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APPLIED RESEARCH
You have questions and you need answers - we help by undertaking targeted inquiries, and generating evidentiary corpora, analytical insights, tangible products and documents of record that you can use.
SERVICE EXAMPLES:
✓ Strategy & requirements identification
✓ Collection planning & management
✓ Actor and landscape mapping
✓ Source & channel evaluation
✓ Data cleaning, preparation & exploitation
✓ Identifying connections, patterns and insights
CAPACITY BUILDING
You want to know how to do it yourself - we help by auditing your operations, pinpointing areas for improvement, developing training curricula, delivering skill-building workshops, and getting you to where you want to be.
SAMPLE COMPETENCIES:
✓ Foundations of evidence-based inquiry
✓ Structured research & intelligence methods
✓ Analyst tradecraft development
✓ Technology-assisted research
✓ Scenario-based applied exercises
✓ Programme design & mentorship
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
You need back-up to get it done - we help by augmenting your operations, as external advisors and mentors providing independent advice, and as research adjuncts or embeds filling in-house shortfalls in expertise or surge capacity.
SERVICE EXAMPLES:
✓ Advisory & mentoring
✓ Proposal & research design
✓ Analysis & report drafting
✓ Executive sound boarding
✓ Independent quality control
✓ External review
Delivery Options
A base of evidence
Properly acquired, preserved and validated information is the foundation of credible, evidence-led activity.
KEY FEATURES:
✥ Preserved in its original form
✥ Traceable to its point of origin
✥ Sorted and organised to maximise utility
✥ Converted to usable media format
✥ Protected to ensure long-term viability
Tangible Benefits
Documents of record
A vault of clear, well-written indexes, summaries, analytical reports, case files and briefing materials.
PROVEN BENEFITS:
✥ Demonstrable legal compliance
✥ Evidence of certification-ready standards
✥ Showcase for organisational maturity
✥ A bank of intellectual property
✥ A library of reference materials
Deployable products
In ready-to-use formats and datasets for integration into decision cycles and workflows.
ILLUSTRATIVE USES:
✥ Defensible arguments / advocacy
✥ Technology-assisted data exploitation
✥ Maps, models and other visual referents
✥ Briefs, presentations, & position papers
✥ Reports to boards and shareholders