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Introduction to Intelligence Management: Purpose and Nature - ADCIM01

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Purpose: The syllabus will look at intelligence management as it relates to business affairs, statecraft, and within the context of continental and international intelligence organisations. The focus will be on the importance of intelligence management in strategic choices and decision-making and risks and threats posed by intelligence mismanagement, and failure to control and communicate intelligence. Informing intelligence management will be country legislation and compliance or organisational imperatives. Given the controversies around intelligence management, ethical issues in intelligence will form the basis of learning. The syllabus will cover: The purpose and nature of intelligence management The role of intelligence management for statecraft, continental or international bodies. Ethics and oversight in intelligence management