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Private/Academic Partnership in Intelligence Analysis Training: The South African experience IAFIE Monterey, US April 2008

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A presentation I gave during a conference in March 2008 at International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) in Monterrey, US in April 2008. It deals with my experience in establishing a unique partnership between my company (4Knowledge) and Stellenbosch University in providing certified intelligence training to African clients.

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Private/Academic Partnership in Intelligence

Analysis Training: The South African

experienceIAFIE Monterey, US April 2008

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Background

• National security/political analyst with Foreign Intel Agency

• Training and KM specialist in Domestic Intel Agency

• Started own training& consulting companyin 2007

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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”.

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SA National Qualifications

Framework 2009

Short courses

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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)

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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

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Personal journey …

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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

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Academic partnership

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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

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Individual

Stellenbosch approach Two Human Dimensions

Organization Dynamics

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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

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Organisation

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Programme Model

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Interdisciplinary / multidisciplinary?

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Transdisciplinary

South Africanpotjiekos / pot food

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Philosophy

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

Discipline: learning within the unknowable)

• Powerful metaphor for creative & transformational thinking

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Applying the metaphor to IA

Diamond• Cut• Carat• Clarity• Color

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

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Our reality… smaller numbers, diversity

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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