As an innovation-driven risk intelligence practice, Emergent Risk International has always embraced the term “disruptor,” not as a negative or positive term, but as a change agent. Disruptors are necessary to move us out of our comfort zone, challenge our thinking and remind us that complacency is dangerous. In the world of global affairs and risk management, disruption and disruptors are generally viewed as a negative term. One that defines actors and events that challenge global stability, safe operating environments, and physical safety and security. But in business, disruptors and risk-takers...
The rapid escalation of regional conflicts can pose significant challenges for organizations operating in affected areas, particularly regarding the safety of national and expatriate employees, maintaining client relationships, and upholding supply chain, business continuity, and recovery. This interactive live in-person session presents a comprehensive geopolitical tabletop exercise that simulates a regional conflict between two countries, with one exhibiting a dominant position.
Participants will engage in a series of scenarios that require strategic decision-making and crisis management...
Geopolitical challenges are not just security issues – they cross the gamut from regulatory hurdles to environmental and social conflict – and they are ever present in our international business dealings. In this class we’ll talk about ways that leaders can use strategic intelligence to assess the impact of geopolitical trends on regulation, beyond immediate risk to operations to longer-term implications that result from changes to vendor and client requirements as well as international systems.
ERI’s series of master classes is designed for senior-level risk management and business professionals...
Artificial Intelligence can build capacity, save money, and enable security teams to work with improved efficiency, as well as with integrity. But to do this, leaders must understand and embrace the coming changes that AI will bring while building policies and awareness across the team to ensure that downside risks like disinformation and ethical considerations are always front of mind in this new frontier.
ERI’s series of master classes is designed for senior-level risk management and business professionals seeking to improve business resilience by integrating strategic intelligence into...
Build strategies for effective intelligence monitoring to assess and prepare for crisis scenarios – and support rapid decision-making during the actual event. While tactical real-time information is always needed, strategic intelligence inputs and planning ahead of time can be the difference between safe and secure personnel and operations or a physical security, legal and reputation disaster.
ERI’s series of master classes is designed for senior-level risk management and business professionals seeking to improve business resilience by integrating strategic intelligence into decision-making...
Emergent Risk International’s team will provide its annual briefing on our Strategic Intelligence Estimate 2024: Global Disruptors. Changes in global politics, economics, demographics, climate and technology are combining in ways that create new opportunities for those who anticipate and adapt but pose real risks for those who don’t. We’ll discuss the impacts of several significant elections on the horizon; the roles China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Europe and the US will play; how the climate, activism and non-state actors will influence the environment; and the effects that...
Download the full reportThe year 2022 was another challenging one. Although many acute pressures springing from COVID-19 in 2021 eased, such as rolling lockdowns, deeper problems emerged, many as a result of political, social and economic atrophy after three years of pandemic-related disruptions. As our team considered these challenges and what affected our clients most in 2022, we decided to focus our Strategic Intelligence Estimate for 2023 on the obstacles and opportunities that will impact Global Business Infrastructure in the coming year. Global Business Infrastructure...
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