Pick your poison., ofc barring the entries that don’t fit the context of what we’re talking about, like ‘military intelligence’ which is ultimately just data.

If you want it in my own words, I’d say it’s how information is handled, and includes the entire sequence of receiving information, evaluating that information, making a decision based on that evaluation, and then assessing the results of that decision.

There’s more to it than just input -> output, even if it’s a really complex input or output.

How 'bout you?