IMD Annual Report 2019

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In 2019, IMD Pathfinder initiatives continued to support organizations around the world as they transform to successfully compete in fast-changing markets. Through a unique combination of organizational transformation, academic expertise in challenging executives rather than implementing pre-defined answers, a focus on business, andexpertise inadvisoryservices, IMD partners with senior leaders to successfully navigate their most pressing business challenges in an increasingly dynamic global economy. With Pathfinder, IMD engages with senior leaders from organizations around the world in a journey to identify opportunities and address critical challenges to accelerate growth and shape the future. The focus of these journeys is to balance the often conflicting challenge of how organizations can continue to deliver results today, while exploring opportunities and planning for the future. Through the IMD Pathfinder integrative and rigorous approach, IMD engages with clients’ leadership and their

organizations globally, to co- create a process that challenges leaders’ assumptions and shapes their thinking by listening to the organization – not just looking at data – and building on combined inputs from within and outside their business As a result, clients co-create a strategy and roadmap owned across business areas and geographies, which accelerates engagement and execution. By generating alignment and collective ownership, IMD drives individual, business and organizational impact. What is IMD Pathfinder ? Faced with disruptive challenges of today and tomorrow, organizations are under pressure to deliver growth from their core businesses, while, at the same time, preparing for a futurewhere those core businesses may no longer be as viable or profitable because of sweeping changes in the global economy. As a result, companies are seeking to build capabilities to explore and transition to new business models that will capture future growth and opportunities, while simultaneously maintaining their legacy businesses in a sustainable way.