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Environmental Scanning

Strategic Alignment has a core focus on building agile, adaptive organisational cultures and developing strategy with a long term futures perspective to enable organisations to enhance their competitive positioning. Environmental scanning is a critical part of this so we provide our clients with the knowledge, interpretive skills, processes and analytical tools to assist them identify trends, critical uncertainties, weak signals and potential wildcards for:

	Strategic planning
	Tactical management
	Managing innovation
	Managing uncertainty and risk
	Developing new markets and products
	Mergers and acquisitions
	Building organisational resilience

Now, through a new alliance with Shaping Tomorrow, a world leader in independent environmental scanning, we are able to complement our environmental scanning services by giving your managers the information they need to manage their environment. Until now, this quality of information has largely been the realm of large corporations with dedicated teams of scanners. This service puts high quality scanning information in the hands of everyone…

Combined with the knowledge, skills and tools that Strategic Alignment can provide, you will have a powerful tool for helping your organisation respond more quickly than your competitors to opportunities and threats. Alternatively, you may commission us to undertake a scan for you and incorporate it into your planning processes.

Shaping Tomorrow’s database engine statistically analyses this information and through their interface identifies trends, potential blind spots and makes sense of the mass of information available. Everything is designed for ease of use and customisation for your industry through easy-to-read visual representation of results and cross-tabulation.

You can very rapidly follow the big picture, identify the earliest indicators of changes in your industry or profession and view this anywhere you have an Internet connection.

1.	Insights – an intelligence service that allows you to screen your own areas of interest from an eclectic collection of over 13,750 topics at the most cost-effective rates.
2.	Sources – provides access to a more focused collection of 4,750 selected mainstream and innovative fringe sources.
3.	Blind spots - a classified blind spots listing of 1,931 clustered global and regional trends, uncertainties and wildcards that you can use to quickly create mental pictures of the external environment for strategic thinking.
4.	Scanning – Allows you to conduct your own continuous trend spotting for new ideas, possible blind spots and future thinking. A customised portal is available for your company.
5.	Sense-making – provides the highest level of analysis and flexibility through a fully customisable corporate portal.

To find out more about how you can significantly enhance your environmental scanning capability and competitive intelligence, contact us at Strategic Alignment.