• Detecting and assessing emerging threats.
• Understanding environments (geostrategic, security, competitive, society and regulatory).
• Specifying needs and adapting defence and security solutions.
• Adapting systems and organisations.

• Monitoring.
• Strategic and prospective studies.
• Technical-operational studies.
• Change management and support for organisations.

• A multi-disciplinary team.
• A pool of available experts.
• Partnerships.
• Leadership of the strategy debate : CEIS has set up and now runs the CEIS Str@t Club, which brings together on a regular basis strategy-makers and major public and private bodies to meet with one or more public figures invited to talk about issues related to country risks, major strategic challenges and technological developments.

• Studies on new threats: terrorism and asymmetrical threats, cyber-crime, NRBC proliferation and defence.
• Studies of the evolution of French and European armed forces, capability analyses.
• Adaptation of the organisation and products of a major group to changes in defence.
• Supporting role in improvements to the way weapons programmes are conducted for the Ministry of Defence.
• Supporting role in the reform of the responsibilities of the French Chief of Defence Staff.
• Detection of needs and opportunities in the security market, and recommendations for the market.
• Detection and analysis of sustainable development issues for a stakeholder in the energy market.