Intelligence Tools for the Digital Age
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Intelligence Tools for the Digital Age
IE Business School
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Digital technologies are changing business, government and society worldwide. Clearly, they’re opening up new risks and opportunities for every sector of the world economy. Such “futurology” may offer you the big picture, but what does a digital world mean for you, personally? Will you be ready for an automated, AI-assisted, big-data-driven employment future?
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. 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.
Programme du cours : ce que vous apprendrez dans ce cours
Week
1A Toolkit for the Digital Future: Intelligence Analysis for the Business Professional
15 vidéos (Total 41 min), 2 lectures, 1 quiz
15 vidéos
Course Overview2 min
The World of Intelligence2 min
Introduction to Module 12 min
What is a Digital Centaur?3 min
Computing Power vs Brain Power3 min
A word on the Readings for Module I2 min
Working in Symbiosis with this new form of Intelligence2 min
Soft Skills will become the New Hard Skills2 min
Are you smart?2 min
Hypotheses Generation & ID and Culture5 min
Importance in the diversity of team composition1 min
What Is Intelligence?3 min
Augmented Intelligence2 min
Secrets are like Pringles2 min
Conclusion to Module I2 min
2 lectures
The Chess Master and the Computer20 min
Suggested Readings30 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Module I30 min
Week
2The Intelligence Analyst’s Mindset
12 vidéos (Total 42 min), 3 lectures, 1 quiz
12 vidéos
Question Clustering5 min
Long- Term Strategic Understanding1 min
The Intelligence Cycle5 min
Why Disproving is Important2 min
A Map of Knowledge and Ignorance4 min
A few Words on the Readings for Module II1 min
Relevance vs. Rigor3 min
Start with an 0utside View then Work Inside5 min
A Few Traps3 min
Conspiracies: A Skeptic´s View4 min
Conclusion to Module II1 min
3 lectures
The Intelligence Cycle Explained20 min
Thinking Straight: Cognitive Bias in the US Debate About China20 min
Suggested Reading20 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Module II30 min
Week
3Intelligence Methods: Analysis, Part One (Macro Actors) The Case of Chinese Rare Earth Elements
14 vidéos (Total 47 min), 2 lectures, 1 quiz
14 vidéos
What are Rare Earth Elements?3 min
Chronologies and Timelines7 min
Key features: Life as a chess game3 min
Rational /Unitary Actor Model: Finding the evidence2 min
Rational /Unitary Actor Model: Who are the actors?1 min
Key features: Life as a soccer match2 min
Organizational Process Model: Finding the evidence5 min
Organizational Process Model: Who are the actors?1 min
Key features: Life as a poker game2 min
Personal & Bureaucratic Politics Model: Finding the evidence4 min
Personal & Bureaucratic Politics Model: Who are the actors?2 min
There are limits to all rational actors2 min
Conclusions to Module III3 min
2 lectures
Required40 min
Suggested Reading20 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Module III30 min
Week
4Intelligence Methods Analysis, Part Two: Micro actors (understanding people/organizations)
12 vidéos (Total 31 min), 4 lectures, 1 quiz
12 vidéos
The limits and the dangers2 min
What is “Placing”?2 min
Where to start the Timeline2 min
Placing Milo Jones3 min
Making Deductions and finding “hooks”3 min
Where, Why and When you need to know how to “Place”1 min
Timeline/Chronology Technique in Placing Organizations4 min
Why Placing Organizations in Important3 min
A few Words on the Readings for Module IV1 min
Conclusion to Module IV1 min
Conclusion to the Course1 min
4 lectures
Strategic Empathy10 min
Turning Gadflies into Allies10 min
The Evolution of Market Campaigns10 min
Suggested Reading10 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Module IV30 min
Enseignant
Milo Jones
Professor at IE Business SchoolGeopolitics in the Digital Age
À propos de IE Business School
IE Business School is an internationally recognized business school where the leaders of tomorrow shape their ideas and learn to become global citizens. For over 40 years, IE Business School has promoted innovation and change in organizations, equipping managers with an entrepreneurial mindset that generates employment, wealth, and social well-being.
Regularly featured among the top business schools in the world, IE Business School has an urban campus in Madrid and a faculty of more than 400 professors who teach students from approximately 90 countries in its undergraduate and master programs. IE uses innovative online, face-to-face, and blended learning formats, including the IE Communities Platform where knowledge and experiences are exchanged with over 50,000 IE graduates that currently hold management positions in more than 100 countries worldwide.
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