Intelligence Enterprise

I spent a lot of time this semester on the introspection of my academic, professional, and personal milestones. I’m almost half way through my sophomore year, but I feel that the clarity of my goals and motivation has been blurred. My experiences this year has diversified my ambitions rather then narrow them.

The 2nd annual Security Analysis and Risk Management Association conference last May gave me insight into the intelligence community and national security industry. My internship with Exelon Corporation gave me some perspective on the challenges of operational security in the enterprise and also provided an opportunity to participate on an innovation project within the company. The trip out to Google and San Francisco for the Google Online Marketing Challenge fired up my interests in entrepreneurship and the Valley. More recently, I signed up to work on a Kenyan social entrepreneurship project that will hopefully implement a prototype cell-phone based social network by next summer. All of these interests, whether at an intelligence agency, enterprise, or a start-up, share a common theme of innovation, responsibility, and technology.

Enter Intelent.

Intelent is a mashup of the words intelligence and enterprise. I based this idea on the theory that a decision advantage can be achieved by the fusion social media technology, operational security, and intelligence analysis. Maybe one day I’ll take this to next level and create a startup. For now, the Intelent blog will focus on issues in technology, entrepreneurship, security, and intelligence.