The Analytic Production Guide examines the tasks of a first-line supervisor in an analytic unit of an intelligence organization or a company. It offers tips on how to guide analysts' production from conception to publication and delivery. The Guide is designed to complement a companion volume, the Analytic Writing Guide, published by Pherson Associates, LLC as an instructional vehicle for the analytic writer. The two publications discuss similar issues, approaching the "how to" aspects of the analytic process from different perspectives. Each focuses on the needs of a different audience-analysts and managers-and their unique responsibilities in the analytic and intelligence production process.

Analytic Production Guide for Managers of Intelligence and Business Analysts

Randolph H. Pherson

Walter Voskian

Pherson Associates, LLC

by Randolph H. Pherson, Walt Voskian, and Roy A. Sullivan, Jr. The next exciting book in Randolph Pherson's Analytic Guide series, the Analytic Briefing Guide. Analysts and managers in the government, the private sector, and non-profits are shifting the way they communicate, moving from a reliance on written narrative to a preference for oral presentations and digital displays. Briefing and digital presentations are powerful and increasingly important tools for imparting analysis. At the same time, care must be taken to prevent the erosion of critical thinking skills and their role in crafting a successful briefing. Learn the Four Traits of a Successful Briefer, The Effective Briefer's Checklist, and other useful techniques in this guide crafted by perspectives of longtime, expert practitioners.

Analytic Briefing Guide

Roy A. Sullivan, Jr.

Analyst's Guide to Indicators provides definitions for different types of indicators, reviews when best to use them, suggests several techniques for generating and validating them, shows optimal ways to present them, and describes how indicators add value to your analysis. The Guide treats evaluative and descriptive indicators most often used by medical professionals and law enforcement analysts and warning and estimative indicators commonly used in the intelligence community and the business world separately.

Analyst's Guide to Indicators

John Pyrik

Order the latest edition of one of our best-selling volumes! The 5th edition features 33 structured analytic techniques that help analysts overcome mindsets, improve their confidence levels in their analytic conclusions, harness creativity, reduce the chance of surprise, instill more rigor in their analysis, and build analytic cultures within their units and organizations. Globalytica, LLC and Pherson Associates, LLC use the Handbook of Analytic Tools and Techniques to train corporate and government intelligence analysts, managers, leaders, and policy makers worldwide. The Handbook provides a definition of each technique, advice on when to use it, a description of how it adds value to the analysis, and a step-by-step description of the specific method involved.

Handbook of Analytic Tools & Techniques, 5th edition

Richards J. Heuer Jr. and Randolph H. Pherson turn a lifetime of expertise toward formalizing, adapting, and standardizing a set of 50 of the most robust analytic techniques in use in intelligence analysis today. This ready reference showcases current and cutting-edge best practices and represents a significant leap forward in depth, detail, and utility from existing handbooks. Logically organized and richly illustrated, Structured Analytic Techniques makes it easy to navigate, reference, and put the tools to use right away. Each technique is clearly and systematically explained: when to use, value added, the method, potential pitfalls, examples of how it can be used, its relationship to other techniques, and its origins. THE TECHNIQUES Getting Started Checklist Customer Checklist Issue Redefinition Chronologies and Timelines Sorting Ranking, Scoring, Prioritizing Matrices Network Analysis Mind Maps and Concept Maps Process Maps and Gantt Charts Structured Brainstorming Virtual Brainstorming Nominal Group Technique Starbursting Cross-Impact Matrix Morphological Analysis Quadrant Crunching Basic Scenario Analysis Alternative Futures Analysis Multiple Scenario Generation Indicators Indicators Validator Simple Hypothesis Multiple Hypotheses Generator Quadrant Hypothesis Generation Diagnostic Reasoning Analysis of Competing Hypotheses Argument Mapping Deception Detection Key Assumptions Check Structured Analogies Role Playing Red Hat Analysis Outside-In Thinking Policy Outcomes Forecasting Model Prediction Markets Premortem Analysis Structured Self-Critique What If? Analysis High Impact/Low Probability Analysis Devil’s Advocacy Red Team Analysis Delphi Method Adversarial Collaboration Structured Debate Complexity Manager Decision Matrix Force Field Analysis Pros-Cons-Faults-and-Fixes SWOT Analysis

Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis

Business & Money

Richards J. Heuer Jr.

Economics

CQ Press

Analytic Writing Guide, 2nd edition

Louis M. Kaiser

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