What is the intelligence cycle? Intelligence is conducted in order to answer questions, it isn’t done at random, clutching at any available information and hoping that some of it falls together in a useful way. To produce actionable results, we must be systematic in our approach to conducting intelligence. The intelligence cycle helps guide our intelligence process, from asking the question through to the delivery of a product. Every step is laid out in this cycle. The mean

What are biases? A bias is a disproportionate favouring or disfavouring of a particular idea, person, or group. This is usually in a prejudicial or even unfair manner. Biases can be conscious or unconscious (explicit or implicit, respectively). This article is concerned with cognitive biases: a systematic error in thinking that affects how we process information, make decisions, and form judgments. Most of our biases happen in the subconscious mind, they’re triggered by the