Training
for CI End Users
For the end users of CI, the training process must not only
be ongoing, but it should actually broaden over time. For these end users,
experience shows that the key areas to be covered by such training are CI
techniques and ethical and legal issues.
Here, the explicit goal is to use both these subject areas to make
these end users of CI into better customers. Thus, the
goals of this regular training are to control, and eventually eliminate,
unreasonable client expectations. Such training is also a significant aid in
preventing improper (i.e., unethical or even illegal), intelligence requests
from these end users.
One proposal is that, at a minimum, such a course provide a basic
understanding of the entire CI process as well as an "awareness of the
analytical capabilities of the [CI] under their control." [3] There are several reasons why
this should be an ongoing, and not just a onetime, process:
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Over time, the identity of the end users of CI will
change.
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The intelligence needs of existing end users will gradually
develop as they benefit from the previous work of the CI unit (see Chapter 9).
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The identity of competitors, and even the nature of
competition, will change over time.
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Information sources will vanish and appear, changing the
nature of the data that can be collected for analysis.
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Legal and ethical considerations governing the collection of
the raw data may change.