Category: Intelligence analysis
About intelligence analysis
Intelligence analysis brings together the different intelligence research strands for a topic. The analysis provides background (situational awareness), and explanation for events. Analysis can include a study of potential outcomes and estimates of the probability of each occurring. Analysis may also consider options for handling a situation. In the most dramatic situations, analysis indicates that current thinking or interpretation is incorrect and the wrong responses are being used – when that happens a strategic notice is issued.
Analysts stretch across multiple types of research material (comms, human sources, aerial reconnaissance, open source, etc). They tend to focus on specific areas, like the supply of materials and expertise for production of nuclear weapons.
Stories and commentary
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Sweet and Sour Chaos – escape from an intelligence agency to industry
An intelligence analyst tries to find a “purpose” after escaping from the “Agency” to industry. Konstantina must save her colleagues from disaster. … The story illustrates challenges of taking intelligence practices and adding them to project management in industry.
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Fight the unknown in risk identification, with an intelligence cycle
Risk identification in ambitious projects is difficult because of the unknowns. An intelligence cycle and agile project makes it easier.
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Stop project failures with intelligence-led project management
Stop project failures. With intelligence-led project management exceptional levels of uncertainty can be handled. Details below.
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Intelligence sector careers – advice for knowledge-workers
Career advice for 7-18 year olds considering the intelligence sector: police, commercial, defence, security, political, and environmental intelligence.
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Stop project risk analysis failure – 6 tips from (secret) intelligence estimation
Risk analysis failures in projects have a human impact for those involved, as well as a financial one. 6 tips from secret intelligence analysis.
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Spy catcher rivals – using AI in counter intelligence
Spy catchers (counter-intelligence). An intelligence analyst competes against a researcher armed with AI. Who will catch the spy first?
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“The 4 Seasons” story – elevator pitch example
Radha reread her resignation letter. It was a huge step. The Agency had been her home, and her dream.
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Hidden Beyond Detection – a spy thriller
Hidden Beyond Detection is a spy thriller set in 2014. It follows Akila Sinclair, a young intelligence analyst who must become what she hates most in order to prove herself.
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The assassination – a 2-page story of an ethical dilemma
‘Is he actually proposing a kill order? That we should become involved in an assassination?’ The intelligence researcher’s eyes widened.
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Forced confession – a 2-page story of an analyst’s dilema
The forced confession was in stilted Arabic with words that the suspect never used, and the recording from the interview had been replaced by a transcript.