ABSTRACT
Certainly in a time-critical sense, the unaided human mind seems unable to process, the then conduct extensive interpretive cognition on, the massive modern information input. With reference to our model of strategic analysis, the analytic process is truncated. The analyst must be a model builder because the situation is the most meaningful unit of strategic analysis. Situations may be defined as consisting of three stages: the present; processes leading to an outcome or situation result; and the result itself. The forms and associated modeling involve an analysis routine. In strategic analysis there is a crucial requirement for effective memory. An analyst must recall associations and relationships, past behaviors and past events in order to understand current information as a basis for projecting the future. For the individual strategic analyst and for a group of analysts pursuing the strategic mission, changes that indicate meaning has occurred are any and all changes in the perspective on the likelihood of strategically important situations.
