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Handbook of Analytic Tools & Techniques

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The Analytic Writing guide offers a mix of strategic and tactical advice for writers of analytic papers, ranging from how to get started to how to order information in a paragraph. The objective is to show how best to inform a busy reader or decisionmaker who is often preoccupied with other tasks. It is not a book about grammar; neither is it a treatise on critical thinking. Grammar and style are undeniably important, but elegantly written sentences will fail to communicate the paper's conclusions if the flow of ideas and information is flawed. The primary audiences for the Guide are analysts working in intelligence, law enforcement, and the business world. The principles underlying the teaching points, however, are applicable to anyone seeking to communicate ideas more effectively--including high school and university students.

Analytic Writing Guide

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

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

Analytic Writing Guide, 2nd edition

Louis M. Kaiser

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