private/academic partnership in intelligence analysis training
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Private/Academic Partnership in Intelligence Analysis Training. The South African experience. Monterey - False Bay, Cape Town. False Bay, Cape Town. Cape Agulhas. God’s Window, Mpumalanga. Sossus Vlei, Namibia. Zambezi River, Katima Mulilo, Border Namibia & Zambia. Background. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Private/Academic Partnership in Intelligence
Analysis TrainingThe South African experience
Monterey - False Bay, Cape Town
False Bay, Cape Town
Cape Agulhas
God’s Window, Mpumalanga
Sossus Vlei, Namibia
Zambezi River, Katima Mulilo, Border Namibia & Zambia
Background
• Political analyst with Foreign Intel Agency
• Training and KM specialist in Domestic Intel Agency
• Started own training & consulting company in 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”.
Advanced Certificate 1( year)
yyyyy( 1 )NQF 5level
NQF 8level
NQF 6level
NQF 7level
Diploma (3 )years
Advanced Diploma (1 )year
Bachelors degree (3 )years
Advanced Diploma (1 )year
Bachelors degree (4 )years
NQF 10level
NQF 9level
Bachelors Honours degree (1 )year
Post Grad Diploma (1 )year
Masters Degree (2 )years
Doctorate Degree (3 )years
Academic Professional
SA National Qualifications
Framework 2009
Short coursesWhole qual & US
QA by SETA’s
Diploma in Intelligence Analysis
• 2003 - 2004 • 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 to enforce
✖ No uptake @ gov schools (lack of capacity, disinterest)
✖ SETA’s incompetence discredits system
✔ 1st time all agreed on intel terminology
✔ The process has been more important than the outcome
Personal journey …
Approach to Intelligence Analysis
• Broader, integrative Decision-support function rather than secret state function
• Turning data/information into actionable knowledge
• Applicable to all spheres where sense has to be made of myriad of conflicting, sometimes deceptive information to enable decision-making
Looking for an academic home…
• Unique challenges in SA• Looking at the How (IA)
rather than What (Intelligence Studies)
• Universities’ attitude towards Intel
Academic partnership
www.infoscience.sun.ac.za
Interdisciplinary?
• Interdisciplinarity : transfer of methods from one discipline to another
Multidisciplinary?
Overflows disciplinary
boundaries while its goal remains limited to the framework of disciplinary
researchA steak is a steak..
Transdisciplinarity
“pooling of disciplinary knowledge and information, technological revolutions, and the creation of networks and new forms of
knowledge” (Kleiber 2002)
Attempts to approach the object of study beyond and
across disciplinary and interdisciplinary
perspectives
Transdisciplinarity
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
MIKM: Two Human Dimensions
Organizational dynamics
Knowledge society
KNOWLEDGE DYNAMICS
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
MIKM:Two Knowledge Dimensions
KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES
Organisation
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Programme Model
Core learnings
• Its not about Things• But about flows & spaces
Partnership
• Short courses• Moderate & certify• Accreditation as electives for Post
Grad Diploma in Decision-making 2010
• Benefits for university• Benefits for me
Philosophy
• Prismatic learning/analysis… • Robert Flood (Rethinking the Fifth
Discipline: learning within the unknowable)
• It challenges our existing mental models and create a conceptual space in which some new understanding of what is happening emerges
• Powerful metaphor for creative & transformational thinking
Prismatic learning in practice
Application
• 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
Lessons learnt
• It’s actually about LEARNING, not training or education.
• “Standards” should be signposts not straightjackets
• Don’t be fixated on what makes intelligence special (?) – it alienates
• Y-generation: plugged-in rather than degreed
• By “stealth” rather than “big bang”
Future for intelligence learning
• Conduct intelligence!• Break the silo’s and ingrained
mindsets• Stay in the flow! Stay relevant!• Strengthen lifelong learning
perspective• Broadening the scope
The future (now?): knowledge workers
Prismatic Research on:
• Decision-making/Intelligence/intelligence management in complexity and uncertainty (Mittleton-Kelly, Bennets)
• Sensemaking (Karl Weick, Devlin)• 3rd generation KM: knowledge
transfer, story-telling, Cynefin, trust culture, collaboration
• Chaos theory – Zimbabwe? South Africa?
Thank [email protected]