Intelligence Tools for the Digital Age
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Duration | 8 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Intelligence Tools for the Digital Age at Coursera Highlights
- Offered By IE Business School
- inlcudes peer graded assignments, exercises and quizzes
- Learn from eminent faculty of IE Business School
- Requires effort of 2 hours per week
Intelligence Tools for the Digital Age at Coursera Course details
- First, this course explains some of the skills that will command a premium in the digital age, and why. Then, it offers you mental models and practical frameworks developed by the US intelligence community to give you a cognitive edge understanding the digital world. This edge is not about spying or secrets. It's about better thinking. This analytic toolkit has nothing to do with tired, static MBA-style strategy frameworks. Instead, these tools to help you come to grips with the volatility, uncertainty, ambiguity and deception of the digital age. Ultimately, this course makes the case that as the world becomes more digital, your future success depends most of all on asking better questions of both yourself and others. Therefore, it teaches you how to adopt an intelligence analyst's question-asking mindset. In short, take this course to acquire a sustainable business advantage through clearer, more structured thinking.
- This course provides you an answer to these questions, and it does so from a unique perspective: by introducing you to the world of intelligence analysis.
Intelligence Tools for the Digital Age at Coursera Curriculum
WEEK-1-A Toolkit for the Digital Future: Intelligence Analysis for the Business Professional
Course Overview
The World of Intelligence
Introduction to Module 1
What is a Digital Centaur?
Computing Power vs Brain Power
A word on the Readings for Module I
Working in Symbiosis with this new form of Intelligence
Soft Skills will become the New Hard Skills
Are you smart?
Hypotheses Generation & ID and Culture
Importance in the diversity of team composition
What Is Intelligence?
Augmented Intelligence
Secrets are like Pringles
Conclusion to Module
WEEK-2-The Intelligence Analysts Mindset
Introduction to Module II
Question Clustering
Long- Term Strategic Understanding
The Intelligence Cycle
Why Disproving is Important
A Map of Knowledge and Ignorance
A few Words on the Readings for Module II
Relevance vs. Rigor
Start with an 0utside View then Work Inside
A Few Traps
Conspiracies: A Skeptic´s View
Conclusion to Module II
WEEK-3-Intelligence Methods: Analysis, Part One (Macro Actors) The Case of Chinese Rare Earth Elements
Introduction to Module III
What are Rare Earth Elements?
Chronologies and Timelines
Key features: Life as a chess game
Rational /Unitary Actor Model: Finding the evidence
Rational /Unitary Actor Model: Who are the actors?
Key features: Life as a soccer match
Organizational Process Model: Finding the evidence
Organizational Process Model: Who are the actors?
Key features: Life as a poker game
Personal & Bureaucratic Politics Model: Finding the evidence
Personal & Bureaucratic Politics Model: Who are the actors?
There are limits to all rational actors
Conclusions to Module III
WEEK-4-Intelligence Methods Analysis, Part Two: Micro actors (understanding people/organizations)
Introduction to Module IV
The limits and the dangers
What is Placing?
Where to start the Timeline
Placing Milo Jones
Making Deductions and finding hooks
Where, Why and When you need to know how to Place
Timeline/Chronology Technique in Placing Organizations
Why Placing Organizations in Important
A few Words on the Readings for Module IV
Conclusion to Module IV
Conclusion to the Course
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