Decentralized Intelligence

“What Toyota can teach the 9/11 commission about intelligence gathering… But when a failure is one of imagination, creativity, or coordination�all major shortcomings of the various intelligence branches in recent years�introducing additional control, whether by tightening protocols or adding new layers of oversight, can serve only to make the problem worse. To understand this, we need to step outside government bureaucracy for a moment and take a look at the world of industrial organization, which has had some valuable experience in recovering from major mistakes.”