By applying threat assessments to individual client circumstances and decision-making processes, Hawk ISM provides Risk Consulting services to critically appraise and challenge client strategies for growth and expansion.

By mapping a range of threat scenarios against client capabilities & weaknesses, our Risk Intelligence in a workshop setting can provide a Consolidated Exposure Profile for the client with a process for applying risk analyses to clients’ strategic and tactical considerations.

Through the application of specific tools and generation of metrics, our Risk Consulting supports clients in quantifying and conceptualising the potential failures they could experience in different strategy domains:

• Clients are then able to refocus business strategies that are most exposed to failure;
• Revise business plans that are most sensitive to changes in assumption to develop contingency;
• Develop a heightened awareness of the risk landscape clients face

Our consulting process consists of five interactive phases:

1. Disentangle: The first step in the objective assessment is to work with clients to disentangle the external threats from the internal accepted perception or assessment of risk.
2. Organise: The second step is research and analysis of external threats, known & unknown. Hawk ISM works with clients to identify and benchmark performance and capability weaknesses which constitute the basis for the clients’ exposure to external threats. This creates a customised threat analysis and an exposure profile for the business.
3. The third step is to assess impact scenarios by playing out different threats or combinations of threats and mapping their impact to the vulnerabilities identified within the clients market and to the client.
4. By reviewing the various scenarios, Hawk supports the client in drawing conclusions and identifying priorities for revising or refining strategies and planning trajectories.
5. Through further evaluation of competitive and market intelligence, Hawk then offers recommendations for strategy development priorities and solutions that best position the clients within the context of its market, its competitors and its clients.

   
   Customised Threat Analysis

• Aim: Identification of emerging threats throughout the macro-environment to client
• Objective: Analysis of trends, scenarios and projections based on client-defined objectives
• Outcome: A comprehensive Survey of Threat
  
  Typical threat scenarios include:
  
  

• Obsolescence of Technology
• Substitution by Competing Applications
• Country Risk that threatens key clients and revenue streams
• Supply chain fragility and over-reliance on suppliers
• Competitor Activity impact in product & service development, and pricing strategies
• Acquisition and pressures for supply-side restructuring
• Commoditisation and value erosion of systems and solutions
• Industry Consolidation impact on client base
  
  Customised Assessments of Client Weaknesses
  
  

• Aim: Mapping threats against client capabilities & weaknesses
• Objective: Compile Risk Domain Scorecards ^TM and Risk Assessment Matrix
• Outcome: A Consolidated Exposure Profile for the Business

  
  Typical weakness assessments include:

• Absence of Technology Evolution Path
• Limited or Focused Geographical Scope
• Exposure to Concentration on a narrow client base
• Underdeveloped Sourcing strategy
• Strategic Partner Role Poorly Defined
• Weaknesses in Long term basis for Product or Solution Differentiation
• Financing
• Strategic or Management Myopia