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3. trends Identify the trends and convergence of ideas over time. Potential M&A? Emerging risks and threats to your business? What are the competition doing? Where is the next market opportunity?

4. Area of circle represents the volume of mentions for given point in time The higher up the Y Axis the circle is, the more significant the topic is(determined by a software algorithm). Convergence means the two topics are being mentioned together

5. This is a recent example tracked over some months and annotated by dated events.

6. network analysis Are ideas, people, insights and organisations connected? Interrogate the diagram – analyze the underlying documents Zoom in on a few concepts of interest Understand what’s really going on behind the results

7. Network: mentions of oil companies and African countries/cities

8. Network: mentions of mining companies and African countries/cities

9. data analysis How are two concepts related quantitatively? Take any two concepts from the analysis What is the numerical relationship between them? Interrogate each chart element to see data

10. Chart: mentions of Iranian Navy and key maritime areas

11. Chart: oil companies & African countries/cities

12. Chart: shipping companies and Iranian Oil

13. Chart: mentions of oil companies and negative KPI indicators

14. Chart: Al Shabaab attack methods

15. Cartography & tracking ‘weak signals’ What signals should you watch? Track faint indicators of change Be prepared to neutralise risks early Anticipate opportunities before your competition

16. Software will analyse all relevant documents and attempt to cluster common concepts. Watching the development of weak signals (bottom left quadrant) is key to anticipating future change

17. Clicking on the cluster from previous slides brings up network of relationships. Documents relating to any combination of the network can be called up and analysed further if required. COMMENT: Note the absence of any identified link between RAFF and Frack Off at this stage.

18. … and more What else can we offer you? Social media monitoring and analysis Integration of Facebook and Twitter Search and analysis your own internal databases Ethical and timely open source intelligence Pre-employment screening Due diligence

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