Navigating and leveraging globalization

 

A global network

International Events
Strategic Analyses and
Corporate Seminars
Regular Trends Letters
Corporate Alertness
Program
Region-related
Advisory Services
International
Advisory Boards

 

Smadja & Associates offers a range of services designed to help its clients navigate and leverage globalization through an understanding of the economic, geopolitical and social trends at play in a particular region or in relation to global issues or emerging developments . The firm creates "platforms of content" of different formats, length and focus that strengthen the client's anticipation and analysis capabilities in an increasingly volatile global context.

Smadja & Associates help its clients identify the relevant new trends, new developments, new factors and new actors on the economic social and political scene.

International Events

Of the highest international standards, these high-profile events are focused on a particular region or theme. Since its creation in 2001, Smadja & Associates has developed a well-established reputation for creating and producing large-size international events of high prestige and international profile in different parts of the world.

Strategic Analyses and Corporate Seminars

Designed to help the Top Management of the client corporation evaluate the impact and implications of specific economic, business or political new developments or to help manage new risks and opportunities. These "on call" sessions bring a new dimension to existing perceptions or evaluations, helping senior executives to put them in perspective and to corroborate or challenge existing operating assumptions.

Regular confidential trends letters

Tailored to the client's specific needs and priorities, outlining what is emerging "one inch beyond the horizon line" and the potential implications involved.

Corporate Alertness Program includes

  • Structured, outcome-oriented, brainstorming sessions, organized for the top management of client corporations. The sessions aim at evaluating how emerging global trends, and issues on the macroeconomic and geopolitical horizon impact on the client's strategies and priorities, thus making the connection with the evolving macroeconomic and geopolitical environment.
  • Analysis and assessment of new geopolitical and macroeconomic developments as they occur to help the client adjust fast to a changing environment.
  • Regional economic and geopolitical outlook analyses.
  • Special presentations to the Board or the top management on specific issues of special interest to the client corporation.

Region-related Advisory Services

  • On the political, business, economic and social scene in Europe (especially on issues related to the Euro zone, to the process of European integration and enlargement and the business and trade implications).
  • On the political, economic and business scene in East Asia (specific expertise on the economic business and political scene in China, India and Japan), on the economic trade and geopolitical developments in East Asia as a region.
  • On the political, economic and business scene in the Middle East and Gulf States.

These services rely on extensive expertise and in-depth knowledge on these regions and on the existence of a unique top-level network in the business, political and academic communities in the regions involved.

Creation and Management of International Advisory Boards

Based on a long-standing experience in bringing together top personalities into a well-focused and synergies-oriented group, Smadja & Associates helps create and manage high-level International Advisory Boards for corporations and government entities, making them a genuine "value-adding support group" for a corporation's strategy and the furthering of its reach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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