What do they offer as motivation for a business to spend time, money and energy on business intelligence?

对于一种商业动机来说，花费时间，金钱和精力上在商业智能上，BI能够提供什么呢？

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The president would spend at least a half hour going over what happened overnight, what the intelligence community was picking up about threats to the country.

总统至少要花半个小时,来了解过去一晚发生的事情，了解情报局选取的,可能威胁国家的信息。

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That said, ordinary Americans find it impossible to assess whether they get good value for the billions they spend on intelligence.

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Business groups spend to get intelligence and minimize political risk.

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It helped produce the success of the last decade: not a single follow-up al Qaeda attack in the U.S. Exclusive reliance on drones and a no-capture policy spend down the investments in intelligence that made this hiatus possible, without replenishing the interrogation-gained information needed to predict future threats.

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