We provide expert, independent assessment of existing plans for risk and strategy. This involves interviews with key stakeholders and reviews of relevant documents in the context of your market space.

We focus on tacit assumptions, the facts and beliefs people hold and act on, but which otherwise remain unspoken and unexamined, and the basis of unmitigated risk and missed opportunity. We use the Grounded Theory method with semi-structured interviews to surface these assumptions; text analytics is used to deepen our understanding of the meaning and value behind what stakeholders say.

We use our extensive experience with the GBN methodology in developing a logical scenario framework to explore multiple futures for risk and opportunity. This provides the means to develop robust strategies with explicit risk mitigation.

We extend the traditional perspective of risk to include those that are socially constructed- risks that are real and based on uncertainty, but only if we agree so. Risks in the stock market for example, are largely constructed in the minds of investors; these risks may not have any physical foundation, but their impacts can nonetheless be very real. The unique benefit of understanding how risks are constructed is that they can be deconstructed.

Scenario-based strategies present clear but often difficult choices, which if not satisfactorily resolved, can compromise both effectiveness and future team work. We use a variant of the Analytic Hierarchy Process to facilitate a fully transparent, team-based ranking of optional choices.

We provide customized seminars and individual coaching to project teams- and as with all our services, transparent and full disclosure of our methodology. All software tools we use are open source and freely available.