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Course High-Level Outline

• Using Strategic Intelligence
• Organization and Focus of the Class
• Background on Strategic Intelligence and Analysis
• Approaches and Processes
• Strategic Plan development, acceptance, and dissemination
  • Mission
  • Vision
  • Guiding Principles
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Threat Intelligence Perspective
  • Business Intelligence Perspective
  • Competitive Intelligence Perspective
  • Intelligence Strategic Challenges
  • Goals and Initiatives
  • Next Steps
  • Roadmap
• Stakeholder checklist and stakeholder management groups with strategic and tactical activities definition for intelligence, description of needs and products. This will include:
• The Future Use of Strategic Intelligence
• Intelligence: Role, Definitions, and Concepts
• Basic Concepts Concerning Intelligence
• The Strategic Intelligence Process – Operations to Tactics
• The Role of Strategic Intelligence and Its Impact on Stakeholders
  • Operational, Technical, Tactical
• Why Stakeholders and Executives Need Strategic Analysis:
• Strategic Analysis Leading to Strategic Decisions
• Implementing Intelligence Programs
  • The Treadstone 71 Method (Experience with several program builds globally)
• Challenges for Stakeholders to Accept Intelligence
• Stakeholder Views: Impact on Intelligence
• Intelligence as Catalyst for Stakeholders
• Integrating Analytical Support and the Stakeholder Thought Process
• Stakeholders and Self-Directed Strategic Processes, Procedures, Methods
• The Role of Intelligence Management
• Issues, Tactics, Techniques, Methods, and Principles
• Managing Intelligence Projects
• Providing Focused Leadership
  • Leading the Team
  • Understanding Issues and the Process
  • Analysis Overview
  • Collection Management
  • Production Management
    • Evaluation
    • Analysis
    • Integration
    • Interpretation
  • Types of Analysis
    • 14 Types of Analysis
  • Analytic Writing
    • ICD 203, 206, 208
    • Organization, Evidence, Argument, Sources, Pitfalls
    • Use the Title
    • Who/What, Why Now, So What, Impact so far, Outlook, Implications
    • BLUF and AIMS
    • Supervisory Actions
    • Summary Paragraphs
    • Alternative Analysis
    • Clarity and Brevity
    • Peer review
    • Reports and Reporting
      • Feedback
  • Pre-Mortem
  • Post-Mortem
  • Know your professor, get an A – Communicating Up
    • Relevance, Timeliness, Completeness, Accuracy, Usability
  • Briefing Rules
• Intelligence Analysts and Self-Management
  • High-Level Tasks
• Analyst Activities
  • Rules for developing analysts – Alignment and as collectors
  • The Role, Responsibilities, and Functions of the Analyst
  • The Analyst’s Roles and Responsibilities – RACI(s)
  • What the Analyst will face
  • Job Descriptions
• Conclusion
  • The Executive / Stakeholder’s Roadmap