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Strategic Intelligence

Strategic research and intelligence can be broadly defined as research that addresses issues at a level of breadth and detail to inform policies, strategies and programmes, and to assist decisions on resource allocation.  It aims to be relevant for months or years; being "immediately actionable" is not its priority.  Strategic Intelligence outputs therefore tend to be relevant to phase formulating policies and strategies.

Strategic intelligence supports evidence based policy by providing:-

intelligence to inform the design and implementation of evidence based policies, strategies and programmes - i.e., doing existing things better; and intelligence to direct the choice of which policies to follow and which issues to tackle and target resources at - i.e., looking to the future and doing new things.

Click here to see examples of our strategic intelligence and research work.