A capital intensive investor with a major operating profile in emerging markets sought a low profile way to augment security effectiveness for key personnel and maintain high morale and managerial effectiveness among senior members of its country teams.

The company opted for a security awareness training program with elements designed by special forces instructors for effective and sudden stress management. The business operations tailored program featured a large ration of practical exercises under controlled conditions, including high skill driver training, hostile surveillance detection, and stress performance in realistic scenarios. 

Country teams trained together with their HQ support elements.  Senior managers used the training and sessions on its margins to engage subordinates as well as promising junior staff. 

In addition to practical life skills, some managers were able to identify previously unseen strengths among colleagues.  Nearly all came away with a strong and practical sense of commitment between field teams and peers at HQ. 

A company wanted to augment a nascent business intelligence program that was isolated internally and largely based upon time-consuming manual searches of the internet.

The company began by integrating the business intelligence team with key risk acceptance areas of the company such as senior executive strategy and planning functions, capital project development, key community outreach, information disclosure and retention programs, security risk management for key personnel and at major facilities, etc. 

The new team adopted a customized tool for monitoring massive amounts of web-based material in the background, freeing the team up to expand and probe areas of interest with colleagues. 

Regular reporting, informal lines of communication and a series of trust-based relationships based on delivering for in-house colleagues under pressure established the team on a new and sustainable footing.