What's top of mind for CEOs in the post-US election landscape: CEOs are dealing and concerned with 10 different categories based on our global interview series
Demand & Shift of Customer Behavior
1
Anticipate shifting demand, track customer sentiment, identify growth opportunities, and tailor your approach to meet specific customer needs.
Building the "New" Future — Capabilities
2
Understand future capability requirements and broaden your skill base, while developing tech and building agility to seize opportunities and create new routes to market.
Future Investments & Smart CAPEX
3
Identify new investment opportunities, strengthen scenario-based planning, build operational resilience, and optimize environmental CapEx, while targeting growth in China and emerging markets.
Deglobalization & Decoupling of the Supply Chain
4
Develop supply chain resilience and strategic flexibility to meet volatility. Engage better with suppliers and customers, scale your capacity, and de-risk and segment your supply chain.
Power in Strategic Partnerships
5
Create new partnerships and develop flexible and resilient partnerships to meet uncertainty and mitigate risks. Develop strategic innovation alliances and dynamic future growth-focused partnerships.
AI Sourcing & Tech Adaptation
6
Invest in AI while adapting your business model to reflect its innovation potential. Optimize your regulatory approach, mitigate geopolitical threats, and use AI innovation to remain competitive.
Restructuring & Cost Optimization
7
Adapt to evolving workforce structures and technologies, enhance cost-discipline and support functions, streamline portfolios, assess operational footprints, and develop lean operating models.
(de) Regulation & Policy Dynamics
8
Improve industry-wide competitiveness through engagement, navigate regulatory shifts and adapt strategies, identify local investment opportunities, and anticipate trends to leverage a competitive advantage.
Rethinking ESG & Climate Ambitions
9
Position environmental strategy and develop flexibility to find new opportunities amid shifting government aims. Understand sustainability, define appetite, rebalance commitments, and build supply chain resilience.
The Realm of Tariffs
10
Adapt to tariffs to maintain profitability and manage overcapacity, understand tariff impact on costs and exports to adapt your business model and optimize strategic partnerships.