Quadrant Crunching

Quadrant Crunching has proved to be a highly efficient and effective technique for generating an extremely broad set of alternatives when faced with very little data and high degrees of uncertainty. The technique is adapted from Alternative Scenarios forecasting and is extremely useful for discovering “unknown unknowns.” The primary benefit of the technique is that it helps analysts, policymakers, and military decision makers set priorities and generate specific sets of field requirements in response to highly ambiguous threats. The technique helps analysts think through how such an attack would be launched, what the most likely targets would be, and what signposts or indicators would suggest that a specific attack is in the early stages of implementation.

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