence
Studies with a concentration in Competitive Intelligence. Currently, he is
the Director of Analytics and Regulatory Intelligence for GE Healthcare’s
Quality, Regulatory and Medical group.
Email: tony.rivera@ge.com
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Agenda
► Military Intelligence vs. Corporate Intelligence
► Transferable Skill Sets: Military to Corporate
► Leveraging Military Best Practices
► Elevating Intelligence Disciplines
► Summary, Q&A and Discussion

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Objectives
►Recognize the transferable skill sets between
military and corporate intelligence
►How to maximize corporate intelligence
programs by leveraging military best practices
►Understand how similarities between both
arenas can elevate the intelligence disciplines
in each

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Who is Tony Rivera?

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Military Intelligence…what it is and what it is not!

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Military Intelligence vs. Competitive Intelligence
► Supports the commander's estimate of the
battlefield
► CI supports C-Suite landscape estimates
and business decisions
► Develops the situation (Intelligence
Preparation of the Battlefield)
► CI answers Key Intelligence Topics (KITs)
and Key Intelligence Questions (KIQs)
► Provides indications and warnings (I&W)
► CI provides I&W of potential risks and
opportunities

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Military Intelligence vs. Competitive Intelligence
► Supports force protection
► CI supports counterintelligence
(protection of proprietary & confidential
information)
► Supports targeting
► CI supports strategic and tactical
business decisions
► Supports combat assessment
► CI provides a better understanding of
self performance and competitors’
strategies and tactics

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► Leader
► Lead and mentored intelligence
organizations consisting of 5 to 300
employees
► Advisors to senior (C-level) leadership
► Manager
► Project Management
► Resources and budget management
► Quick study and highly adaptable
► New assignments every 2-3 years
Transferable Skill Sets: Military to Corporate

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► Student of the Intelligence Cycle and
Practices
► Strategic Planner and Thinker
► Collection Management
► Processing and Analytical Skills
► Production Skills
► Dissemination
► Utilization
Transferable Skill Sets: Military to Corporate

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Leveraging Military Best Practices
► Every Marine is a Collector
► Company Level Intelligence Cell Course
► Tactical debriefings
► Marine Expeditionary Unit Intelligence
► Production and Analysis 75-80 % complete
in support of known or anticipated user
requirements
► Tactical Fusion Center
► Intelligence professionals from diverse
intelligence disciplines under a single roof
to provide all-source intelligence support

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Elevating Intelligence Disciplines
► Students and Practitioners of the
Intelligence
► The debate of the outdated Intelligence Cycle
► Collaboration with Academia
► Director of National Intelligence and University
of South Florida’s National & Competitive
Intelligence Program
► Eliminate or reduce Stovepipe
Intelligence
► Prevents one discipline from cross-checking
another
► Demonstrating the ROI of Intelligence
► Tangible indicators of intelligence making a
difference

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Thank you! Now how about a little Q&A?
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and dedicated to exploring how to apply intelligence methods to solve real-
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Email: tony.rivera@ge.com
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