Randolph H. Pherson

Walter Voskian

Roy A. Sullivan (Jr.)

"This Guide is one in a series of publications from Pherson Associates, LLC, devoted to enhancing the rigor and improving the craft of analysis. It complements other publications in the series that examine the need for critical thinking skills, the utility of structured analytic techniques, writing as a tool of analysis, and managing analysts. Rather than focusing on theory, the Guide takes a practical and experience-based approach to briefing, reflecting the perspectives of longtime practitioners. The first-hand experiences of the authors and their colleagues in the intelligence community help illustrate the Guide's core concepts. Detailed guidance is drawn from course materials used by the authors to teach effective briefing and digital communications techniques to analysts in the intelligence, law enforcement, security, financial, and business sectors." -- Preface.

Analytic Briefing Guide

Richards J. Heuer Jr.

The Third Edition of Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis by Randolph H. Pherson and Richards J. Heuer Jr showcases sixty-six structured analytic techniques—nine new to this edition—that represent the most current best practices in intelligence, law enforcement, homeland security, and business analysis. With more depth, detail, and utility than existing handbooks, each technique is clearly and systematically explained. Logically organized and richly illustrated, and with spiral binding and tabs that separate techniques into categories, this book is an easy-to-use, comprehensive reference.

Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis

John Pyrik

Analyst's Guide to Indicators

Katherine H. Pherson

Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence

Randy Pherson struggled with a medical condition for five years before getting a proper diagnosis. This book distills what the author has learned into 16 actions a person can and should take to ensure quality health care. How to get the right diagnosis will help you live to tell your story by teaching you the techniques intelligence analysts use to communicate with medical professionals. Many know from experience that the medical system can be difficult to navigate. This book takes the confusion out of the process and helps you get the proper treatment you need.

16 Tips for Navigating the Medical System (Emergency Medicine, Doctors, for Readers of the Real Doctor Will See You Shortly)

How to Get the Right Diagnosis

Katherine Hibbs Pherson

With this second edition of Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence, Randolph H. Pherson and Katherine Hibbs Pherson update their highly regarded, easy-to-use handbook for developing core critical thinking skills and analytic techniques. This indispensable text is framed around 20 key questions that all analysts must ask themselves as they prepare to conduct research, generate hypotheses, evaluate sources of information, draft papers, and ultimately present analysis. New material includes a chapter on working with statistics and probabilities at an introductory level; discussions on how to work with social media; managing the “big data” phenomenon and what role analysis plays both at the front and back end of utilizing such information. Each of the book’s chapters are consistently organized, enabling students and analysts alike to easily trace the key steps of: Setting the Stage; Looking More Deeply; Key Takeaways; Considering the Case Study, and the book’s illustrations include useful graphics that diagram and display the processes and structured analytic techniques for arriving at the best possible analytical products. The “Analyst’s Roadmap” provides an at-a-glance “map” for readers depicting the best practices involved in perfecting the analytical product. A set of carefully crafted case studies on national intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement issues illustrate how to apply these critical thinking skills tie directly to end-of-chapter questions, providing valuable self-assessment opportunities.

Sarah Miller Beebe

In their Second Edition of Cases in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Analytic Techniques in Action, accomplished instructors and intelligence practitioners Sarah Miller Beebe and Randolph H. Pherson offer robust, class-tested cases studies of events in foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, terrorism, homeland security, law enforcement, and decision-making support. Designed to give analysts-in-training an opportunity to apply structured analytic techniques and tackle real-life problems, each turnkey case delivers a captivating narrative, discussion questions, recommended readings, and a series of engaging analytic exercises.

Structured Analytic Techniques in Action

Cases in Intelligence Analysis

With Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence, Katherine Hibbs Pherson and Randolph H. Pherson have updated their highly regarded, easy-to-use handbook for developing core critical thinking skills and analytic techniques. This indispensable text is framed around 20 key questions that all analysts must ask themselves as they prepare to conduct research, generate hypotheses, evaluate sources of information, draft papers, and ultimately present analysis, including: How do I get started? Where is the information I need? What is my argument? How do I convey my message effectively? The Third Edition includes suggested best practices for dealing with digital disinformation, politicization, and AI. Drawing upon their years of teaching and analytic experience, Pherson and Pherson provide a useful introduction to skills that are essential within the intelligence community.

Randolph H. Pherson

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