ABSTRACT
Intelligence community (IC) leadership, particularly at the operational level, may play out differently in a range of diverse organisational contexts such as the national security, law enforcement/homeland security, military, and private sectors. This chapter is organized into three main headings: key governance challenges, addressing governance challenges, and leadership attributes. It defines intelligence governance as ‘a set of attributes and rules pertaining to strong leadership, doctrine design, evaluation and effective coordination, cooperation and integration of intelligence processes’. The chapter summarizes the big intelligence governance challenges IC leaders are confronting towards how these may be addressed in the future. On the technological advantages of various freely available information and communication technologies (both social media and secure/encrypted devices), another respondent argued that this was due in part to: risk aversion and poor investment in developing secure inter agency communications. Arguably, one overarching HR governance theme arising from the analysis of survey results was an even greater focus on strategic workforce planning capabilities.
