By Richards J. Heuer Jr.
This e-book takes the particularly new suggestion of dependent analytic innovations, defines its position in a taxonomy of analytic tools, and strikes it an enormous step forward. It describes 50 ideas which are divided into 8 different types. There are strategies for: Decomposition and Visualization inspiration new release eventualities and signs speculation new release and checking out reason and impression problem research clash administration selection help every one established procedure contains a step by step strategy that externalizes someone analyst s considering in a way that makes it quite simply obvious to others, thereby allowing it to be shared, outfitted on, and simply critiqued by means of others. This established and obvious method mixed with the intuitive enter of subject material specialists is anticipated to lessen the danger of analytic errors. Our present excessive tech, worldwide setting more and more calls for collaboration among analysts with diversified components of craftsmanship and analysts representing varied organizational views. established analytic suggestions are the proper approach for directing the interplay of analysts inside of a small crew or staff. each one step in a method activates appropriate dialogue in the workforce, and such dialogue generates and evaluates considerably extra divergent info and extra new principles than a crew that doesn't use a established procedure. by means of defining the area of established analytic innovations, supplying a handbook for utilizing and instructing those suggestions, and outlining techniques for comparing and validating those suggestions, this ebook lays a typical floor for carrying on with development of ways research is completed. those suggestions are specially wanted within the box of intelligence research the place analysts often take care of incomplete, ambiguous and occasionally misleading info. even though, those useful instruments for research also are invaluable in a large choice of professions together with legislation enforcement, drugs, finance, and enterprise.
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5. Jack Davis, “Why Bad Things Happen to Good Analysts,” in Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations, ed. Roger Z. George and James B. : Georgetown University Press, 2008), 160. 6. , 13. 7. Again, these statements are our professional judgments based on discussions with working analysts using structured analytic techniques. Research by the Intelligence Community on the benefits and costs associated with all aspects of the use of structured analytic techniques is strongly recommended, as is discussed in chapter 13.
3 Indicators Validator 7. 5 Deception Detection 8. 7 Prediction Markets 9. 3 What If? 7 Delphi Method 10. 2 Structured Debate 11. 5 SWOT Analysis 12. 5 Advocacy vs. 6 Leadership and Training 13. 4 Recommended Research Program 14. 4 Argument Mapping: Does North Korea Have Nuclear Weapons? 5 Inside-Out Analysis vs. 3 What If? 5 Advocacy vs. 1 Variables Affecting Future Use of Structured Analysis FOREWORD John McLaughlin Senior Research Fellow, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency and Acting Director of Central Intelligence As intensively as America’s Intelligence Community has been studied and critiqued, little attention has typically been paid to intelligence analysis.
He noted that “a taxonomy differentiates domains by specifying the scope of inquiry, codifying naming conventions, identifying areas of interest, helping to set research priorities, and often leading to new theories. 0 Taxonomy Outline Source: 2009 Pherson Associates, LLC. 2 He also categorizes some analytic techniques commonly used in intelligence analysis, but not to the extent of creating a taxonomy. 9 After examining taxonomies of methods used in other fields, we found that there is no single right way to organize a taxonomy—only different ways that are more or less useful in achieving a specified goal.