Geopolitical Risk Advisory and Strategic Foresight
We provide Geopolitical Risk Advisory services, leveraging Manteion’s political and commercial experience to help businesses anticipate and respond to the impact of global events, such as US elections, UK political shifts, the fragmenting EU, Middle Eastern conflicts, Russia-Ukraine war, and rising tensions with China.
Manteion monitors global political developments, delivers tailored geopolitical briefings, and assesses how international affairs impact industry sectors, global corporates, and key stakeholders in those sectors and businesses. Manteion can design proactive strategies to enable a business to mitigate risks related to political events, conflict and terrorism, trade policies, economic sanctions, and regulatory changes.
Continuous Monitoring
We provide real-time updates on geopolitical changes, giving you an ongoing view of risks and emerging opportunities.
Impact Assessment
By analysing interconnected global events, we evaluate their potential effects on your business and industry.
Tailored Strategy
We work closely with your team to create a customised approach that aligns with your business goals and market position.
Illustrative Scenario: Navigating Regulatory Shifts in Med Tech
Following Brexit and the growing conflict in the Middle East, a Med Tech client faces regulatory uncertainty as the UK establishes its own regulatory system which has and may further diverge from the EU. It also faces supply chain disruption as the lucrative med tech market in Israel is impacted by the war. Manteion provides daily updates on these geopolitical developments and identifies issues for the executive to consider from supply chain disruption to breach of contract, and litigation risk.
Crisis Management and Reputational Protection
We offer a tailored Crisis Management Framework designed specifically for highly regulated industry sectors and their advisers addressing black swan events, regulatory conflict and breach, cyber-attacks, natural disasters and resource scarcity, reputational risks and public relations challenges.
Manteion will implement a robust crisis response plan, conduct risk assessments, train the crisis team in media relations, and manage external communications during crises. This can be supported with bespoke scenario experience simulation events with the core crisis response team. This includes setting up post-crisis evaluations to ensure continuous improvement.
Customised Crisis Planning
We develop a crisis response plan that’s specific to your business’s needs.
Simulation and Training
Crisis simulations ensure that your executive team and key stakeholders are well-prepared for real-world challenges.
Ongoing Assessment
Post-crisis reviews help your crisis management plan evolve with emerging threats, ensuring readiness and resilience.
Illustrative Scenario: Managing Sanctions in Energy Investments
A global business in the energy sector has Russian and Ukrainian oil and gas interests. It faces the threat of sanctions, frozen assets, and damage to its reputation. Manteion provides daily updates on the war in Ukraine and the international community’s response enabling the business to manage its risks. It also establishes a crisis management framework for the business. Simulation training ensures the leadership team is prepared for future risks, making them better equipped to protect both assets and brand.
Strategic Opportunity and Product Development
Analysing geopolitical events should be an exercise looking not just at risks posed but opportunities emerging. Too often this 360 degree approach is limited to a 180 degree insight into risks. Every problem generates an opportunity to create a solution. The carbon emissions damage to the environment spawned a new industry sector in renewables. What was a threat to oil and gas producers was an opportunity for wind and solar.
Manteion offers a strategic review of opportunities for a business, whether it is to re-engineer existing products to meet an emerging need, expand geographic or sectoral coverage or diversify into related or synergistic product or service offerings. Every business continues to face intense competition. For some it can be innovate – or fail.
Comprehensive Opportunity Analysis
We identify growth potential by analysing regulatory, market, and geopolitical trends.
Market and Regulatory Insights
With deep knowledge of global regulations, we provide strategies for adapting products to meet emerging needs.
Customised Strategic Development
We develop actionable strategic plans that align with your business goals, ensuring long-term growth.
Illustrative Scenario: Expanding a Vaccine Portfolio in a Post-Pandemic World
A pharmaceutical company with a vaccine subsidiary which developed new anti-viral vaccine solutions during the Covid Pandemic of 2020 faces flat-lining of sales as governments stabilise their preventative response to further Covid mutations and outbreaks. The inter-continental regulatory co-operation falls away. A future pandemic, whether viral, bacterial, genetic or environmental remains on all risk registers and governments begin to look for common platforms for vaccine development. Manteion researches opportunities and barriers for the pharmaceutical company. By analysing market needs and regulatory barriers, we guide the client in repositioning their vaccine portfolio to meet emerging health challenges, positioning them as a leader in pandemic preparedness.
A Final Thought
If resilience is the goal, a strategic approach to geopolitical risks and opportunities is the means to achieve it.