Our unique analytical process
Our rigorous analytical process ensures timely delivery of high-quality geopolitical and macroeconomic analysis that is generated, critiqued and edited by leading experts.
Key features:
- Daily evaluation of events in all key regions by senior experts using local media and in-country analysts
- Looks behind the news agenda, identifying key trends in predictive analysis
- Unrivalled connectivity between in-house staff, network and clients
- Delivers both quick and more considered analysis
- Documented, available and actionable assumptions.
The key elements in our analytical process are:
Morning Conference
A conference takes place each weekday morning chaired by the Director of Analysis, attended by Oxford Analytica Region Heads (mainly senior Oxford University academics), the in-house team of analysts and members of the advisory practice. Clients frequently attend.
Contributor Network
We have access to the best minds on any subject in the political economy, and the in-house expertise to turn their input into effective and insightful analysis.
About the network
News Review
Our team continually scans local and global newswire, print, broadcast and online services, filtering out the noise and determining the significance of events in the news.
Analysis and Production
Unlike many of our competitors, our in-depth analysis comes from senior external experts with years of experience directly related to the subjects on which they write.
Commissioning and writing
A contributor (or sometimes several) is selected from Oxford Analytica’s global contributor network of scholar experts to write in-depth analysis. Paragraph-length executive summaries are written in-house for new events whose significance we have already looked at, or to establish a holding view on critical events while longer analysis is undertaken.
Critiquing and editing
The in-house team of analysts, each a highly qualified expert in their field, undertakes a rigorous, yet rapid, process of quality control. This involves:
- seeking further input from external and internal experts
- ensuring editorial objectivity and analytical consistency
- and cross-referencing previous analysis from our electronic archive of nearly 25 years of the Oxford Analytica Daily Brief®.
Feedback
Once delivered to clients, we ensure that key conclusions, and reactions to those conclusions, are incorporated within the evaluation of future events.
Interactivity
Clients interact with in-house and external experts using online tools to engage in debate, ask questions and offer suggestions for further coverage.
Internal assessment
Ensuring analytical consistency, we maintain a set of rolling assumptions on political, economic, security and foreign policy issues which underpin our coverage in the Oxford Analytica Daily Brief®. These are available to clients and are updated constantly as events unfold.
