Economic intelligence · Geopolitics

Expertise
& services.

Cross-checked information and analysis to understand your environment, prepare a decision and equip your teams with practical methods.

Four service categories.

Ongoing monitoring, a focused analysis or a workshop: the scope and format are tailored to your question.

Monitoring

Keep track of changes in your environment.

Competitive monitoring

Track your competitors’ activities: offerings, products, communications and business development.

Sector monitoring

Track trends, stakeholders and developments in your sector.

Regulatory monitoring

Track changes in laws, taxation and standards relevant to your business.

Geopolitical monitoring

Track political and geopolitical developments in the countries and regions relevant to you.

DeliverablesRegular monitoring reports and thematic briefs.

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Country risk and geopolitical analysis

Understand a situation and inform your decisions.

Country risk / geopolitical subscription

Regular monitoring of the situation and developments in a country or region.

Country report / risk brief

A focused report on a country or region, tailored to your question.

Security update / briefing

A targeted situation brief ahead of travel or a project.

Forward-looking scenarios — on quotation

Analysis of possible developments and their implications for your business.

DeliverablesCountry reports, briefings and scenario analyses.

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Sector reports and stakeholder mapping

Understand a sector and identify its stakeholders.

Sector analysis

A focused study of a sector’s structure, dynamics and outlook.

Stakeholder mapping

A structured overview of key stakeholders in a sector or ecosystem, their roles and relationships.

DeliverablesSector analyses and stakeholder maps.

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Training

Build your teams’ understanding and analytical skills.

Geopolitical risk workshop for executives

Understand how international developments affect your business.

Introduction to economic intelligence

Explore methods for researching, analysing and protecting information of value to an organisation.

Open-source intelligence — OSINT

Learn to find, assess and cross-check information available online.

DeliverablesWorkshops and learning materials.

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Your challenges.

  • How can you track the political, economic and monetary developments relevant to your work?
  • Which stakeholders and power dynamics shape a sector or a reform?
  • How can you strengthen your teams’ research and analysis methods?
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Areas of expertise.

The knowledge and methods underpinning these services.

Economic and strategic intelligence

Find, assess and cross-check information to understand market developments and inform a decision.

  • Competitive and sector monitoring
  • Sector analysis and stakeholder mapping
  • Source assessment and cross-checking
  • Introduction to economic intelligence and training in open-source research

International relations and geopolitical analysis

Analyse a country or region’s political, economic and security dynamics, with a focus on West and Central Africa.

  • Geopolitical monitoring and country risk subscriptions
  • Country reports and security updates
  • Forward-looking scenarios on quotation
  • Geopolitical risk workshops for executives

Political and institutional analysis

Understand the institutions, public policies and power dynamics that influence the environment in which you operate.

  • Analysis of political developments in country reports
  • Institutional and regulatory monitoring
  • Political economy and monetary issues
  • Briefs tailored to a decision-making question

Business environment and public sector stakeholders

Understand a sector, its regulatory framework and the public and business stakeholders that shape it.

  • Sector analyses
  • Mapping stakeholders and their relationships
  • Regulatory monitoring
  • Country context analysis ahead of an international project