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Applying Our Services
The tailored services offered by SAM are structured to help you identify and secure your strategic and operational requirements during incremental stages of evaluating, penetrating, and operating in foreign markets.
SAM can provide you services whether you are considering or currently engaged in the following courses of action:
- Market Identification and Assessment
- Market Penetration and Operational Momentum
- Strategic Positioning / Repositioning
- Partnerships, Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Establishing Operations in a Foreign Market
- Development of Corporate Capabilities
- Cross-Border Logistics
- Brand Protection
- Project and Contract Management
- Performance Monitoring and Evaluation
Market Identification and Assessment
If you are considering the benefits of operating in a foreign market or require actionable intelligence about specific aspects affecting your international operations, SAM can offer you a customized package of support services.
The services that are commonly requested at this stage include:
- Strategic Forecasting
- Political Risk Assessment
- Socio-Political Analysis
- Market Intelligence
- Competitive Intelligence
- Partner Intelligence
- Hidden Risk Factors
Utilizing an established methodology of collecting and collating relevant data, we will translate our findings into succinct analysis, forecasting and scenario development that can be used to help determine whether or not your target market is or remains amenable to your strategic and operational needs.
Market Penetration and Operational Momentum
After you have made the decision to penetrate an identified foreign market, SAM can tailor a support package that focuses on providing you with specific timely information and actionable intelligence that will help you make strategic and operational decisions about the most efficient route of penetration and/or how best to maintain the momentum of your operations.
The decisions you ultimately make about the way in which you enter a market and the partners you choose will have a direct impact on your potential for success. SAM therefore will provide you with a custom-tailored package of services that will help you drive penetration forward - minimizing your risks to optimize your success.
Some common services applied during these phases include:
- Research and Investigations
- Corporate Responsibility Investigations
- Ad Hoc Services (i.e. monitoring)
- Threat and Vulnerability Assessment
- Countermeasures
- Project Planning
- Monitoring
- Cross-Border Management
Strategic Positioning and Repositioning
'Strategic Positioning' is an essential component of expanding your business opportunities while continuously differentiating you from the competition. Periodic reviews of internal strengths and weakness and external threats and opportunities enable you to build a clear view of how potential challenges to growth can be avoided.
In order to help you review your market position and recommend strategies that will help you overcome any emerging barriers to success or take advantage of emerging opportunities, SAM can offer the following services:
- Competitor Intelligence
- Market Intelligence
- Partner Intelligence
- Threat Analysis
- Commercial Counter-Terrorism
- Research and Investigations
- Ad Hoc Services
Partnerships, Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
Exploring the full benefits of market growth by entering new economies is a common strategy used by commercial entities to expand their business portfolios. In the absence of certain skill sets or past performance in establishing foreign operations in specific environments (i.e. post-conflict), SAM can help you develop the relationships required to realize your growth potential.
Past case studies of businesses penetrating foreign markets has shown the potential benefits of forming Partnerships, Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances. Clients often seek relationships for a variety of reasons, which include:
- To share risk in an unknown market;
- To gain access to complementary resources;
- To influence industry standards;
- To penetrate a target market before a competitor does;
- To strategically position oneself in order to exploit future opportunities; and,
- To reduce overall transition costs.
In order to help our clients reduce the costs of operating in a new environment or increase their resources to ensure successful market penetration, SAM can offer the following support:
- Market Intelligence
- Partner Identification and Intelligence
- Partner Profiling
- Supplemental Due Diligence
- Project Planning (i.e. Alliance Design)
- Project Management (i.e. Alliance Management)
- Cross-Border Management
Mergers and Acquisitions
Economic globalization has brought significant opportunities and challenges. In highly competitive markets, whether located in stable or emerging economies, achieving successful penetration and sustainability may require that you undertake a strategic merger and/or acquisition.
If you are seeking to penetrate a foreign market, expand your presence or enhance your capabilities in a foreign market by undertaking a strategic acquisition or merger, SAM has the capabilities and expertise to guide you through potential risks associated with a process that is made especially arduous in transitional, high-risk or unknown markets. Our assistance can come in many forms, including:
- Profiling
- Partner Intelligence
- Supplemental Due Diligence
- Research and Investigations
Establishing Operations in a Foreign Market
If you are an institution or non-governmental organization seeking to establish operations in a foreign market, SAM can offer you a tailored package of services that will help you:
- Gain a strategic overview and detailed knowledge regarding the current political environment, nodes of power and community dynamics that are likely to impact your pending presence.
- Develop a project plan that incorporates a pragmatic approach to security, focused on enabling you to approach and enter a target community without alienating or upsetting your project stakeholders.
- Develop Strategic Alliances with community leaders, establishing a support network that will ultimately affect your ability to conduct your project goals in a manner that will help define your success.
- Monitor the impact of your presence on the economic, political and social balance of the community and country in which you are operating. This will ultimately provide you with the ability to constantly reposition yourself in order to continue securing your project mandate.
- Monitor the impact your presence has on pre-identified and potential adversaries.
- Gauge the pragmatic nature of your vulnerability to adversaries and establish a security regime that protects your project infrastructure and personnel without alienating the broader community.
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and impact of your project on the local community.
SAM services commonly utilized for institutional clients seeking to establish foreign operations include:
- Strategic Forecasting
- Political-Risk Assessment
- Socio-Political Analysis
- Partner Intelligence
- Supplemental Due Diligence
- Profiling
- Threat and Vulnerability Assessment
- Countermeasures
- Project Planning
- Monitoring and Evaluation
Development of Corporate Capabilties
Although SAM is organized to perform key services to our clients, an integral driver of our long-term strategy is to help our clients develop or refine their own internal corporate capabilities.
Building a Strategic Alliance with you allows us to continue providing you access to SAM's unique skill sets and support structures, while providing you the required training to duplicate certain generic processes. This allows you to conduct ongoing cursory scans of your target markets, enabling you to have a direct impact on the security of your strategic and operational interests.
The capabilities that SAM can help you build include:
- Strategic Research
- Due Diligence
- Competitive Intelligence
Cross-Border Logistics
Whether you rely on supply chains in order to move your products globally or move specific assets into a target market in order to conduct your core business, SAM can support you in building or managing your cross-border logistics in an efficient and secure manner.
The process we utilize to help you with cross-border logistics includes conducting routing assessments, incorporating a security plan and implementing the associated supply chain. Although SAM can help you devise a complete cross-border logistics capability, we can also help you during any stage of development or operation. Services we apply to help in this context include:
- Political-Risk Assessment
- Socio-Political Analysis
- Threat Analysis
- Partner Intelligence
- Supplemental Due Diligence
- Threat and Vulnerability Assessment (i.e. of selected transportation routes)
- Training
- Commercial Counter-Terrorism
- Cross-Border Management
Brand Protection
One of the most important assets of any company operating in the global market is its brand. An unprotected brand - vulnerable to the threat of counterfeiting, product diversion and/or tampering and theft - may risk your reputation, customer loyalty, revenue and liability.
Given the importance of securing your brand, SAM will help you identify and protect your points of vulnerability as it pertains to your brand security. We will help you do so by employing a custom-designed approach, which may apply services such as:
- Socio-Political Analysis
- Threat and Vulnerability Assessment
- Research and Investigations
- Ad Hoc Services
The focus of applying our services to brand protection is that we are able to measure your strategic operations (i.e. how your product travels through the manufacturing, supply and distribution chain) against our knowledge base of global counterfeiting trends and vulnerable transshipment points.
Project and Contract Management
Conducting project management in high-risk and complex environments has pre-conditioned SAM to help you define and achieve your project and/or contractual objectives while optimizing costs, quality, manpower and time - all while reducing exposure to risk.
SAM provides a unique approach to Project and Contract management that provides you with a service that:
- Is scaleable
- Offers access to targeted recruitment
- Provides full service and sub-contractor integration
- Provides local market knowledge (intelligence)
- Continuously incorporates monitoring and evaluation
- Incorporates on the ground experience and capabilities
Performance Monitoring and Evaluation
SAM treats Performance Monitoring and Evaluation as integral management tools for the successful implementation of your project.
SAM provides a procedure that allows you to be in control of the project at any given time and have the ability to intervene accordingly to ensure a professional approach to the completion of the project. This is achieved by SAM offering:
- a continuous flow of intelligence enhanced by knowledge of and contacts on the ground
- a Project Management capability
- a simultaneous 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' movement of information and communication
- the incorporation of all relevant indicators throughout the progress of the project