Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

 

SI Consultancy assesses how policy could impact upon commercial interests in the Middle East. 

 

SI Consultancy mitigates risk, identifies opportunities and anticipates future trends by merging the various strands of security, history, culture, ideology and religion. This enables governments, organisations and corporations to:

 

• Deliver consistent high quality best practice

• Inform & develop corporate frameworks

• Stress test against current legal and operational environments

• Support and facilitate major investment

• Address transformation & business change management

• Develop the business case and justification for major technological or  human capital investments

• Drive enhanced organisational performance

• Incorporate systems of governance and review/anticipate change

• Assure the ability to meet the future needs of the organisation in an effective, efficient, economical, and ethically sustainable fashion

 

SI Consultancy help operating companies and strategic investors identify, assess, and forecast political risks when entering into or expanding within international markets. This is an essential engagement as a precursor to large-scale integration or transformation initiatives.

 

Barak Seener’s forecasting of policies and their security and economic impact along with the SI team of experts offers companies actionable insight to help them meet their global business objectives. SI experts measure the comparative stability of areas in the Middle East, deploy both quantitative and qualitative assessments to provide timely information and analysis due to their unique ability to look at things through different lenses such as policy, security, history, culture, ideology and religion. They take existing problems on key political drivers, highlight global events, evaluate their repercussions and make progress by demonstrating the economic and financial opportunities that may exist.

 

Public and Private Sector Association

SI also assesses how the private sector can not only mitigate risk, but also  come together with the public sector to shape policy and serve as a stabilising influence, offering sustainable and inclusive growth in given territories.

 

Integrated Research

SI integrated research platform can be customised for each client depending specific business models, risk tolerance, humanitarian interests and industry sectors. SI is fully conversant with established and developing international laws and standards of business compliance. Compliance with these laws is at the core of SI culture and strategies enabling clients to navigate their way through risk and even reduce risk by making a humanitarian impact.

 

Media Reporting versus Analysis

Traditional media report what happened in narrative form often without any analytical depths. Examples include the media’s portrayal of the Arab Spring as simply being protestors seeking a Madisonian democracy or civil war in Syria without the geo-political, financial and security repercussions. SI not only will relay what happened, free of bias and agenda, but also offer proprietary information and share proprietary analysis that includes the historical, ideological and economic reasons why it happened. This provides a context for understanding how ‘today's hot item’ is actually part of an ongoing narrative of developing events that proceed to develop a trajectory of forecasting future events.

 

Skills and Experience

Mastering the complex and often veiled dynamic where government, politics, media, and business intersect requires a rare combination of knowledge, skills and experience. SI senior consultants have worked with/for: think tanks, governments, the military, police and intelligence agencies, top-tier management consulting/ legal firms, investment banks and defence and innovation companies. 

 

SI analysts monitor political, economic, cultural, social, and security developments. They also examine cross-border issues such as trade, energy, commodities, financial regulation, climate change, and global health. A geopolitical analysis allows SI experts to place an event or action within a larger analytical framework to determine its potential significance, as well as identify connections among seemingly disparate trends.

 

Actionable Insights which Realises Value

Ultimately, SI delivers dispassionate, accurate and actionable insight for its clients. Whether they attend SI conferences, subscribe to SI publications or contract to SI consultative services, they  choose SI for guidance when they are operating in uncertain environments. SI helps them make informed and accountable strategic decisions which realise value.