intel analysis education & training: partnership between stellenbosch university and 4knowledge
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A presentation I gave during the IAFIE conference in Monterrey, US in April 2008 on the partnership between 4Knowledge and Stellenbosch University. Unfortunately I had to give up this wonderful opportunity in December 2009 after the university changed their costing structure, making the fees for the training unrealistically expensive. It was a big eye-opener for me to realize that universities are actually in the world to make money, not to create and share knowledge...TRANSCRIPT
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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Individual Organis
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Organisation
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Group Team
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LED
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TEC
HN
OLO
GY
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DYN
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ICS
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