Subject: Re: Political Risk Assessment Opportunity
From: "Christopher Heinz" <[email-masked]>
To: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>, "Devon Archer" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 06:24:29 -0800

We are just spooling up and focusing on our Alcoa pitch, so I am not sure we
should derail the momentum.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Eric Schwerin
<[email-masked]>wrote:

> 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).
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>  On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:04 AM, Neil Callahan wrote:
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>   Hey guys,
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> 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,
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> Neil
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