Introduction The Intelligence Cycle is a process to help you visualize the steps involved in the production of intelligence. Intelligence should be thought of as the output, while information or raw data is the input. The data goes into a system, is processed (by human beings) and emerges intelligence. Intelligence is commonly thought of as…
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Key Assumptions Check for Intelligence Research
The Key Assumptions Check is a simple way to begin an intelligence analysis or research project. Despite its simplicity, it is also extremely powerful, because it allows us to question the underlying assumptions that we make influencing our decisions and thought processes. Because of confirmation bias, we often exclude information from our worldview or from…
What is Social Listening?
Social listening is an area of customer (or client)-relationship management that, as the name implies, involves listening to social networks. This is important both for for-profit companies who want to know if their customers are having poor experiences on social media and non-profits who want to make sure that they are serving their customers the…
Sociometry
Sociometry is the study of social relationships, invented by the psychiatrist and sociologist Jacob Moreno. Similar to link analysis, sociometry involves using a tool called the sociogram, a graphical representation of social links. Sociograms can be used to graph the communication between people over a long period of time (days, weeks or months), like a…
Link Analysis
Creating a Link Analysis Link analysis is a simple technique used in intelligence analysis to demonstrate the connections or relationships between people. It is commonly used in social science research, criminal investigations and national security. The first step to link analysis is to collect the data, and decide on a coding scheme. An example coding…