Services
Making Sense of Uncertainty
Our service offerings are uniquely placed to help organisations explore the potential paths and pitfalls that permeate the environment in which they operate and to craft strategies and plans to succeed in uncertain times.
Successful organisations know how to make sense of uncertainty and to navigate a path that builds on current successes and leads to future success. These organisations shape their environment in ways that promote their interests and hedge against the forces that can derail them from their desired path.
They deliver success through being better at sensemaking than their competitors and being agile enough to adjust their plans as circumstances change.
Sensemaking today is much harder than just reading the standard newspapers and journals or monitoring social media for trend information. We live in a world of information overload, opinion masquerading as fact and polarised ideology. Understanding cause and effect, influences and actors, strategic trends and passing fads can overwhelm even astute organisations.
Navigating a path through the complexity – deciding what is a safe path and what is a strategic cul-de-sac – requires deep expertise and experience, a strong understanding of the tectonic forces that shape the world we operate in and an ability to build strategies and plans that incorporate today’s needs and tomorrow’s demands.
We can help you do that – having developed both international and national strategies that aim to put organisations on the right side of history!
Analysis
We provide detailed, specific and targeted analysis of the geostrategic forces affecting nations, governments and organisations.
We have an unparallelled sense making network – with an ability to access multiple sources of objective information and assessment, and individuals with decades of experience in delivering on success – all designed to winnow down the most relevant information and risk intelligence to keep you aware of, and ready for, the next crisis.
Our networks span international affairs, international regulatory systems, critical and emerging technologies, information and communications technologies and cyber security, national and open source intelligence, national security and defence planning, capability development, net assessments, risk management systems, national governance arrangements, national resilience planning and emergency management.
Our analysis is specifically targeted to your needs, expertly identifying the issues that matter the most to you and supporting your strategic needs.
Managing Risks
We deliver trusted advice on how to manage risk and find opportunity in the midst of deep geostrategic forces.
We have decades of experience in providing advice at the highest levels to Governments, international organisations and commercial organisations on current and future events and trends, international affairs and the strategic forces shaping our world.
We employ multiple techniques and complex systems analysis and design methodologies to deeply understand your challenges and support you in developing strategies and plans to manage risks in your operating environment and find the right opportunities for future success.
Whether your challenge is how to operate internationally, nationally or in your market, and no matter the size of your organisation, we can provide you with trusted advice on how to be agile, resilient and versatile – giving you a competitive advantage that can lead to success today and tomorrow.
Planning
We provide futures and scenario planning activities, leadership workshops and Board and C-suite exercises to assist organisations prepare for an uncertain future.
Scenario planning and futures analysis are proven tools for helping organisations take control over an uncertain operating environment, illuminate the core assumptions that are driving current strategies and performance and develop strategies for shaping their actions and hedging against risks.
Exercises and wargames at Board and C-suite level can bring alive the esoteric and help executives to deeply and emotionally understand the issues at stake in their organisation. Such exercises have been demonstrated to be instrumental in shaping future success for both public and commercial organisations struggling to deal with uncertainty.
With over 30 years of experience in delivering futures and scenario planning activities – at national and international levels – specifically designed to illuminate strategic challenges and identify pathways to the future, we can help you to build an understanding of the current and future environment in which you operate and navigate a path towards future success.
Strategy
We deliver strategies, plans and governance arrangements that can enable organisations to plan a path to success amidst geopolitical tensions and rising geostrategic risks.
Building a strategy for success today and into the future is no easy task. Successful organisations:
Understand why they do what they do,
How the environment in which they operate informs and influences their business, their competition and their customers,
How their operating environment is daily changing,
What their competitive advantage is, and may become, and
How their resources (financial, intellectual and human) can best be applied to build success.
Often, being in the midst of the daily struggle to produce results, respond to the market and manage the current crisis reduce the ability to look beyond the fray at the forces that will shape the organisation over the longer term.
With decades of experience of looking into the future, of analysing the core and fundamental levers of success and devising strategies for success, we can assist you to build strategies, plans and governance arrangements that will enable your organisation to succeed.
ADvice
We provide advice on how to manage legislative, regulatory or other barriers to success.
All companies are facing an increasingly complex set of legislative and regulatory requirements – some of which come from national governments and some from international sources. These requirements create new and novel burdens on organisations seeking to operate in Australia and in the international environment.
Our experience in understanding the current and prospective legal and regulatory burdens across multiple jurisdictions, in Australia, Europe, the United States and Asia, can help organisations position themselves to meet these requirements with the lowest burden, in cost, time and administration.
