OWP 2022: Leading For the Future

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SCALE AHEAD OF TIME A future-ready business scales new capabilities ahead of time so that it can deliver today and contain potential negative impact from unforeseen events while building the next growth engine. Reimagining and strengthening a company’s core for resilience while creating new growth is about balancing reliability and agility, building new competences, and leveraging an ecosystem of partners. BALANCE RELIABILITY AND AGILITY

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RECOMMENDED READING

WHAT IS YOUR SOLUTION? Through insights from a multi-year research project at IMD’s Center for Future Readiness, we have built a framework using tools that helps company leaders prioritize what’s important and build a future-ready strategy. We’ve benchmarked leading companies across industries to understand what choices they make, how they work, and what exceptional leaders do. In times of upheaval, these companies keep steady while ensuring they’re agile enough to adapt and, at the same time, remain able to call on their partnership networks to build new competences.

THE FUTURE READINESS INDICATOR

The Future Readiness Indicator is designed to measure a company’s readiness for deep, long-term, secular trends.

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