Intelligence analysis education & training in SA

Private/Academic Partnership in Intelligence

Analysis Training: The South African

experienceIAFIE Monterey, US April 2008

Background

• National security/political analyst with Foreign Intel Agency

• Training and KM specialist in Domestic Intel Agency

• Started own training& consulting companyin 2007

Our education system

“The NQF is intended to overcome theimbalances created from the apartheid education and training systems and bring together, under a single overarching qualifications framework, the certification of learning in a range of settings”.

SA National Qualifications

Framework 2009

Short courses

Diploma in Intelligence Analysis

• Interdepartmental SGB• How we would like analysts to be &

what they should be able to do • Integrating profile, job descriptions and

competencies• Fundamental, core and elective unit

standards (modules)

The Harsh Reality

✖ Lack of political leadership✖ No uptake @ gov schools (lack of

capacity, disinterest)✔ 1st time all agreed on what intel

analysis is✔ The process has been more important

than the outcome

Personal journey …

Approach to Intelligence Analysis

• Broader, integrative Decision-supportfunction rather than secret state function

• Applicable to all spheres where sense has to be made of myriad of conflicting, sometimes deceptive information to enable decision-making

Academic partnership

SocietyKnowledge

Society

Organizational theory

Group Dynamics

Structures & Processes

Organizational Learning

Systems & Project Design

Diversity, Change & Transformation

Communication

The Knowledge Economy

Network Society

Society of organizations

Globalization

Organization

Group

Individual

Stellenbosch approach Two Human Dimensions

Organization Dynamics

KNOWLEDGETECHNOLOGY

KNOWLEDGEDYNAMICS

Taxonomies and ontologies

Research logic

Complexity and Systems

Scenario Building

Sense making

Artificial Intelligence

KM System Architecture

Decision Support Systems

Knowledge System Design

E-Business Modeling

Information management

Two Knowledge Dimensions

Organisation

Group&Team

Individual

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Organisation

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Programme Model

Interdisciplinary / multidisciplinary?

Transdisciplinary

South Africanpotjiekos / pot food

Philosophy

• Prismatic learning/analysis…• Robert Flood (Rethinking the Fifth

Discipline: learning within the unknowable)

• Powerful metaphor for creative & transformational thinking

Applying the metaphor to IA

Diamond• Cut• Carat• Clarity• Color

Intelligence Analysis• Continuous process• Complexity - conscious• Collaborative• Catalyst

Our reality… smaller numbers, diversity

Application in classroom

• What can one achieve in a week?• Main learning outcomes:

– Cognitive dissonance – no mans land –journey towards self awareness & mindfulness

• Complex, multi-dimensional case study• Collaboration• Puzzles