Based on expert discussions and intelligence insights By Benoît Grenier Strategic Advisor — Intelligence, Risk Management & Counter-Intelligence Click here for PART III PART IV The Strategic Imperative: From Intelligence Awareness to Corporate Transformation The preceding blog posts outlined the collapse of informational certainty, the erosion of attribution, the rise of synthetic environments, and the…
Based on expert discussions and intelligence insights By Benoît Grenier Strategic Advisor — Intelligence, Risk Management & Counter-Espionage Click here for PART II Part III Building the Intelligence-Enabled Enterprise: From Data Consumption to Strategic Foresight In my first two first posts I established the strategic environment in which modern leaders operate: an information ecosystem polluted…
Based on expert discussions and intelligence insights By Benoît Grenier Strategic Advisor — Intelligence, Risk Management & Counter-Espionage Click here to read Part I PART II Ten Essential Questions Every CEO Must Ask AI — and Themselves — Now The collapse of informational certainty and the geopolitical turbulence described in the previous part inevitably raise…
Based on expert discussions and intelligence insights By Benoît Grenier Strategic Advisor — Intelligence, Risk Management & Counter-Intelligence Ten essential questions every CEO must ask now PART I Leading in a World Where Truth No Longer Exists by Default Modern executives are confronted with a transformation unlike anything seen in previous economic cycles: a decisive…
Context Enterprises and institutions now operate in an environment where threats are multiple, interconnected, and accelerating: Global supply chain disruptions. Disinformation campaigns capable of destabilizing markets within hours. Increasing regulatory and environmental pressures (ESG, compliance, sanctions). Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and automation, amplifying both opportunity and risk (data exploitation, automated hybrid attacks). Intensifying media…
Executive Summary – From Background Noise to a Strategic Variable For decades, geopolitics was background noise for most business leaders. Wars, economic sanctions, diplomatic tensions — these belonged to the realm of diplomats and foreign ministries. In the corporate world, focus remained on products, customers, markets, and competitiveness. That world no longer exists. Geopolitical events…
Risks don’t knock anymore—they seep in. Through an overlooked cybersecurity flaw, an unresolved tension, or an unchecked rumour, what once seemed unlikely is now part of daily life: cyberattacks, reputational damage, disinformation, toxic work environments, political instability… In a world where threats emerge faster than teams can anticipate, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) becomes a strategic,…
Proactive Risk Management (PARM) purpose is to To be the trusted Business Risk and Vulnerability Management Advisor and partner of choice to organizations of all sizes. YOUR ORGANIZATION has spent significant money on “implementing” security and risk management measures through committees, stewardship assignments, binders of processes and glossary tools; yet, you are not achieving the…
Recently I wrote a blog post on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benoitgrenier_there-are-five-major-reasons-to-create-an-activity-7181237231678844928-NILZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Today I share more to support this post. In the article Organizational intelligence and counterintelligence https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cir.3880030109 The article by Herbert D. Clough and Robert A. Margulies, titled “The Corporate Competitive Intelligence/Counterintelligence Team: A Symbiotic Design for the Future,” explores the concept of competitive strategies and tactics…
The tragic death of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, highlights the heightened risks faced by business leaders today. This incident is a stark reminder of the importance of proactive executive protection and well-designed intelligence strategies to ensure their safety. Understanding Executive Protection Executive protection is a specialized domain designed to secure the safety of business…
