Today The Watermark Institute announced the first lecture in a continuing lecture series sponsored by the Institute. “Reciprocal Net Assessment” will be presented by Dr. Mark Mateski.
Dr. Mateski is the president of Alternative Analysis, LLC. He also runs Red Team Journal and teaches systems engineering and analysis for The George Washington University. As both an analyst and a manager at a number of defense and security organizations, Mark has directed wargames, conferences, studies, and assessments covering a range of topics. He has been a thought leader in red teaming for well over a decade, having founded Red Team Journal in 1997. Additional areas of specialty include systems analysis, deception and counterdeception, and wargaming.
Good decisions aren’t always easy, especially when your rival seeks to mislead you. Your rival, of course, faces the same challenge. Traditional analysis techniques tend to adopt one view or the other, leaving the reciprocal interactions inherent in conflict unexamined or, at best, examined only by accident or intuition.
Reciprocal net assessment (RNA) is a diagrammatic method designed specifically to address this challenge. RNA encourages you, the analyst or decision maker, to consider the perceptual aspects of conflict explicitly and systematically. By varying aspects of perception and misperception using RNA, you can generate critical scenarios your intuition may ignore. These scenarios may, in turn, help you avoid common decision pitfalls and better understand patterns of deception.
When asked why the Institute was starting a lecture series, Matt Branigan, the President of Watermark Risk Management International, LLC said “We are fortunate to be a member of a great network in a dynamic and important field – critical infrastructure protection and risk management. Through our association with members at the top of their profession, like Dr. Mateski, we’re able to offer a series of lectures with new and exciting perspectives and different approaches to addressing the challenges of security, resiliency, efficiency and effectiveness. Some of our lectures will introduce new systems or technologies, some will teach new methods of problem solving, and some will simply serve to continue the debate necessary to ultimately solve some of our most pressing problems.”
The lecture series will be free, but will be limited to invitation only. “We’re limiting the number of participants so the lectures will be small enough to ensure interaction among the group”, Matt Branigan related. “We want to challenge conventional thinking – and even challenge the lecturers when appropriate. Our goal is to stimulate discussion and analysis – develop interest and momentum and provide a forum for progress. Dr. Mateski has developed a novel approach and a new decision support approach, and is the perfect example of the type of thought leadership we will bring via this lecture series.”
Invitations will be provided to leaders in government, industry, and academia. Each lecture will be followed by a networking reception. For more information on the program, visit the institute’s website at www.watermarkinstitute.com/seminars, or contact Josh Schubring, the Director of the Watermark Institute, at josh.schubring@wrmi-llc.com .
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