STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS COURSE

RISC is proud to offer this 10-day course, designed from the ground up and accredited by the UK ACPO National Analysts Working Group. Key areas covered in the course include:

Understanding of the role and placement of strategic intelligence products within UK Local Government Agencies and Law Enforcement, including Strategic Assessments under the National Intelligence Model (NIM)

Introducing students to new thinking skills, for example interrelationship digraphs; futures wheels; and triangulation; as well as the more traditional topics of vertical and lateral thinking and brainstorming.

Problem and task definition, including stakeholder analysis; certainty & uncertainty; and time framing.

Development and framing the Terms of Reference, including: context analysis; and negotiation with clients and stakeholders.

Collection planning and data management, including: analysis of data needs, sources, limitations and uses; data evaluation in a real-time setting; security and auditing.

Integration, interpretation and analysis of information, including the use of: logic; traps & pitfalls; factor analysis; key dimensions and the value of PESTELOM (the M is Media) analysis; scenarios; futures cones.

Statistical interpretation as an aid to the development of strategic intelligence products, including: statistical perspectives; advantages & limitations to statistical applications.

Articulation of analysis – the production of key judgments and the need to produce meaningful product, including: identification of key issues & judgments; futures projections; building on certainty while accommodating uncertainty; risk identification, assessment & management; and possible, plausible, probable and preferable futures.

Delivering the product, including: telling, pitching & selling; the use of NIM templates; continuity, clarity & substantiation in language and content.

Review methods, including: meeting client needs and TOR; benchmarking; feedback; peer review; determining future needs.

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