Corporate Security Intelligence and Strategic Decision Making

Chapter 9

Analysis

Chapter Objectives

1. To identify three major models for corporate intelligence processing.
2. To understand how intelligence analysis should begin, and its objectives.
3. To examine how sources should be evaluated to ensure that information is credible before analysis can begin.
4. To understand the central role of the analyst.
5. To outline the differences between intelligence in the corporate and government worlds.
6. To learn a selection of analytical techniques and thought processes.
7. To understand how and why analysis sometimes breaks down.
8. To learn a number of techniques to avoid major analytical pitfalls.
9. To highlight the importance of effective conclusions and summaries.

Introduction

As previously discussed, the collation and analysis ...