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Cross impact analysis

Cross-impact analysis is a methodology developed by Theodore J. Gordon and Olaf Helmer in 1966 to help determine how relationships between events would impact resulting events and reduce uncertainty in the future.: 1 The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) became interested in the methodology in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an analytic technique for…

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Cross impact analysis

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