Four Stages Allocated Between Two People

Stage	Percentage of of Overall Efforts	First Person	Second Person	Approximate Ratio
Needs	20%	7%	13%	1:2
Collection	30%	27%	3%	9:1
Analysis	40%	7%	33%	1:5
Dissemination	10%	9%	1%	9:1
Totals	100%	50%	50%

As you can see, this shows the need for two relatively complementary persons. That is because of the difference in skills, and even personalities, required in an ideal staffing situation.

There is now ample evidence that purposeful staffing to acquire people with this radical a divergence in skills, attitudes, and perspectives can provide important contributions, which are not possible from more traditional models of staffing. To obtain the kind of finished intelligence product needed by management today requires managers to understand and work with these skills in newer, nontraditional ways.