It is easy to say that
we are living in a world of increasing rates of change. Yet every society
in history whose records we can access felt the same. Today people point
to the torrent of new introductions in technology, communications, legislation,
and all the accompanying noise of promotion, review and commentary. Yet
for all this froth and foam, there is a deeper current of constancy.
This lies in the way we as people act, think, feel and relate to each other.
We are talking about the struggles each society, generation and organisation
grapples with - the tensions between community and self, power and passivity,
caring and crime.
The collapse of the Soviet Union changed the then known world dramatically,
yet few anticipated, in the face of a prevailing euphoria, the more volatile
world which would accompany the post-Cold War globalisation and localisation.
A new environment, conducive to greater organised criminality and to more
extreme manifestations of terrorism, has emerged and solidified.
Here is the dilemma. If every situation looks and feels different, how can
you be anything other than reactive to it?. One of the answers lies in business
security planning. Understanding what is really going on at deeper levels,
and recognising distractions and distortions from underlying realities.
For every seemingly fresh idea and perspective, there are precedents, variations
of long-established behaviours and responses, which can be identified. Through
the eyes of intelligent business security planning, greed, corruption, mistrust,
dishonesty, selfishness and unwitting errors are just some of the negative
things we see in new guises as each society and community shapes itself
around rising and falling ethical standards.
It is through working to have a deeper understanding of how the behaviour
of those around us is driven by religious, social, cultural and economic
differences that we are able to identify and separate new forms and fashions
from underlying attitudes and behaviour. By understanding motivations we
can design better security management capabilities.
In
essence, we believe that successful business security planning and security
management cannot be taken out of the core context of people's lives, and
the places they live and work in.
It is fundamentally a human activity. Security without this context of connectedness
is about as useful as trying to choose clothes for someone whose size and
gender you don't know anything about.
While understanding alone cannot deliver 100% foresight, it does support
and enable us to translate insights into substantial risk reduction strategies
and sustainable solutions, for a broad spectrum of environments.
We can show you how this approach has allowed us to save lives and other
key assets in some of the world's most challenging environments.
How we identify, analyse, and think about ways to respond to security challenges
is a key proprietary facet of our approach, and will always be tailored
to issues as they arise, in what we call their deep context.
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