This refers to the risks that an organisation is exposed to due to the behaviour of external role players such as external stakeholders, investors, suppliers, competitors, clients, governments, unions, politicians, political parties, criminals etc. For example, decisions made by governments recently, regarding lockdown regulations following COVID-19, has had a direct impact on all businesses and organisations worldwide.
We utilise individual, group and psycho-social-cultural intelligence profiles, where appropriate, aimed specifically at identifying external behavioural risks. To better understand the risks, one needs to understand the motives, goals, emotions, behavioural preferences and personality characteristics of external role players in order to predict their decisions and actions with more accuracy.
Why External Behavioural Risk Assessment?
- Mitigate against external risks such as crime, industrial espionage etc.
- Identify & manage actions of stakeholders that could indicate fraudulent action to guard against reputation damage and financial losses.
- Identify and manage actions of external role-players.
- Understand motives and decision-making processes to predict future decisions.
- Be better prepared for future decisions.
- Develop effective engagement, negotiation and influencing strategies when engaging with external role-players.
- Understand the mind and actions of criminals to put the right security measures in place.
- Detect suspicious & unwanted behaviour.
- Elicit information from suspects.
- Competitor analysis – including strengths, weaknesses, threats etc. to build your own strategies to outperform them
- Provide early warning against possible motives and actions planned by others