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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.

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Milo Jones

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Geopolitics in the Digital Age

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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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Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

A Toolkit for the Digital Future: Intelligence Analysis for the Business Professional

2 hours to complete

15 videos (Total 41 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

15 videos

Course Overview2mThe World of Intelligence2mIntroduction to Module 12mWhat is a Digital Centaur?3mComputing Power vs Brain Power3mA word on the Readings for Module I2mWorking in Symbiosis with this new form of Intelligence2mSoft Skills will become the New Hard Skills2mAre you smart?2mHypotheses Generation & ID and Culture5mImportance in the diversity of team composition1mWhat Is Intelligence?3mAugmented Intelligence2mSecrets are like Pringles2mConclusion to Module I2m

2 readings

The Chess Master and the Computer20mSuggested Readings30m

1 practice exercise

Module I30m

Week2

Week 2

2 hours to complete

The Intelligence Analyst’s Mindset

2 hours to complete

12 videos (Total 42 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz

12 videos

Introduction to Module II1mQuestion Clustering5mLong- Term Strategic Understanding1mThe Intelligence Cycle5mWhy Disproving is Important2mA Map of Knowledge and Ignorance4mA few Words on the Readings for Module II1mRelevance vs. Rigor3mStart with an 0utside View then Work Inside5mA Few Traps3mConspiracies: A Skeptic´s View4mConclusion to Module II1m

3 readings

The Intelligence Cycle Explained20mThinking Straight: Cognitive Bias in the US Debate About China20mSuggested Reading20m

1 practice exercise

Module II30m

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Intelligence Methods: Analysis, Part One (Macro Actors) The Case of Chinese Rare Earth Elements

2 hours to complete

14 videos (Total 47 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

14 videos

Introduction to Module III2mWhat are Rare Earth Elements?3mChronologies and Timelines7mKey features: Life as a chess game3mRational /Unitary Actor Model: Finding the evidence2mRational /Unitary Actor Model: Who are the actors?1mKey features: Life as a soccer match2mOrganizational Process Model: Finding the evidence5mOrganizational Process Model: Who are the actors?1mKey features: Life as a poker game2mPersonal & Bureaucratic Politics Model: Finding the evidence4mPersonal & Bureaucratic Politics Model: Who are the actors?2mThere are limits to all rational actors2mConclusions to Module III3m

2 readings

Required40mSuggested Reading20m

1 practice exercise

Module III30m

Week4

Week 4

2 hours to complete

Intelligence Methods Analysis, Part Two: Micro actors (understanding people/organizations)

2 hours to complete

12 videos (Total 31 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz

12 videos

Introduction to Module IV1mThe limits and the dangers2mWhat is “Placing”?2mWhere to start the Timeline2mPlacing Milo Jones3mMaking Deductions and finding “hooks”3mWhere, Why and When you need to know how to “Place”1mTimeline/Chronology Technique in Placing Organizations4mWhy Placing Organizations in Important3mA few Words on the Readings for Module IV1mConclusion to Module IV1mConclusion to the Course1m

4 readings

Strategic Empathy10mTurning Gadflies into Allies10mThe Evolution of Market Campaigns10mSuggested Reading10m

1 practice exercise

Module IV30m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR THE DIGITAL AGE

by PGOct 3, 2020

I really enjoyed the course. Exams were really hard, so you really had to be focused and understand the course.

by ATJan 2, 2020

I think it is a good course cause it helps to analyze data in orden to take a good decision, also it promoves to avoid bais in any tool of analyze.

by KMJan 4, 2021

The instructor was very engaging and the way he presented information kept me hooked! This course is very important in the current contexts and the changes occurring in our digital world

by MJNov 27, 2019

It was a bit boring but quite helpful. The lectures should be made a bit fun as I know I could've complete the course long before if it was fun.

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