Magnus Hoppe is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Business Studies at Ã…bo Akademi University, Finland, and lecturer at the department for innovation, design and product development at Mälardalen University Collage, Sweden . Before entering Academia in 1998 Magnus was a CI practitioner for eight years, serving as CIO at a media company with 125 employees.

At Mälardalen University College, Magnus developed a Bachelors program within the field of Research and Organized Intelligence.

In his research about value adding intelligence in modern organizations, he aims at identifying new ways of interpreting intelligence through using Swedish empirical data construct ideas that challenges dominating Anglo-Saxon perspectives. In his view, intelligence is an individual and organizational endeavour to overcome myopia and bounded rationality that hampers effectiveness not only in business, but in all organizations.

The seven paragraphs of Value Adding Intelligence

This presentation discusses how intelligence can be viewed as a tool for counteracting organizational drawbacks as myopia and bounded rationality that explains why organizations display blind spots. A checklist for value adding intelligence, co-developed with CI practitioners of Swedish multinationals and former intelligence personal from the Swedish armed forces will be the focus of this presentation. This inductive construct based on an empirical study carried out in 2006, identifies seven areas that must be addressed and tailored to achieve best organizational fit. The goal of these areas is to gain cultural acceptance and support for intelligence as a cultural phenomenon.

Presentation Goals:

• Learn to use a check list for immediate use in improving the CI function’s organizational fit
• Encounter a new definition of intelligence as a way of thinking, leaving pointless discussions about functional definitions
• Gain insights how to expand the CI function’s internal domain