Analytic Intelligence Production

How to craft intelligence to support operations and decision-making.

Course Description:


This course is designed to increase intelligence analysts’ ability to create clear, concise, relevant, and useful analytic intelligence products.  In this course, we will explore framing topics for specific audiences, asking relevant focus questions, generating insightful analytic messages, and crafting storylines to carry these messages with confidence.  Under instructor guidance participants will create a written analytic intelligence report and/or the slides and support material for an analytic intelligence briefing, then conduct structured peer reviews of these products.  Participating analysts should already know their problem set and be familiar with their organisation’s format and standards, and arrive to the course with both a topic they plan to work on and the background research already completed.  



At the end of this course, participants will be able to:



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Who this course is for:

This course is ideal for intelligence analysts of all experience levels to develop their analytic production skills.

 

Course Prerequisites:

There are no prerequisites, but we strongly recommend taking our Tradecraft Standards of Intelligence Production course first.  Participants should already have a good understanding the fundamentals of analytic intelligence tradecraft and tradecraft standards.

 

Duration:

In-Person Classroom Training: 5 Days, 7 hours of instruction per day*

Virtual/Remote Training: 5 days, 3.5 hours of instruction per day*

* We offer this class both as an in-person classroom event and as online, remote instruction.  While the material and instruction is consistent between the two, we are able to offer practical exercises and personal instructor support to the training in-person that we are not able to offer remotely.


What you will receive at course completion: