Our Processes

Extrinsic provides research and intelligence analysis for organisations, with a view to reducing uncertainty and identifying opportunity.

Our expertise supports: 

• Corporate Governance and ICT Governance:
  • Investigation of opportunity and risk management;
  • Strategy development and review;
  • Implementation of strategic plans; and
  • Monitoring of business change.
• Feasibility studies and business evolution;
• Entrepreneurship and commercialisation;
• Evaluation of alternative opportunities;
• Monitoring of change within business and within the business environment; and
• Project Environments:
  • Information Management;
  • Requirements Analysis;
  • Independent Reviews; and
  • Most Probable Outcomes.

 Our processes include: 

• Research utilising:
  • Open source information (publicly accessible);
  • Internal information (from the client);
  • Non-searchable unclassified information ('deep web');
  • Academic sources (published papers, research applications); and
  • Commercial reference sources.
• Critical and unbiased thinking (hypothesis generation);
• A target-centric approach that uses models to treat:
  • The target as a complex system; and
  • Complex targets as a network of interrelated forces.
• Temporal analysis:
  • Evolution of trends versus current situation;
  • Application of Information Dynamics; and
  • Projections versus current status.