RSI includes tacit knowledge workshops in its assessments when working with frontline workers, community members, or multi-sectoral collaborators. The firm uses techniques such as journey mapping, moderated storytelling, and artifact elicitation to draw out hidden insights. RSI integrates these insights into decision support tools and qualitative syntheses, enhancing the depth and relevance of its Understanding Risk methods.

RSI applies behavioral interpretation to fine-tune risk messages, ensuring they align with how different audiences process uncertainty, trust sources, and act under stress. RSI analysts incorporate framing effects, heuristics, and motivational cues to improve communication outcomes. The firm uses this method to enhance clarity, reduce misinterpretation, and support informed decision-making across sectors.

RSI facilitates workshops that guide decision-makers through uncertainty-tolerant processes. The firm uses tested frameworks and participatory tools to elicit preferences, surface assumptions, and document reasoning. RSI ensures outcomes are actionable and resilient to future information updates, strengthening both process integrity and buy-in.

RSI applies adaptive planning principles in managing complex, long-horizon risk scenarios. Through stakeholder co-design, monitoring protocol integration, and scenario planning, RSI enables its clients to create living strategies that evolve over time. The firm’s expertise ensures that adaptive elements are practical, evidence-informed, and grounded in real-world constraints.

RSI supports clients in building comprehensive and structured risk inventories, tailored to sector-specific frameworks. It uses standardized templates, taxonomies, and stakeholder input to ensure coverage and relevance. RSI’s inventories are designed for integration into ongoing risk governance and decision-support systems.

RSI designs and applies risk matrices that are customized to context-specific scales, thresholds, and decision criteria. The firm ensures consistency in scoring, clarity in definitions, and appropriate use of visual cues. RSI also provides training and validation support to ensure matrices are used as intended in client settings.

RSI performs rigorous analysis of survey data using appropriate statistical techniques and contextual interpretation. Whether analyzing perception, behavior, or system feedback, RSI integrates findings into broader assessments. Its ability to connect survey results to policy and modeling frameworks enhances the value of survey-based research in understanding risk.

RSI supports organizations in crafting trust repair messages that balance transparency, humility, and a commitment to reform. Drawing on risk communication science and crisis psychology, RSI helps clients respond constructively to reputational damage and public concern. Its approach emphasizes authenticity, stakeholder dialogue, and long-term rebuilding rather than short-term image repair.

RSI applies strategic foresight to support long-term risk management across sectors. Its team conducts trend mapping, facilitates participatory scenario development, and integrates foresight outputs into policy planning. RSI ensures that foresight exercises are grounded in evidence and tied to practical decision points, enhancing both imagination and relevance.

RSI helps clients shape convening goals by applying stakeholder analysis, issue framing, and process design expertise. Whether organizing technical workshops or policy roundtables, RSI ensures that goals are realistic, measurable, and conducive to structured risk discussion. This method supports RSI’s broader role as a trusted facilitator of cross-sector risk dialogue and contributes directly to the quality and relevance of the risk understanding that emerges from such events.