A presentation I gave during a conference in March 2008 at International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) in Monterrey, US in April 2008. It deals with my experience in establishing a unique partnership between my company (4Knowledge) and Stellenbosch University in providing certified intelligence training to African clients.

1. Private/Academic
Partnership in Intelligence
Analysis Training:
The South African
experience
IAFIE Monterey, US April 2008

2. Background
• National security/political analyst with
Foreign Intel Agency
• Training and KM specialist in Domestic
Intel Agency
• Started own training
& consulting company
in 2007

3. Our education system
“The NQF is intended to overcome the
imbalances 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”.

4. Short courses
SA National
Qualifications
Framework 2009

5. Diploma in Intelligence Analysis
• 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)

6. The Harsh Reality
✖ Lack of political leadership
✖ No uptake @ gov schools (lack of
capacity, disinterest)
✔ 1st time all agreed on what intel
analysis is
✔ The process has been more important
than the outcome

7. Personal journey …

8. Approach to Intelligence Analysis
• Broader, integrative Decision-support
function rather than secret state function
• Applicable to all spheres where sense
has to be made of myriad of conflicting,
sometimes deceptive information to
enable decision-making

9. Academic partnership

10. Stellenbosch approach Two Human Dimensions
Organizational theory
Diversity, Change
Individual & Transformation
Group Dynamics
Group
Structures & Processes
Organization Organizational Learning
Dynamics Organization
Systems & Project Design
Communication
The Knowledge Economy
Knowledge Network Society
Society
Society Society of organizations
Globalization

11. Two Knowledge Dimensions
KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE
TECHNOLOGY DYNAMICS
Knowledge System Design Taxonomies and ontologies
KM System Architecture Research logic
Decision Support Systems Sense making
E-Business Modeling Complexity and Systems
Information management Scenario Building
Artificial Intelligence

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13. Interdisciplinary / multidisciplinary?

14. Transdisciplinary
South African
potjiekos /
pot food

16. Philosophy
• Prismatic learning/analysis…
• Robert Flood (Rethinking the Fifth
Discipline: learning within the
unknowable)
• Powerful metaphor for creative &
transformational thinking

17. Applying the metaphor to IA
Diamond Intelligence Analysis
• Cut • Continuous process
• Carat • Complexity - conscious
• Clarity • Collaborative
• Color • Catalyst

18. Our reality… smaller numbers, diversity

19. Application in classroom
• 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