📢Something exciting is coming up next week!
We've been working towards a collaboration with City AM, bringing you a host of information about activist campaigning & how to engage with key emerging issues.
Here's a sneak peak of Charlotte Moore, our Managing Director explain..
Few topics unite policymakers, parents, investors, and pressure groups.
But ultra-processed foods are becoming one of them and the scrutiny is no longer just about nutrition.
SIGWATCH’s new Right-Wing Pressure Monitor shows how UPFs are now a flashpoint not just for critics.
helps you understand:
✅Narratives gaining traction with right-wing actors
✅Reframing of material issues across ideological lines
✅What this means for companies' social operating license
Download our April briefing: https://t.co/Q74rMUnTx8
Companies once relied solely on advocacy to shape their regulatory environment.
But the rules of influence have changed.
Pressure campaigns are no longer background noise—they are deliberately influencing policy long before legislation hits the floor.
So if you’re only watching the official channels, you’re missing the early warning signs.
We monitor over 12,000 pressure groups globally to surface the trends and issues most likely to impact your licence to operate.
Anticipate the pressure. Stay ahead of regulation
Within it, you will find insights to:
🔵Understand how your stakeholders are being influenced.
🔵Discover how monitoring pressure campaigns can reveal hidden risks.
🔵Future-proof your business decisions and avoid crises.
Grab your copy here: https://t.co/eyKxWZJxp2
Pressure campaigns are shaping businesses’ future operating environments, and most don’t realise until it’s too late....
Influential actors such as campaigners, social movements, and activist groups are changing the way that key stakeholders feel about and interact with...
your business - from regulators to consumers, and investors to employees.
Change is happening, and it’s happening fast. What are you doing to effectively prepare?
📢 Presenting our latest white paper *Stakeholder Power: What Pressures are Shaping your Operating Environment?*
Check out our latest piece to understand:
🔵 Stakeholder pressure on business
🔵 Impact of civil society discourse on your operating environment
🔵 The predictive and strategic value of monitoring stakeholder influence
https://t.co/SMmav8AZEm
Business cannot thrive in a vacuum.
Companies are influenced by diverse stakeholders with competing priorities - from employees and consumers to investors and regulators.
Today, strategic decision-making requires corporate affairs leaders to decipher a crowded and chaotic...
information landscape to set a clear imperative. SIGWATCH's expertise and experience in analysing the powerful sway that civil society actors have on corporations helps companies decode the forces defining tomorrow.
in the face of this pressure. Instead, they need to rely on high-quality intelligence to thread the needle and keep a wide range of stakeholders happy in an increasingly polarised world."
https://t.co/23lfHpCFlO
There’s no doubt that activism is influential for businesses.
NGOs pressure your consumers, regulators, investors, other businesses, employees - all with the aim of changing the operating environment for businesses in the longer term.
With a rapidly eroding middle ground and pressure from multiple fronts, leaders in business have a valuable resource in monitoring activist campaigning.
As our Head of Research David Hamon writes, "Corporate affairs and communications leaders cannot be paralysed...
In his latest piece, our Head of Research David Hamon writes about the value of recognising the impact of activist-stakeholders in an increasingly divided society.
https://t.co/VECbCtzJqB
Business and activists have fundamentally different 'purposes' in society.
One provides goods and services to society, while the others exists to drive change - by pressuring the key stakeholders of business. Think regulators, investors, the public and politicians.
This is because, regardless of what companies think of them or their narratives, NGOs are first-mover stakeholders. They wield significant influence over your critical stakeholders and regularly alter your future operating environment.