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What Is Relationship Intelligence?
Use relationship context to support decisions while keeping privacy, consent, and data minimization in view.
A practical answer
What to know
Relationship intelligence is useful when it provides relevant professional context for a decision. The practice should be limited to information people have appropriately shared, with access and purpose made clear. More data is not automatically better intelligence.
A thoughtful next step
Try this
Define the decision the relationship information is meant to support.
Use the least sensitive context that can answer the question.
Review who can see shared information and how someone can change or withdraw it.
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