Building a better intelligence machine: A new approach to capability review and development

In this paper we propose a new approach for managing capability within organisations that are engaged in identity-attribution or identity-enrichment exercises. Specifically, we believe that a modelling framework which uses a bottom-up data-driven approach encapsulates the most appropriate abstraction of capability. In particular, that this should be agnostic (but aware) of the type of capability provider (whether a technology, service or a human) and that the capability framework be independent of specific staff or skill groups. In this way our approach could avoid the limitations of solely driving strategic capability enhancements through siloed role or skills-based staff pools, which are necessarily biased towards the staff management frameworks and potentially limit the strategic outcome.