Consulting

Olive Group's Consulting division provides government and private sector clients with strategic advisory services to help manage and reduce their key non-financial risks. Our approach is focused at the senior decision-making level to enable our clients to understand their critical risks, identify priorities, and make informed choices about where to invest limited resources to manage and reduce those risks. Olive's deep experience in unstable and volatile parts of the world provides us with a unique capability to support our clients at a strategic level in these environments.

Three core areas of our work are:

• Strategic security advice: We advise governments to identify key security related risks and help develop solutions to manage them. Our perspective is wide, encompassing solutions focused on improving traditional security as well as long-term stability.Our work with industry focuses on the security system as a whole,and involves developing security policy, interface with government bodies, and crisis management planning.

• Crisis management strategy and planning: We support both government and private sector clients to develop crisis management strategy and planning. We start by examining existing strategy and organization, judging its fitness for purpose, and then developing an appropriate structure and process to embed crisis management capability. Our perspective is strategic, spanning organizational readiness, prevention, response and recovery. In this context, we develop detailed incident management plans in high value and risk areas for a client.

• Market entry strategy: Entering a new market involves sizing the opportunity and understanding and mitigating key risks to take advantage of the opportunity. We identify three types of non-financial risk factors involved in new markets - situational risk, business partner risk, and wider stakeholder relations risk. We develop a deep understanding of these risks, identify the priorities, spell out the various options for addressing them, and identify costs and benefits of each option. Our approach is not simply to reduce risks but also to enable clients to make informed investment choices that create sustainable competitive advantage in these markets.