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Can you learn to analyze?
November 13, 2012 One of the most perplexing problems facing those in CI is analyzing raw data. It is certainly not for lack of tools. In the bibliography of our book Proactive Intelligence: The...
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Making sense of it
May 20, 2013 In analyzing data on a competitor, the first thing you have to keep in mind is they are not you. Just because you and your competitor are in the same business, making similar products or...
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Can you learn to analyze? (Part 2)
June 25, 2013 As I mentioned in a prior post on analysis, one of the ways to learn to analyze things is to read mysteries. I recently finished reading a 2002 mystery by Robert Ludlum, The Janson...
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It ain’t over till it’s over
July 15, 2013 The conclusion of the Zimmerman – Martin criminal trial illustrates an important lesson for CI analysts. Regardless of what level of interest you had in the matter, you have to admit that...
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Look away
When you try to make sense of your CI data and can’t seem to do so, what do you do? If you’re like most people, you just take a look at your notes and materials again, and you review the most recent...
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More learning about learning
September 4, 2013 In this blog, I continually comment about learning and about analysis. That is because they are both critical elements in becoming an analyst as well as maintaining your analytical...
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Zen and Analysis
February 6, 2014 I was playing an online game the other day, Taptiles, which is a three-dimensional version of Mahjong. And I found that I played better when I didn’t first play it. What? Sounds a...
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Finding analysts
Within the community of intelligence educators, there is a discussion about how to establish who are really good analysts. That is, how do we test for it, interview for it, or something else? With this...
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It’s the Internet’s fault
October 10, 2014 There are several undercurrents emerging about competitive intelligence. I see them as including the feeling that competitive intelligence is (A) easy and/or (B) not really needed...
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Lessons for CI from Games
April 14, 2016 We all have heard of game theory – how mathematical models can help us to understand how decisions are made. As you can guess, it has important applications in CI analysis. I think that...
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