Intelligence Tools for the Digital Age

IE Business School

About this Course

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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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Beginner Level

Approx. 8 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

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Milo Jones

Professor at IE Business School

Geopolitics in the Digital Age

6,990 Learners

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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.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

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 Overview2m

The World of Intelligence2m

Introduction to Module 12m

What is a Digital Centaur?3m

Computing Power vs Brain Power3m

A word on the Readings for Module I2m

Working in Symbiosis with this new form of Intelligence2m

Soft Skills will become the New Hard Skills2m

Are you smart?2m

Hypotheses Generation & ID and Culture5m

Importance in the diversity of team composition1m

What Is Intelligence?3m

Augmented Intelligence2m

Secrets are like Pringles2m

Conclusion to Module I2m

2 readings

The Chess Master and the Computer20m

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 II1m

Question Clustering5m

Long- Term Strategic Understanding1m

The Intelligence Cycle5m

Why Disproving is Important2m

A Map of Knowledge and Ignorance4m

A few Words on the Readings for Module II1m

Relevance vs. Rigor3m

Start with an 0utside View then Work Inside5m

A Few Traps3m

Conspiracies: A Skeptic´s View4m

Conclusion to Module II1m

3 readings

The Intelligence Cycle Explained20m

Thinking Straight: Cognitive Bias in the US Debate About China20m

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 III2m

What are Rare Earth Elements?3m

Chronologies and Timelines7m

Key features: Life as a chess game3m

Rational /Unitary Actor Model: Finding the evidence2m

Rational /Unitary Actor Model: Who are the actors?1m

Key features: Life as a soccer match2m

Organizational Process Model: Finding the evidence5m

Organizational Process Model: Who are the actors?1m

Key features: Life as a poker game2m

Personal & Bureaucratic Politics Model: Finding the evidence4m

Personal & Bureaucratic Politics Model: Who are the actors?2m

There are limits to all rational actors2m

Conclusions to Module III3m

2 readings

Required40m

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 IV1m

The limits and the dangers2m

What is “Placing”?2m

Where to start the Timeline2m

Placing Milo Jones3m

Making Deductions and finding “hooks”3m

Where, Why and When you need to know how to “Place”1m

Timeline/Chronology Technique in Placing Organizations4m

Why Placing Organizations in Important3m

A few Words on the Readings for Module IV1m

Conclusion to Module IV1m

Conclusion to the Course1m

4 readings

Strategic Empathy10m

Turning Gadflies into Allies10m

The Evolution of Market Campaigns10m

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