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Learning path 01

# Thinking in terms of intelligence

Learn to tell search, monitoring and intelligence apart, and to ask questions that matter.

≈ 2 h 10 min · Beginner

The question it answers

How do we turn scattered information into questions and better-grounded decisions?

**What you will take away** 

Question map, traceability and signal priorities.

[Start with 1.1](https://academy.innguma.com/en/thinking-in-terms-of-intelligence/searching-is-not-monitoring/)

## Five lessons

Recommended order. You can start with any of them.

1.  [1.1 Searching is not monitoring How can you show that an organisation observes what matters to it, instead of merely finding answers when someone asks? ≈ 25 min · Beginner · You take away a minimum coverage sheet for a topic that concerns you](https://academy.innguma.com/en/thinking-in-terms-of-intelligence/searching-is-not-monitoring/)
2.  [1.2 Information, monitoring, intelligence and decision How do you stop an observation from turning into a conclusion that the sources never supported? ≈ 20 min · Beginner · You take away four statements rewritten with their level of evidence](https://academy.innguma.com/en/thinking-in-terms-of-intelligence/information-monitoring-intelligence-and-decision/)
3.  [1.3 From business objectives to intelligence questions What is worth observing if the organisation has limited time and resources? ≈ 25 min · Beginner · You take away an intelligence question (KIQ) connected to a real decision](https://academy.innguma.com/en/thinking-in-terms-of-intelligence/from-business-objectives-to-intelligence-questions/)
4.  [1.4 Signals, noise and biases How do you recognise an important indication among hundreds of publications without confusing novelty with relevance? ≈ 30 min · Beginner · You take away six signals read together with their associated decision](https://academy.innguma.com/en/thinking-in-terms-of-intelligence/signals-noise-and-biases/)
5.  [1.5 The intelligence cycle: a human, continuous system How do you make the right signals reach the right people and actually change what an organisation does? ≈ 30 min · Beginner · You take away your system's minimal cycle on one page](https://academy.innguma.com/en/thinking-in-terms-of-intelligence/the-intelligence-cycle-a-human-continuous-system/)

Lab practice · L04

## Signal log

Output: Observation, source and interpretation kept separate. No sign-up required.

- [Open the tool](https://academy.innguma.com/en/lab/signal-log/)
- [All activities](https://academy.innguma.com/en/lab/)

## Learning paths

[If you want to go on… 02 · Designing a monitoring system](https://academy.innguma.com/en/designing-a-monitoring-system/)

**Download** 

-   [R01 · Map of decisions and intelligence questions](https://academy.innguma.com/en/library/map-of-decisions-and-intelligence-questions/)
-   [R06 · Log of signals and evidence](https://academy.innguma.com/en/library/log-of-signals-and-evidence/)

[Library →](https://academy.innguma.com/en/library/)

**References and review** 

Every lesson states its references and its limits.