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Strategic Issues Monitor (SIM)

Identify, analyse and monitor the trends that have the most impact on your organisation.

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Our service assists clients in proactively managing strategic, operational, and reputational risks, uncovering areas of engagement that add value to their organisation, and identifying opportunities for expansion into new markets or sectors. It is also an essential tool for pre-empting emerging reputational risks.

Strategic Issues Monitor (SIM)

Our service assists clients in proactively managing strategic, operational, and reputational risks, uncovering areas of engagement that add value to their organisation, and identifying opportunities for expansion into new markets or sectors. It is also an essential tool for pre-empting emerging reputational risks.

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The problem

  • Organisations need to proactively id​​entify, track, and assess the impact of trends on their strategy, operations, investments, and policies.
  • This matters both with regard to the direct operational environment, and as a means of keeping abreast of external macro developments that could affect them. Organisations need to be able to capture this analysis concisely, regularly, and consistently.

The solution

  • We work with our clients to identify the primary issue areas in which their interests are exposed.
  • We then liaise with our country and sectoral experts to assess the associated trends, their drivers, strength, and impact. Related developments are subsequently monitored, their implications are assessed, and trend updates are delivered on a regular basis.

We work with clients to:

  • Prioritise the operational and macro trends that will heavily influence your strategies, customers, operations, and potential investments
  • Access thorough current and forward-looking assessments of trend strength and their varying levels of impact
  • Relay any noteworthy events and developments that can inform trend strength or impact
  • Elevate your organisation’s embedded understanding of the operating and macro environments, at both geographic and thematic levels
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Identify, track and assess the impact of the trends

Our Strategic Issues Monitor (SIM) service helps organisations maintain comprehensive and concise oversight of issues and trends shaping their operating environment. It is fully tailored to our clients’ thematic and geographic areas of relevance and their preferred frequency of updates.

A baseline report serves as the foundation for monitoring, followed by regular updates on ongoing developments and their implications.

Compare the strengths of trends

Each trend is subject to forward-looking analysis, including the key drivers of the trend, current indications of the manifestation of the trend, the trend’s significance for the operating environment, and the future direction of the trend.

We also assign a rating to each trend. Ratings allow our clients to compare the current strength of the trends and visualise their expected trajectory over a defined, forward-looking timeframe.

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