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Three Critical Factors in the Intelligence Activity: Product, Process and Personnel (the 3P Project)
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Abstract 3P derives from the three very important categories / areas in defining a reform process of
the national security intelligence analysis, namely:
– Process (the analysis activity, with his entire set of methods or means, internal procedures and standards, but also, with its various types of organiz... view more
3P derives from the three very important categories / areas in defining a reform process of
the national security intelligence analysis, namely:
– Process (the analysis activity, with his entire set of methods or means, internal procedures and standards, but also, with its various types of organization);
– Product (the results of the analysis activity, the products which are sent to beneficiaries
/ users and the feedback or the requests for information from the intelligence consumers);
– Personnel (the intelligence analyst, as well as the process of its selection and training).
Why these three P? I must confess that the idea of trying to define the analysis activity, and implicitly, the main parts of a reform in this important area for the activity of each intelligence service came following some discussions I had with colleagues, experts and
intelligence analysts. I worked, as co-author, to a paper (presented within an international forum)
concerning the evolution of intelligence analysis on these three categories: process, product and
personnel. Afterward, I found there is a whole literature that defines the management processes
(especially in corporations) or the performance in an organization / company in the 3P logic.
So, I will briefly approach, from a theoretical point of view, the subject of intelligence analysis
reform, and I will talk about practical component, starting from those three identified essential factors.... view less
Keywords
analytic theory; process management; intelligence; Romania; manpower; secrecy; organizational analysis; secret service; recruitment; national security
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Organizational Sociology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 77-97
Journal
Annals of the University of Bucharest / Political science series, 14 (2012) 1
ISSN
1582-2486
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works