Service Glossary
The Daily Brief services contain several different types of analysis, intended to form a complete package for the decision-maker.
Summaries
Executive Summary
An Executive Summary is paragraph-length analysis looking at a recent event or issue. It provides brief background and analysis of the likely outcomes,
and a link to our relevant in-depth analysis, whether to a new article or a back-reference, or a pointer to a forthcoming piece.
Executive Judgement
An Executive Judgement is that part of the Executive Summary which contains Oxford Analytica's own judgement on the likely outcome.
Executive Brief
Each Daily Brief service - global, regional or sectoral - has an Executive Brief which is designed for decision-makers as a key daily resource, keeping them abreast as concisely as possible with all significant developments and their likely outcomes. They contain Executive Summaries or Judgements analysed and ranked for importance by our senior editorial staff, and act for many clients, especially when delivered by email, as the "front-end" to the Daily Brief.
Analysis
Longer analysis is presented within the Daily Brief in several different forms. A standard article is roughly 1200 words, comprising paragraphs on the Subject or Event, the Significance, a Conclusion and a longer Analyis section, a consistent structure designed for fast absorption of core judgements which clients have enjoyed for 25 years.
We also run certain special-features
In-depth Analysis
There is an increasing demand to reduce analysis to the key facts absent of context. We seek through our analysis to provide you with understanding. In most cases, this can be effectively communicated through the tightly worded regular-length articles in the Daily Brief. However, there are occasions when more detailed and comprehensive analysis is required. Accordingly, Oxford Analytica has introduced In-depth Analyses to communicate the history and context in which key events are unfolding and the people shaping them.
Most recent In-depth Analysis
Profiles
Profiles show how the background, policy preferences and personality of key emerging leaders shape the issues they confront. They stem from our belief that it is impossible to predict or understand policy without understanding those responsible for making it.
Profiles are produced each week and there is an opportunity for clients who enjoy the benefits of Comprehensive Client Membership of the Daily Brief to nominate candidates for inclusion in this series.
Most recent Profiles
Idea In Action
Oxford Analytica Ideas examine key concepts in the expanding literature on political science, international relations and economics with a view to explaining their relevance to policymakers in the private and public sectors.
Each article focuses on an idea or concept that has gained widespread acceptance in the literature but whose meaning and implications may be less well understood outside of the academy.
In each article, the idea in question will be defined and analysed with reference to its value in understanding current global developments. There will be a strong focus on concrete illustrations and the lessons policymakers can draw from them. Oxford Analytica Ideas will be international in scope, with examples drawn from different parts of the world in order to provide genuine comparative insights.
Each idea will be addressed by a leading scholar drawn from Oxford Analytica’s global network of experts from universities and centres of learning around the world. The articles will be subjected to the same stringent editorial disciplines that have established a global reputation for the Daily Brief since it was first published in 1984. Oxford Analytica Ideas articles are approximately 2,000 words in length and structured in familiar Daily Brief format.
Most recent Ideas In Action
Country Profiles
Country Profiles are available to all Daily Brief clients with the aim of providing a two-page country overview of over 60 countries.
Rolling Assumptions
We are the only provider of strategic political and economic analysis to make available to clients the underlying assumptions about global trends and events on which its analysis is based. These assumptions provide a coherent analytical framework, underpinning analysis in both the Daily Brief and services from our Consulting Practice. They constitute valuable predictive tools that help reduce the uncertainty of global developments and meet Oxford Analytica's goal of ensuring that clients face "no surprises."
Rolling Assumptions are monitored during the Editorial Conference held at each morning and updated in the light of events by senior faculty from Oxford and other major universities, and Oxford Analytica's own professional analytical staff.
Summary data
Our summary data provides for each country data in three broad categories:
- Economic data, including GDP, inflation, gross fixed investment, exports/imports, current account balance, exchange rate, budget deficit, FDI, and unemployment.
- Political data, showing the form of state, head of state, political parties, type of legislature and electoral cycle.
- Geographic data, covering area, population, literacy, language and a map.
Most recent Country Profiles
