Intervening when understanding the players, the balance of power and the environment is decisive. We mobilise the stakeholders who matter, within a value-creating network. We organise dialogue with influence players. To build controlled relationships, we clarify the role our clients intend to play in their ecosystem, and we strengthen their positioning and their image. We identify the factors that accelerate and support their business model.
Your project depends on a decision, a balance of power or a reputation? SHIGAN organises dialogue with influence players, in Paris and internationally.
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We organise the dialogue between your organisation and public institutions, from the first contact to the follow-up of decisions.
We organise the dialogue between your organisation and government institutions.
We connect the economic players who matter for your project.
We carry your position to those who decide, through dialogue, the media and events.
We build your voice and image with decision-makers, opinion-makers and the media.
We design events that bring together the players you want to convince.
We create and run structures that carry a position in the public debate.
We run reputation and risk management campaigns for governments, in their countries and abroad.
Each engagement adapts these steps to the file, its actors and its timetable. We agree the role of each party and the expected deliverables at the first conversation.
Support to the executive of a group developing a major hydroelectric project in Central Africa, facing strong reputational challenge and the mobilisation of many stakeholders. SHIGAN built and rolled out an integrated strategy combining mapping of players and power relationships, influence communications, media relations in Africa and Europe, the executive's public speaking and the creation of spaces for dialogue with stakeholders. The aim: re-establish the facts, reposition the project in its economic, social and environmental context, bring forward credible relays and recreate the conditions for dialogue with institutional, diplomatic, economic and civil society players.
Support to a leading player in the Caucasus wine and spirits sector, facing the reputational and commercial consequences of a suspicion of cross-border fraud over the origin of spirits exported to Europe. SHIGAN designed an influence strategy combining analysis of the circuits and the players, identification and support of investigative journalists, media relations in France and Europe, content production and monitoring of reactions and counter-narratives. The work brought the subject into the European public debate, notably in a major French spirits-producing region, and made a complex file intelligible to the media and to institutional stakeholders.
'Support to an international operator working with an African state on the modernisation, securing and recovery of control of its sovereign airspace. SHIGAN helped build an influence strategy combining positioning, messages, stakeholder mapping, institutional relations and communication with authorities, airlines and international sector bodies. The challenge was to make the concrete benefits of the project understood (safety, transparency, efficiency, public revenue and economic development) while anticipating the political and institutional resistance that comes with a transformation touching national sovereignty. The strategy relied on operational evidence, credible relays and tangible results rather than an abstract technological discourse.'
Support to a collective of Ukrainian journalists facing the closure of several national media, in a particularly sensitive political and geopolitical context. SHIGAN designed and coordinated a European strategy combining reframing of the debate, stakeholder mapping, production of an independent legal expertise, media relations, mobilisation of experts and civil society organisations, public events and outreach to European institutional players. The programme was deployed in several capitals, notably Paris, Brussels, Berlin and London, with the aim of allowing journalists and legal experts to carry the subject themselves in the European debate on media freedom and pluralism.
A public consultation is not an online form. It is the moment when the options are still open, and when an argued contribution can still move a decision.
Since the 2021 interinstitutional agreement, the EU transparency register is no longer an optional directory. For an organisation that wants to shape policy, registration has become a condition of access.
Since 2017, interest representatives in France must declare their activity to an independent authority. What that obligation changes, and what it leaves open.
Public affairs is the management of relations between an organisation and public decision-makers, institutions and the actors who influence a public decision. It covers monitoring, stakeholder mapping, positioning and dialogue.
Government relations is the ongoing dialogue with institutions and their representatives: presenting a position, understanding their constraints, building common ground and following decisions.
SHIGAN clarifies the role you want to play, maps the actors and decisions, prepares arguments and leads dialogue with the people who count. We work from strategic advice to operations.
SHIGAN advises governments, institutions and companies on sensitive issues and reputation. Each engagement is framed by the applicable rules and by the client's own obligations.
SHIGAN works in France and internationally, with partner firms depending on the file. Engagements with the EU institutions are considered case by case.
A first conversation is enough to know whether this engagement matches what you are looking for.
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