SUPPORTING CORPORATE BUSINESS IN THE CURRENT WORLD CLIMATE

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SUPPORTING CORPORATE BUSINESS IN THE CURRENT
WORLD CLIMATE

• A PSC Perspective

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There is no discipline in the world so severe as
the discipline of experience subjected to the
tests of intelligent development and direction.
John Dewey, US educator and Pragmatist
philosopher (1859 1952)
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AIM

• To set out some broad thoughts on the utility of
  private security companies to commercial
  corporations which need to operate in difficult,
  unstable and dangerous environments.

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OUTLINE

• Context the global commercial operating
  environment.
• PSC status quo.
• Commercial corporations security service
  requirements.
• Security industry response.

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CONTEXT - FACTORS

• Bottom Up
• Correlation between oil, gas, mineral resources
  and areas of instability or conflict.
• Centrifugal forces pushing commercial operators
  to the high risk peripheries.
• Hydrocarbon and mineral wealth increasingly
  viewed as nations patrimony.
• No longer enough to address the symptoms without
  addressing the causes.
• Top Down
• Corporate social responsibility.
• Human rights.
• Ethical and sustainable development.
• Economic approach to security.

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..so now what?
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WHERE ARE WE? Spot my Company
OPERATIONAL RISK TO BOTH OPERATOR AND CLIENT
Consulting Management Intelligence Analysis
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SERVICES
MARGIN
Planning Training
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Physical Asset Protection
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WHERE ARE WE GOING?
OPERATIONAL RISK TO BOTH OPERATOR AND CLIENT
Consulting Management Intelligence Analysis
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SERVICES
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Private Security Industry Dynamic?
Planning Training
Physical Asset Protection
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SUPPORTING CORPORATE BUSINESS

• Complexity of 21st Century security challenges.
• Detailed understanding of our clients business.
• Greater level of sophistication and expertise
  required.
• Learn to address the causes not just the
  symptoms.

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OUR INDUSTRY RESPONSE

• Segment the market.
• Specialise. Differentiate.
• Go beyond traditional security services.
• Package capabilities to meet developing client
  needs.
• Capability partnerships.
• In-country delivery capability.
• Hold on to the characteristics that have made us
  successful.

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CONCLUDING THOUGHT(Erinys leitmotif)
TOWARDS CONFLICT MANAGEMENT TO CREATE A SAFE
SECURE ENVIRONMENT RATHER THAN JUST SECURITY
MANAGEMENT TO WORK WTHIN AN UNSAFE AND INSECURE
ENVIRONMEMENT
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