Leading intelligence analysis : lessons from the CIA's analytic front lines / Bruce E. Pease.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pease, Bruce E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

United States.

Intelligence service--United States--Methodology.

Intelligence service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington D.C. : CQ Press, 2020.

Summary:

KEY FEATURES: Practical advice helps leaders of analytic units nurture insight with the understanding that it can be enabled but not manufactured. Discussion of range of different types of analysis serves leaders conducting research in areas including data analysis, security analysis, geopolitical analysis, threat warning, counterterrorism, and business climate analysis. Practical advice on judging IT tools guides leaders to the correct data science approach for various situations.

Contents:

Leading analysis is different than doing analysis

Understanding analysts

Shaping the environment

Choosing the best approach and techniques

Nurturing the new idea : creativity, insight, and innovation in analysis

Asking the right question

The hardest question : what is going to happen? : prediction and warning in analysis

Ethics in analysis

Analysis as a business

The tools of 21st century analysis

Analysis at the speed of information

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781506397153

1506397158

9781506397115

1506397115

9781506397122

1506397123

9781506397146

150639714X

OCLC:

1240715396