Are your analytical skills and time constraints of the '9 till 5 Syndrome' affecting your ability to produce 'effective analysis'?

The Effective Analysis training programme is broken down into progressive stages which are taught as separate modules or as part of a complete process that builds on the acquired learning of each stage.

In the following stages, participants will learn how to:

Stage 1: Validation & Quality Control

• Establish an information validation model for Enterprise-wide use

• Apply standard quality assurance and quality control procedures to intelligence sources

• Ensure compliance with regulations for traceability and intelligence audit trails
  
  Stage 2: Organisation
  

• Create and manage a Trusted Information Network

• Develop an effective collection plan

• Create and manage an Intelligence Source Library
  
  Stage 3: Structure and Visualisation
  

• Index, filter and categorise sources based upon a standardised taxonomy

• Apply meta-tags to data sets and develop an Enterprise folksonomy model

• Integrate visualisation tools into analysis

• Make effective use of commercially available decisional support tools
  
  Stage 4: Analysis
  

• Properly define a particular analytical problem according to stakeholder requirements

• Apply and assign a defined methodology to improve Aerospace, Defence & Security related analysis of: Market, Industry, Geo-Politics, Technology, Risk

• Quickly identify trends and perform data correlation tasks

• Analyse social networks
  
  Stage 5: Evaluating & Reporting
  

• Reduce search efforts and focus more time on the task of analysing

• Use new media to provide effective intelligence reporting based on user needs

• Perform better analytical judgements based on access to trusted information

• Identify cognitive biases and denial and deception related to dis-information

• Become more astute in their analysis of a situation

Programme Objectives:

Turning raw intelligence into real intelligence

Hawk ISM's Effective Analysis training programme addresses real world scenarios related to time constraints and has been designed specifically to improve analytical outputs that are critical to an organisation's intelligence capability.

The module based approach is designed for analysts and professionals working within the Aerospace, Defence & Security sectors, from public and private spheres, to enhance their analytical capability and cultivate an understanding of actionable intelligence and how this can be properly achieved.

Based on a thorough understanding of:

• source validation and compliance;

• organisation of data for effective analysis;

• indexing and visualisation;

• defining the analytical problem;

• structured and predictive analytical methodologies and evaluation processes;

• and dealing with cognitive biases and denial and deception

the training programme addresses key issues related to improving the effectiveness of analysis:

• Failure to consider absent but relevant information

• Tendency to accept the easy or convenient explanation

• Giving undue weight to multiple reports from the same source

• Inclusion of discredited information

• Tendency to find a common cause for unrelated events

• Errors in judging the degree of overlap between issues

• Assigning equal importance to samples of different sizes

• Giving more weight to first-hand accounts than indirect accounts

• Linking evidence that seems superficially similar

• Giving too much weight to sensationalist or exaggerated claims

Based on key analytical parametres, the programme aims to improve the value of the analytical outputs and provide the analyst with an effective means to spend more time analysing intelligence and less time searching for information.

Due to the nature of the content within this training programme, interested parties are requested to contact us requesting the course syllabus.