Recently named to Inc. magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing Companies, Chatsworth, California-based LinkEdge Technologies is the developer of the PointInsight™ Issue Management System, an Internet/Intranet enterprise solution tool that supports Stewart Strategies Group teams in anticipating, tracking, and leveraging the full spectrum of divergent stakeholder and marketplace issues impacting its client organizations.

With the LinkEdge partnership, SSG consultants may easily aggregate, monitor and integrate issues throughout their lifecycle within a robust application that seamlessly centralizes all of a client’s issue priorities by any number of characteristics - such as stakeholder group and their corresponding values, policy framework, brand domain and competitive universe.

The PointInsight™ system advances the supporting functionality of Stewart Strategies Group client programs in Thought Leadership, Issues Strategy and Management, and Stakeholder Values Marketing by adding an innovative technological backbone to the firm’s consulting expertise and experience. SSG clients gain an uncommon competitive advantage in the ability to identify emerging developments impacting their organization or industry, and to take strategic action from knowledge that better equips them for success.

Effective for a diversity of organization profiles, divisions, product-service domains, strategic agendas, and intra-organizational impacts, PointInsight™ supports greater speed and accuracy in resolution of unanticipated situations, the mitigation of risk, and management of crisis. SSG is also utilizing the system to help it analyze issue dynamics and improve the alignment of client agendas with the fulfillment of stakeholder aspirations, advancing the discipline of issues management beyond its historic focus on liability containment and crisis intervention.

The PointInsight™ command center, a unique dashboard interface, provides the SSG team with full visibility of all active and emerging client issues, a customized news portal, as well as a concerns module at a glance (i.e., action items, due dates, and key metrics for monitoring).

Innovation from LinkEdge Technologies’ is helping to evolve the practice of issues management in such key areas as issue identification, prioritization and impact assessment, planning and execution support, and accountability exactitude. PointInsight™ achieves these enhancements through robust scanning and early identification, a focus on high impact areas, ease of integration and communication, the leveraging of multiple resources, and thorough documentation, compliance, reporting and tracking capabilities.

Learn more about how SSG is delivering the next generation of issues strategy and management for today’s environment.