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Garin, Thomas A.

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"Focused free thinking" in military intelligence analysis: Lessons from best practices.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Focused free thinking" in military intelligence analysis: Lessons from best practices./
Author:	Garin, Thomas A.
Description:	328 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1956.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-05A.
Subject:	Political Science, Public Administration. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3133272
ISBN:	0496805121

"Focused free thinking" in military intelligence analysis: Lessons from best practices.
Garin, Thomas A.

"Focused free thinking" in military intelligence analysis: Lessons from best practices. - 328 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1956.

Thesis (D.P.A.)--University of Southern California, 2003.

Organizational intelligence combines bureaucratic processes with group and individual modes of analysis and assessment. By examining exemplary articles from the Military Intelligence Digest of the (United States) Defense Intelligence Agency, and interviewing their authors and their audiences and customers, we try to derive prescriptions for doing "good" intelligence analysis. Analysts are "focused free thinkers," using systematic (or "scientific") methods to discipline their intuitions and insights. We provide various examples of "focused free thinking," and describe it more generically.

ISBN: 0496805121Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017438
Political Science, Public Administration.

"Focused free thinking" in military intelligence analysis: Lessons from best practices.
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520 $a Organizational intelligence combines bureaucratic processes with group and individual modes of analysis and assessment. By examining exemplary articles from the Military Intelligence Digest of the (United States) Defense Intelligence Agency, and interviewing their authors and their audiences and customers, we try to derive prescriptions for doing "good" intelligence analysis. Analysts are "focused free thinkers," using systematic (or "scientific") methods to discipline their intuitions and insights. We provide various examples of "focused free thinking," and describe it more generically.
520 $a Focused free thinking includes obvious notions such as revisiting the main question, defining a situation from chaotic data, and rewriting their document continuously. We found analysts also used a specific set of principles embedded in their writing process to focus their thinking on key aspects of their work. These principles were a common thread among all the examples investigated in this study. "Good analysis" adheres to these principles and at the same time meets customer quality standards.
520 $a Customers tend to think that the analysts are merely intuitive. Analysts might be more explicit about their structured techniques, and improve how they communicate the degree of certainty in their analysis. Analysts made trade-offs among the standards for analysis: accurate, timely, relevant, usable, comparable, objective, and available. Stakeholders might provide feedback based on the standards. Generally, there is a lack of alignment between the analysis activity and the people, the formal organization, and the informal organization---even in these best practices. This coordination process might enable a more appropriate alignment.
520 $a Instructors in analysis might use the "logic model" we discovered from our interviews and exemplary articles when teaching less experienced analysts. That model includes: inputs necessary to do the analysis, the writing process, specific outputs, outcomes conforming to the standards, and the desired results. This model shows how the principles of analysis can be practically implemented as inputs to the analysis process and embedded within the writing process.
520 $a The major contribution here is a phenomenological description of focused free thinking, an account of appropriate standards and principles of analysis, a pedagogy for training, and a discussion of organizational intelligence in practice.
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