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KEY FEATURES: Practical advice helps leaders of analytic units nurture insight with the understanding that it can be enabled but not manufactured. Discussion of range of different types of analysis serves leaders conducting research in areas including data analysis, security analysis, geopolitical analysis, threat warning, counterterrorism, and business climate analysis. Practical advice on judging IT tools guides leaders to the correct data science approach for various situations.

Choosing the Best Approach and Techniques

Chapter 4 Choosing the best approach and techniques

They’d come into my office glowing. Analysts returning from stints in Baghdad and other parts of post-Saddam Iraq were energized by a “new way” of working. They talked about the clarity of the mission. They talked about playing to their strengths. They talked about unprecedented collaboration with their ops partners and sometimes their foreign partners. They talked about the liberating feeling of being “far from the bureaucracy” and having “nobody trying to tell me how to do my job.” They talked about having an impact, unaided by layers of review. With greater or lesser diplomacy, they all found a way to say, “We should work that way back here.”

Several of their ...

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