Subject: Re: Political Risk Assessment Opportunity
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: "'Devon Archer'" <[email-masked]>, "'Hunter Biden'" <[email-masked]>, "'heinz, christopher d'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:29:53 -0500

Not sure what others think, but if this is needed in 2-3 weeks and there is no real cash benefit to Vide to do this, I think we should look at another avenue.  Speed is not their strong suit and I'd rather not ruin some of our good will with NCR if we are not confident they could do this that quickly (especially for little compensation).

Eric D. Schwerin
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On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:04 AM, Neil Callahan wrote:

> Hey guys,
>  
> As part of the India Site Consolidation project for NCR they have asked us to do a basic Political Risk Assessment impacting Hyderabad.  Basically the Telangana region (which contains Hyderabad) within the State of Andhra Pradesh is clamoring about seceding and setting up their own State.  The issue is real and seems to be gaining momentum.  NCR has 400+ people in Hyderabad and may choose to consolidate all their non-manufacturing operations there, but they are concerned about the situation and if fact their Steering Committee is 50:50 on Hyderabad, which is the leading city, because of this concern.
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> So this seems to be a text book case of a company wanting a read on political risk in order to aid in the process of making an international investment decision.
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> I am not sure where you are with Vide, but this would seem to be right in their wheelhouse (India was on the short list of countries to start with – English is one of the official languages).  It would give “Analytics” a real client to work with and then a real case study / credential to talk with other clients about.  And given the political nature of the recent security events in India/Pakistan, I’d think Vide would have some data/analytics on the region already in place vs starting from scratch with Australia as we did last fall which took a few months to create.
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> There is no significant additional money for this from NCR and we’d have to do it rather quickly (2-3 weeks).  This may be a good catalyst to get something going.
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> Think about it and give me a quick no if that’s the case so we can move to another method to complete the request.
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> Best,
>  
> Neil
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