Analysts in the intelligence community (IC) have to perform many different tasks, including—but not limited to—answering the questions posed by their customers, providing warnings, and monitoring and assessing current events and new information (Fingar, 2011). In performing these tasks, they must consider the quality of information; the meaning of observed, reported, or assessed developments; and sources for additional information. The quality of each judgment is a function of the evidence, assumptions, analytic methods, and other aspects of the “tradecraft” at each stage of the process. As a result, IC analytic judgments are no better than the weakest link in any of the chains of analysis.
The IC has a long track record of successfully applying a wide variety of approaches to its tasks. It has, however, made limited use of behavioral and social sciences approaches used by other professions that face analogous problems. Those neglected …show more content…
Bush’s revision of Executive Order 12333 in July 2008. (Hastedt 2009, 422)
As the IC workforce undergoes generational change and faces untold new challenges in addressing the threats and opportunities of a globalizing, interdependent world, the Community must do a better job of all-source analysis. Improvement begins with recruiting inquisitive, well-informed, critical thinking, knowledge-equipped talent. Then, it must be buttressed by expanding, retaining, rewarding, valuing, and using their expertise, while encouraging a willingness among analysts to take risks and test new ideas and new perspectives. (Miller 2008,
The IC has a long track record of successfully applying a wide variety of approaches to its tasks. It has, however, made limited use of behavioral and social sciences approaches used by other professions that face analogous problems. Those neglected …show more content…
Bush’s revision of Executive Order 12333 in July 2008. (Hastedt 2009, 422)
As the IC workforce undergoes generational change and faces untold new challenges in addressing the threats and opportunities of a globalizing, interdependent world, the Community must do a better job of all-source analysis. Improvement begins with recruiting inquisitive, well-informed, critical thinking, knowledge-equipped talent. Then, it must be buttressed by expanding, retaining, rewarding, valuing, and using their expertise, while encouraging a willingness among analysts to take risks and test new ideas and new perspectives. (Miller 2008,