Business Intelligence: Are We Asking the Right Question?
- Raimund Laqua
- Apr 29
- 1 min read
During our Elevate Compliance huddle this week, we explored how to transform data into compliance intelligence.
Everyone agrees intelligence is critical for business and compliance success—with companies investing heavily in data collection for dashboards and scorecards.
However, I wonder if our approach is missing something important.
Data provides explicit knowledge—information that can be easily articulated, documented, and shared.
There's also tacit knowledge—insights embodied in experience, connected to intuition, values, and ideas.
The real question we should ask is:
⚡️ How can we convert all forms of knowledge, both explicit and tacit, into meaningful business intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence has limitations because it operates primarily on explicit knowledge (data and facts).
Organizations relying on AI as their main intelligence source should recognize this constraint.
To truly elevate business and compliance intelligence, we must incorporate embodied knowledge.
We need to learn to make value-based decisions aligned with ethical principles about how things should be, rather than merely following predictions about what might happen.
While "keeping humans in the loop" with AI is commonly advocated, even this approach falls short.
Genuine intelligence requires embodied knowledge where we continuously learn to be good and behave well—what we call integrity.
As we pursue Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), let's remember that only humans can bridge the divide between what is and what ought to be (Hume's Guillotine).
This human intelligence, combining data with ethical judgment, leads us toward integrity and ultimately wisdom.
What do you think?
Join me (Raimund Laqua) every week for our Elevate Compliance Huddles where we discuss essential compliance principles to practice. https://www.leancompliance.ca/elevate-compliance-huddle
