Intelligence Communication in the Digital Era: Transforming Security, Defence and Business [Hardcover]

This edited volume argues that producers of analysis need to shift from producing static, narrative products to much more dynamic, digitally-based platforms in order to remain competitive and relevant.Introduction: The Changing Intelligence Communications Landscape 1. Communicating Analysis in a Digital Era 2. Presentational Tradecraft: A New Skill 3. Communicating Risk 4. Establishing a New Paradigm of Collaboration 5. Creating Impactful Intelligence: Communication Lessons From the Corporate Environment 6. Transforming Producer/Consumer Relations through Modeling and Computation

'The ''digital revolution'' is transforming the ways in which top decision-makers handle information. They see new forms of presentation in the products of the world's leading news organisations. The intelligence community risks losing impact and influence, and facing increasing obsolescence, unless it similarly adapts. This timely and important book addresses imaginative ways of tackling these challenges.'' Sir Richard Mottram GCB, Former Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, UK

'Intelligence Communication in the Digital Era is essential to every strategy, marketing, finance, and intelligence professional who understands that professional career viability is dependent on the ability to navigate streams of information and associated decision delivery systems. The book tells how to convey critical recommendations and executive support in clear, concise, and creative ways; capture attention at the highest levels; and provide easy access to decision support criteria that give organizations a competitive advantage. Kudos to Arcos and Pherson for authoring a resource that provides application rather than theory to the overarching requirements placed on intelligence professionals in a world where information abounds.' Nanette Bulger

Executive Director and CEO, Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)

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