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Societal intelligence (SOCINT) is a social discipline that uses information collection and analysis approaches of a part of the human society, divided into organizations, people, resources and processes in order to understand, learn or adapt to this system for a purposed goal of providing guidance and direction to assist leaders in their decisions.

Five categories of organizations exist: military, economic, social, cultural and technological. Societal intelligence applies to any social or cultural organization. Military organizations are covered by military intelligence, economic organizations are covered by economic intelligence, technological organizations are covered by technical intelligence. It is important to distinguish between societal and social intelligence:
 * Social intelligence is the capacity to know oneself and to know others.
 * Societal intelligence is the capacity to know one's own organization and to know other organizations.

Therefore societal intelligence is organization-centered, while social intelligence is human-centered.

Intelligence gathering disciplines are used in process of performing SOCINT in order to gather information on the organization targeted and produce intelligence reports.

Areas of study may include, but are not limited to:
 * The administrative structure of the organization,
 * The human resources structure of the organization,
 * The financial resources of the organization,
 * The communication of the organization,
 * The informatic system of the organization (to be differentiated from the information system).
 * The operational environment, hostile, friendly and neutral organizations, suppliers and clients, people in this organization, and other broader areas of interest.

Intelligence activities are conducted at all levels, from tactical to strategic.