Monitor key interests

In a world where supply chains are global, so are the threats. It is more difficult for companies and governments to monitor all the events and issues which can damage their interests.

Our network model means that we can monitor events affecting our clients' interests in any sector in any part of the world. More importantly, our experts can tell you what's just noise and what is critically important to you.

  • Daily Brief Services

    Our flagship subscription service provides monitoring and unique judgements on events and trends. Available in global, regional and sectoral editions, we use profiling features to deliver analysis matching your interests, saving you time.

  • Global Stress Point Matrix

    A unique, powerful methodology offers formal monitoring of your own interests or our selection of major global risks, with daily quantitative change assessments.

  • The Political Economist

    A monthly subscription service in print and online, reviewing major global trends

Private Sector

  • Risk Consulting

    Our risk offering includes monitoring of issues identified as key risks to your organisation.

Public Sector

  • Country/Regional Consulting

    Clients extend the life of our country/region reports by commissioning monitoring or regular updates.

  • Transnational Issues Consulting

    Our flexible, multi-disciplinary network is perfectly placed to deliver continuous monitoring of issues which closely affect your interests.

  • External Relations Consulting

    Our media-scanning and expert-opinion-gathering skills allow us to monitor how well strategies to change external relationships are working.

Case Study

Latin America Monitoring

The Client

An international development agency

The Issue

Confronted with a high volume of urgent operations-related issues, the client's management team needed help in strengthening its capacity for long-term strategic planning

The Approach

We developed an Early Warning Service which regularly delivers brief, creative analyses of long-term strategic trends which could have a significant impact on the institution.

In every fortnightly report, our experts identify and analyse between three and five trends. Regular brainstorming within our team of experts helps to draw out the implications for Latin America and the operations of the agency.

The Result

The client’s management use our analyses of strategic trends at the highest levels to improve their strategic foresight and planning.