Q-1. What decisions need to be made?
Q-2. Why do the decisions need to be made?
Q-3. When do the decisions need to be made?
Q-4. Who will be using the intelligence to make the decisions?
Q-5. Is the intelligence nice to know or need to know?
Stage 2: Information Gathering
1. Planning the Search
2. When planning, consider the following:
3. Ongoing Monitoring
4. Project Related
5. What questions do you want answered?
6. What type of information is required?
7. How much information is required?
8. Which sources will you search?
9. How to Interview.
10. Determine you intelligence needs.
11. Plan your search.
12. Set a deadline.
13. Read the information as you gather it or at least at periodic intervals.
14. Remember that you will never find the perfect piece of information.
15. Remember that you will not find all the information you want.
16. Spend twice as much time analyzing as gathering.
Stage 3: Analysis.....
